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. 

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.