Primetime Ratings Tuesday: ‘This Is Us’ Down But NBC Still Prevails
‘The Resident’ and ‘Prodigal Son’ start seasons on Fox
NBC got the win in Tuesday ratings on a soft night for broadcast. Thanks to This Is Us, NBC got a 0.6 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, ahead of the 0.5/3s put up by ABC, CBS and Fox.
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist did a 0.4 on NBC and This Is Us a 0.9, both down a tenth of a point. Nurses gained a tenth for a 0.4.
ABC had the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
CBS had reruns.
On Fox it was the season premieres of The Resident at 0.6 and Prodigal Son at 0.5.
Telemundo and Univision both got a 0.3/2. Telemundo had El Domo del Dinero at a flat 0.2 and Todo Por Mi Hija shot up 33% for a 0.4. Falsa Identidad got a level 0.3.
On Univision it was Vencer El Desamor up 25% to 0.5. Imperio de Mentiras got a 0.3 and Dulce Ambicion a 0.2, the pair flat.
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The CW posted a 0.1/1. The premieres of Two-Sentence Horror Stories and Canadian drama Tricksters both got a 0.1.
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.