Primetime Ratings Wednesday: Fox Wins With Cooking Shows
‘A Million Little Things’ wraps season on ABC, everything up on Telemundo
Fox won the Wednesday prime contest, with MasterChef drawing a decent crowd. Fox scored a 0.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, along with a 4 share. Just behind were ABC and NBC at 0.4/3.
Fox had MasterChef at 0.6 and Crime Scene Kitchen at 0.4, both shows flat.
ABC had Press Your Luck down 20% to 0.4 and the two-hour A Million Little Things finale at 0.4 and 0.3, up a little from last week’s 0.3.
NBC had Chicago repeats across prime.
CBS, Telemundo and Univision all posted a 0.3/2. CBS had Kids Say the Darndest Things at a level 0.4 and SWAT reruns.
Telemundo had Exatlon Estados Unidos, La Suerte De Loli and Cafe Con Aroma De Mujer all at 0.3, all three up a tenth.
On Univision, Disenando Tu Amor got a flat 0.4, Si Nos Dejan lost 25% for a 0.3 and La Hija Del Embajador dropped 33% for a 0.2.
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The CW earned a 0.1/1 with reruns.
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.