Primetime Ratings: ‘Titan Games’ Lifts NBC to Thursday Title

NBC got top spot in Thursday prime ratings, with The Titan Games leading to a 1.5 in viewers 18-49, according to Nielsen’s overnights, and a 6 share. That beat the 1.3/6 put up by CBS.

The Dwayne Johnson competition series Titan Games premiered to a 1.8 from 8 to 10 p.m., while The Blacklist opened to a 0.9, down 18% from its fall 2017 premiere.

On CBS, The Big Bang Theory rated a 2.2 and Young Sheldon a 1.7, both shows up a tenth of a point from their last fresh airings, and they led into repeats of the two comedies. SWAT closed out prime up 29% at 0.9.

ABC got a 0.7/3. Comedy reruns led into special The Last Days of John F. Kennedy Jr. at 0.7 from 9 to 11 p.m.

Fox was at 0.6/3. Gotham premiered at 0.7 after it opened to a 1.0 in fall 2017, and The Orville fell 54% from its season premiere to a 0.6.

Telemundo and Univision both rated a 0.4/2.

The CW rated a 0.2/1 with repeats of Supernatural 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.