Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins With ‘Big Brother’

CBS took the Wednesday ratings crown, posting a 1.4 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, on the return of Big Brother. CBS had a 6 share for the night. It easily beat runner-up Fox (at 0.8/4), which won the previous Wednesday. 

Big Brother scored a 1.7 across two hours and was followed by a repeat. Big Brother debuted last season at 1.8 and did a 2.0 in its finale. 

Fox had MasterChef up 11% at 1.0, then The F Word with Gordon Ramsay off 14% at 0.6. 

NBC was at 0.6/3, with Little Big Shots: Forever Young at 0.9 and The Carmichael Show at 0.7 and then repeats. Both shows were down a tenth of a point. 

ABC was just behind at 0.6/2 with repeated comedies, then To Tell the Truth at a flat 0.6. 

The CW was at 0.2/1 with repeats.  

Telemundo and Univision both did a 0.5/2 in prime. 

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.