Primetime Ratings Thursday: Fox, ABC, CBS Split Win

Pat Sajak, Drew Carey
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ABC, CBS and Fox shared the Thursday ratings crown. All three scored a 0.6 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, with a 4 share. ABC had game shows, CBS had comedies and Fox had Hell’s Kitchen

Just behind the pace was NBC at 0.5/3. 

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune did a 0.8 on ABC and The Chase a 0.6, before the finale of The Hustler got a 0.4. All three were level with last week.

CBS had Young Sheldon at 0.9 and B Positive at 0.7, Sheldon up a tenth and B Positive down a tenth. Mom got a flat 0.6 and The Unicorn grew a tenth to 0.5. Clarice got a flat 0.4. 

On Fox, Hell’s Kitchen lost 14% for a 0.6. Call Me Kat got a 0.5 and Last Man Standing a 0.4, the comedies flat. 

NBC had Mr. Mayor and Superstore at 0.4, Mayor down a tenth and Superstore flat, and Law & Order: SVU down 14% to 0.6. A Dateline NBC rerun closed down prime. 

Univision scored a 0.4/3 and Telemundo a 0.3/2. On Univision, Vencer El Desamor did a 0.5, up a tenth from the night before (Univision had Premio Lo Nuestra Awards across prime the week before), and Te Acuerdas De Mi and Dulce Ambicion both got a flat 0.3. 

On Telemundo, Exatlon Estados Unidos, La Suerte De Loli and Buscando A Frida all tallied a 0.3. Exatlon was flat with last Thursday while the other two grew a tenth apiece. 

The CW tallied a 0.1/1 with reruns of Walker and Legacies

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.