Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With ‘Millionaire’
‘Blindspot’ opens soft on NBC
ABC had the top score in Thursday’s primetime, with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire leading the Alphabets. ABC’s 0.7/4 squeaked by CBS’s 0.6/4.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire went up 13% to 0.9 and Station 19 lost 11% for a 0.8. How to Get Away With Murder lost 17% for a 0.5.
It was a soft night for ratings.
CBS had a Young Sheldon rerun, then Man With a Plan tallied a flat 0.7. After a Mom repeat, Broke got a 0.6 and Tommy a 0.5, both shows flat.
Univision was next at 0.5/3. Te Doy La Vida got a 0.5 and Amor Eterno a 0.6, both flat. Como Tu No Hay 2 went up 20% to 0.6.
Fox, NBC and Telemundo all posted a 0.3/2. The premiere of Celebrity Watch Party got a 0.4 on Fox and was followed by a Mental Samurai repeat.
NBC had two Council of Dads at 0.4 and 0.3, after last week’s 0.3. The season starter for Blindspot got a 0.3 and led into a Law & Order: SVU rerun.
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Telemundo had Cennet at a flat 0.4. 100 Dias Para Enamorarnos did a 0.3 and La Reina del Sur 2 a 0.2, both off a tenth.
The CW rated a 0.1/0. Katy Keene and In the Dark both rated a level 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.