Primetime Ratings: ‘Masked Singer’ Opens Massive on Fox
Fox crushed all comers in Wednesday's prime ratings, riding the premiere of The Masked Singer to a 2.1 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 9 share. That easily beat the 0.8/4 that CBS put up.
The season premiere of Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back did a 1.2 on Fox, up a tenth of a point from last season’s premiere in June. The Masked Singer, a singing competition featuring celebs in identity-covering costumes, did a 2.9. Nick Cannon hosts the show, which is based on a Korean format.
The competition mostly aired reruns.
On CBS, comedy repeats led into SEAL Team at 0.9 and Criminal Minds at 0.7, both shows down a tenth of a point from their last fresh airings in mid-December.
ABC got a 0.6/3 with repeats of comedies and Match Game.
NBC did a 0.6/2 with reruns of its Chicago shows.
Univision scored a 0.4/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/1.
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The CW got a 0.2/1 with All American reruns.
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.