Primetime Ratings: Nearly 10.5 Million Watch ‘Good Wife’ Finale
ABC and CBS split the spoils on a soft night for broadcast TV, both putting up a 1.0 in adults 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, with a 4 share. NBC and Fox did 0.9/3s.
The series finale of The Good Wife rated a 1.2 on CBS, up 20%, with 10.47 million total viewers. Before that, 60 Minutes and Madam Secretary both rated a flat 1.0. Elementary closed out prime with a 0.7, down a tenth.
ABC had America’s Funniest Home Videos at 1.2, down a tenth, then Once Upon a Time at a flat 1.2. The Family was at 0.7 and Quantico at 0.9—both down a tenth.
NBC’s Little Big Shots rated a 1.3, down 19%, and The Carmichael Show slid 20% to a 0.8. Crowded rated a 0.7, down a tenth, and Dateline was a flat 1.0.
Fox’s Bordertown scored a flat 0.4 before a Simpsons repeat, then a new Simpsons did a 1.1, down 17%. Bob’s Burgers was down 9% at 1.0, and Family Guy was off 7% to 1.3. The Last Man on Earth tallied a flat 0.9.
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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.