Primetime Ratings: CBS Scores With Booming ‘Big Brother’

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CBS took the ratings crown Thursday, with Big Brother setting the pace en route to a 1.2 score in prime for the network, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That easily topped the 0.7/3 that ABC posted.

Fox, NBC and Telemundo all did a 0.5/2. Univision rated a 0.4/2 and The CW a 0.1/1.

CBS had comedy reruns before Big Brother, which did a 1.7, up 27% over last week, when it was up against football. A SWAT repeat followed.

ABC had a Celebrity Family Feud repeat leading in to the Match Game finale, which was up 33% at 0.8. Take Two closed out prime up 25% at 0.5.

Fox had repeats of MasterChef and The Gifted.

NBC aired four The Good Place reruns and one of Law & Order: SVU.

The CW had repeats of Supernatural and The Originals.

Michael Malone
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.