Primetime Ratings: ABC, CBS Split Low-Rated Night

On a Monday filled with repeats, ABC and CBS shared the broadcast ratings title, both with 1.2 ratings in viewers 18-49 and 4 shares, according to Nielsen overnight numbers. NBC was just off the pace at 1.1/4, while The CW had a 0.5/2 and Fox a 0.4/1.

Going original amidst the mid-season doldrums, ABC had two hours of The Great Christmas Light Fight, averaging a 1.3, same as last week, then The Great Holiday Baking Show at a 1.1, also flat with its previous airing.

CBS' reruns rated well enough to tie ABC. A double run of The Big Bang Theory rated a 1.8, before encores of Supergirl (1.0) and Scorpion (0.8).

NBC aired reruns of new comedies Superstore and Telenovela, then A Saturday Night Live Christmas.

Fox had reruns of Gotham and Bones, while The CW had two hours of a Penn & Teller: Fool Us rebroadcast.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.