Primetime Ratings: ‘Roseanne’ Opens Huge on ABC

ABC was the easy winner in Tuesday prime ratings, scoring a 2.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and an 11 share. ABC’s one-hour premiere of rebooted Roseanne did a 5.1, and had 18.2 million total viewers.

CBS and NBC were the runners-up at 1.1/5.

After Roseanne, ABC saw Black-ish up a massive 136% to 2.6 and the premiere of Splitting Up Together at 2.2. Drama For the People went up 50% to 0.9.

On CBS, NCIS was down 7% to 1.3 and Bull a flat 1.2. NCIS: New Orleans fell 10% to 0.9.

On NBC, The Voice slipped 24% to 1.6. Rise dropped 27% to 0.8 and Chicago Med was down 17% for a 1.0.

Fox was at 0.5/2, with a Lethal Weapon repeat, then LA to Vegas at a flat 0.6 and The Mick down a tenth of a point at 0.6.

Univision rated a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/2.

The CW did a 0.3/1. A repeated The Flash led into a new Black Lightning at a flat 0.5.

Michael Malone

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.