Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Booming ‘Masked Singer’
Fox won big in Wednesday ratings, riding red-hot The Masked Singer to a 1.9 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and an 8 share. ABC got second with a 0.9/4.
Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back grew 9% to 1.2 on Fox, and The Masked Singer climbed 13% to 2.6.
On ABC, it was The Goldbergs up 8% to 1.3 while Schooled fell 9% to 1.0. Modern Family did a flat 1.2 and Single Parents went up 14% to 0.8, before Match Game shot up 20% to 0.6.
CBS did a 0.8/4. Big Brother: Celebrity Edition went up 9% to 1.2 and was followed by comedy repeats. Criminal Minds did a level 0.8.
NBC got a 0.7/3 with repeats of its Chicago shows.
Univision did a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/2.
The CW got a 0.3/1. Riverdale did a 0.4 and All American a 0.2, both shows flat.
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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.