Primetime Ratings: ‘Thursday Night Football’ Down on Fox
Fox got top spot in Thursday prime ratings, Thursday Night Football giving the net a 2.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 12 share. That easily topped the 0.9/4 that ABC averaged.
Redskins versus Vikings took up Fox’s prime. The rating fell 10% from last week’s game, Chiefs versus Broncos.
On ABC, Grey’s Anatomy went up 8% to 1.3 and A Million Little Things grew 29% to 0.9. How to Get Away With Murder scored a level 0.5.
CBS did a 0.7/4 and NBC a 0.6/3. CBS had Young Sheldon up 22% to 1.1 and The Unicorn up 14% to 0.8. Mom got a 0.8 and Carol’s Second Act a 0.7, both flat. Drama Evil lost 29% for a 0.5. CBS has renewed Evil for a second season.
On NBC, Superstore did a 0.8 and Perfect Harmony a 0.4, both flat. The Good Place scored a level 0.6 and the season starter for Will & Grace a 0.5. Law & Order: SVU grew 17% to 0.7.
Telemundo scored a 0.5/2 and Univision a 0.4/2. On Telemundo, Exatlon Estados Unidos and El Final Del Paraiso did 0.5s and El Senor de los Cielos a 0.6. All three were up a tenth from the night before.
On Univision, La Rosa de Guadalupe shot up 25% to 0.5 and Cuna de Lobos and El Dragon did flat 0.4s.
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The CW rated a 0.3/1. Supernatural did a 0.3 and Legacies a 0.2, both dramas flat.
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.