Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins With Bigger ‘Big Bang’

CBS got the win in Thursday ratings, The Big Bang Theory leading the net to a 1.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That topped the 0.9/4 that ABC posted.

Big Bang Theory got a 1.9 and Young Sheldon a 1.5, both up a tenth of a point. The Mom finale scored a 1.1 and Life in Pieces a 0.8, then SWAT a 0.7. The latter three were flat.

Grey’s Anatomy slipped 7% to 1.3 on ABC and Station 19 dropped 25% to 0.9. For the People fell 20% to 0.4.

NBC rated a 0.7/3 and Fox a 0.5/2.

On NBC, two Superstores got a 0.8 and 0.7 after last week’s 0.9, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine grew 20% to 0.6. Abby’s rated a level 0.4 and Law & Order: SVU slid 13% to 0.7.

The premiere of Paradise Hotel got a 0.5 across prime on Fox.

Telemundo did a 0.5 and Univision a 0.3/2.

The CW rated a 0.2/1, with both iZombie and In the Dark at 0.2, iZombie flat and In the Dark up a tenth. 

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.