Primetime Ratings: ABC On Top With Game Shows
‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ ticks up, as does Fox’s ‘Labor of Love’
ABC had the top score in Thursday ratings, with Who Wants to be a Millionaire pacing the network to the win. ABC had a 0.8 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That topped the 0.5/3s put up by CBS and Univision.
Who Wants to be a Millionaire went up 13% to 0.9. Holey Moley posted a 0.8 and To Tell the Truth a 0.7, both flat.
CBS had comedy reruns around Man With a Plan and Broke, which both got a 0.6. Man With a Plan stayed level and Broke picked up a tenth of a point. A SWAT repeat followed the comedies.
On Univision it was Te Doy La Vida at 0.4 and Amor Eterno at 0.5, both down a tenth. Como Tu No Hay 2 did a flat 0.5.
Fox, NBC and Telemundo all got a 0.3/2. Fox had Celebrity Watch Party and Labor of Love both at 0.3, Celebrity Watch flat and Labor up a tenth.
On NBC it was Council of Dads at 0.4 and Blindspot at 0.3, both level. A Law & Order: SVU rerun followed.
Telemundo had Cennet at 0.3 and 100 Dias Para Enamorarnos at 0.3. La Reina del Sur 2 got a 0.2. All three stayed level.
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The CW scored a 0.1/1. Burden of Truth and In the Dark both got a flat 0.1.
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.