Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins Big With ‘Big Brother’

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CBS had the top score in Thursday ratings, with Big Brother leading the way. CBS had a 0.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. In second was ABC at 0.5/3. 

Big Brother got its usual 1.0 and two hours of Love Island ticked up 25% to 0.5. 

ABC had reruns of Celebrity Family Feud, Holey Moley and Match Game

Fox, NBC, Telemundo and Univision all scored 0.3/2s. 

Fox had repeats of Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back and The Masked Singer

NBC had reruns of Transplant and Law & Order: SVU.

On Telemundo it was 0.3s for Exatlon Estados Unidos, Todo Por Mi Hija and Enemigo Intimo 2. Todo lost a tenth and the other two were level with last week. 

Univision had La Rosa de Guadalupe down 20% to 0.4, Medicos at a flat 0.4 and Dulce Ambicion at a flat 0.3. 

The CW scored a 0.1/1. Mysteries Decoded got a level 0.1 and led into a Penn & Teller: Fool Us repeat.  

Michael Malone

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.