Primetime Ratings Tuesday: CBS on Top With ‘NCIS’

Pictured: Mark Harmon as NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs
(Image credit: Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS)

CBS had the winning score in Tuesday prime, with NCIS pacing the net to the title. CBS rated a 0.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. In second was ABC at 0.6/4. 

NCIS got a 0.9, up from last week’s 0.8 and 0.7 double run. FBI shot up 33% from its last airing to 0.8 and FBI: Most Wanted grew 20% to 0.6. 

ABC had the premiere of To Tell the Truth at 0.6. On a new night, Black-ish and the season premiere of Mixed-ish both got a 0.6, Black-ish growing 50%. Big Sky did a flat 0.6. 

Fox had a 0.5/3. The Resident posted a 0.6 and Prodigal Son a 0.4, The Resident up a tenth and Prodigal Son down a tenth. 

Telemundo and Univision both notched a 0.4/2. Telemundo had the season starter for Exatlon Estados Unidos at 0.4. The premieres of La Suerta de Loli and Buscando a Frida both got a 0.4. 

On Univision, Vencer El Desamor did a 0.5 and Imperio de Mentiras a 0.4. Dulce Ambicion scored a 0.3. All three were level with last week. 

NBC scored a 0.3/2. Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist went up 25% to 0.5. After a This Is Us rerun, Nurses got a flat 0.2. 

The CW rated a 0.1/0. Two Sentence Horror Stories and Trickster both scored a flat 0.1. 

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.