Primetime Ratings: ‘Big Brother’ Paces CBS

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CBS had the top score in Wednesday’s prime, with Big Brother leading the network. CBS got a 0.6 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That snuck by NBC’s 0.6/3. 

Big Brother got a noisy 1.1, 10% better than its premiere, and Tough As Nails a flat 0.5. A SEAL Team rerun got CBS to the end of prime. 

NBC had an America’s Got Talent results show at 0.7 and the World of Dance finale at a flat 0.6. A Chicago PD rerun followed. 

Univision got a 0.5/3. La Rosa de Guadalupe and Medicos both got a 0.4 and Como Tu No Hay 2 posted a 0.5. All three were flat. 

ABC and Telemundo both rated a 0.4/2. United We Fall got a flat 0.5 on ABC. A Goldbergs rerun led into the Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD finale across two hours at 0.4 and 0.3, up a tick from last week’s 0.3. 

On Telemundo, Exatlon Estados Unidos and Cennet got 0.4s and Enemigo Intimo 2 scored a 0.3. All three shows were up a tenth. 

Fox got a 0.3/2 with MasterChef reruns. 

The CW scored a 0.1/1. The 100 and Coroner both got a flat 0.1. 

Michael Malone

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.