Primetime Ratings: ‘This Is Us’ Paces NBC
NBC won top prize in Tuesday prime ratings, This Is Us leading the net to a 1.4 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. That beat the 1.0/5 put up by CBS.
The Voice got a flat 1.5 on NBC and This Is Us lost 11% from its season premiere at 1.7, before New Amsterdam slid 18% to 0.9.
CBS had NCIS at a level 1.3, FBI up 11% to 1.0 and NCIS: New Orleans at a flat 0.7.
ABC and Fox both scored a 0.8/4. ABC had The Conners down 15% at 1.1 while Bless This Mess, Mixed-ish, Black-ish and Emergence all did a 0.7. Bless lost 13%, Mixed-ish slid 22%, Black-ish was flat and Emergence dropped 13%. All premiered last week.
On Fox, The Resident got a 0.7 and Empire a 0.9. Both lost a tenth of a point.
Telemundo and Univision both scored a 0.4/2. Telemundo had Exatlon Estados Unidos and El Final Del Paraiso at flat 0.4s and No Te Puedes Esconder at 0.3.
On Univision, La Rosa de Guadalupe got a 0.4 and La Usurpadora a 0.5, both flat. El Dragon posted a 0.4.
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The CW did a 0.1/1, with the two-hour Pandora finale eating up all of prime. It was flat with last week.
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.