Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins With Big ‘Big Brother’

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CBS had the winning rating in Wednesday prime, with Big Brother blazing the trail. CBS got a 0.6 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That topped the 0.5/3s that NBC and Univision posted. 

Big Brother got a 1.0 and Tough As Nails a 0.4, both down a tenth from last week. Democratic Convention coverage on CBS got a 0.3. 

NBC had the America’s Got Talent results show down 14% to 0.6, an Ellen’s Game of Games rerun and convention coverage at 0.4. 

On Univision it was La Rosa de Guadalupe and Medicos at 0.5, both up a tenth. Como Tu No Hay 2 lost a tenth for a 0.4. 

Fox scored a 0.4/2 with MasterChef reruns. 

ABC and Telemundo both scored a 0.3/2. ABC had United We Fall at a flat 0.5 and comedy repeats. Convention coverage got a 0.3. 

On Telemundo it was Exatlon Estados Unidos at a flat 0.4, Cennet off 25% for a 0.3 and Enemigo Intimo 2 down 33% to 0.2.

The CW posted a 0.1/1. The 100 and Coroner both got a 0.1, same as last week. 

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.