Primetime Ratings: ‘Man With a Plan’ Opens So-So on CBS

NBC’s The Voice grew 4% to a 2.7 rating in viewers 18-49, per Nielsen’s overnights, while Timeless fell 7% to 1.4. NBC prevailed at 2.2 with a 7 share, ahead of ABC and CBS at 1.4/5, Fox at 1.1/4 and The CW at 0.7/2.

ABC’s Dancing With the Stars did a 1.6, up 7%, and Conviction a flat 0.8.

On CBS, Kevin Can Wait scored a 1.6; it did a 2.1 a week ago with Big Bang Theory leading in. The series premiere of Matt LeBlanc-starring Man With a Plan too rated a 1.6. 2 Broke Girls fell 13% to a 1.4 and The Odd Couple weighed in at a flat 1.1, before Scorpion fell 8% to 1.2.

Fox’s Gotham drew a flat 1.1 and Lucifer slipped 9% to 1.0.

CW’s Supergirl scored a level 0.9 while Jane the Virgin climbed 50% from last week at 0.6.  

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.