Primetime Ratings: ‘NCIS’ Leads Way For CBS
CBS won the ratings race Tuesday, a soft night for the Nielsens, as NCIS led the net to a 0.9 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That squeaked by the 0.8/4 that ABC posted.
No network reached a 1.0 on the night.
NCIS got a 1.1 and FBI a 0.9, both dramas flat, then NCIS: New Orleans grew 17% to 0.7.
ABC had American Housewife at 0.8 and The Kids Are Alright at 0.7, then Black-ish at 0.8, all three comedies up a tenth of a point. The premiere of Bless This Mess, about a New York City couple that moves to a farm, popped a promising 0.9, a 50% gain over last week’s Splitting Up Together closer. Lake Bell and Dax Shepard are in the cast. The Rookie finale went up 17% to 0.7.
NBC did a 0.7/3 and Fox a 0.6/3.
On NBC, The Voice fell 17% to 1.0 and The Village was a level 0.6. New Amsterdam slid 14% to 0.6.
On Fox, MasterChef Junior got a flat 0.7 and Mental Samurai dropped 17% to 0.5.
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The CW got a 0.4/2, with The Flash at 0.6 and Roswell, New Mexico at 0.3, both north a tenth of a point.
Telemundo also posted a 0.4/2 while Univision rated a 0.3/2.
Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.