Primetime Ratings: Football Down on Fox
Fox won Thursday ratings easily, Thursday Night Football giving the network a 3.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 14 share. That stomped the 0.8/4 that ABC got.
Fox had Chiefs versus Broncos across prime. Last week, Giants-Patriots rated a 3.4.
ABC had Grey’s Anatomy at 1.2 and A Million Little Things at 0.7, both down a tenth of a point, then How to Get Away With Murder at a flat 0.5.
CBS got a 0.7/3 and NBC a 0.6/3. On CBS, Young Sheldon dropped 10% to 0.9 and The Unicorn was a level 0.7. Mom did a flat 0.8 and Carol’s Second Act grew 17% to 0.7. Evil also went up 17% to 0.7.
On NBC, it was Superstore at 0.8 and Perfect Harmony at 0.4. The Good Place got a 0.6 and Sunnyside a 0.3, then Law & Order: SVU rated a 0.6. All NBC shows were flat.
Telemundo rated a 0.6/3 and Univision a 0.5/2. Telemundo had the Latin American Music Awards.
On Univision, La Rosa de Guadalupe got a 0.4 and La Usurpadora a 0.5, both level. El Dragon slid 20% down to 0.4.
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The CW scored a 0.3/1. Supernatural rated a 0.3 and Legacies a 0.2, both down a tenth.
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.