Primetime Ratings: ‘This Is Us’ Up But Can’t Beat Baseball

Fox won the Tuesday ratings race, the World Series opener pacing the net to a 2.9 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 13 share. In second was NBC at 1.2/6.

Nationals-Astros took up all of Fox’s prime. Last year’s opener, Red Sox versus Dodgers, did a 3.5 and 14 share.

NBC had The Voice at a flat 1.3, This Is Us went up 7% to 1.6 and New Amsterdam grew 13% to 0.9.

CBS did a 0.9/4 and ABC a 0.8/3. CBS had NCIS at a level 1.1 and FBI lost 11% for a 0.8. NCIS: New Orleans scored a flat 0.7.

On ABC, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown did a 1.2, up a tenth from last year, and Toy Story of Terror a 1.0, up 25% from last year. Mixed-ish and Black-ish both scored a 0.7, Mixed-ish flat and Black-ish up a tenth. Special The Douglas Dynasty was good for a 0.5.

Telemundo posted a 0.5/2 and Univision got a 0.4/2. On Telemundo, it was 0.5s for Exatlon Estados Unidos, El Final Del Paraiso and El Senor de Los Cielos. Exatlon was up a tenth and El Final flat, while El Senor lost 29%.

Univision had 0.4s for La Rosa de Guadalupe, Cuna de Lobos and El Dragon. La Rosa lost a tenth and Cuna de Lobos and El Dragon were flat.

The CW scored a 0.4/2. The Flash got a 0.5 and Arrow a 0.3, both dramas flat. 

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.