Primetime Ratings: NBC Rocks on ‘AGT’ Finale

The America’s Got Talent finale paced NBC to a comfy win Wednesday, the network scoring a 2.4 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 10 share. That was well ahead of CBS’ 1.6/6. 

America’s Got Talent did a 2.9, which NBC said was its most watched finale in seven years. Fully 15.36 million people watched. Last Wednesday’s episode did a 2.0. Spoiler alert—12-year-old ventriloquist Darci Lynne Farmer won the million dollars. The premiere of The Good Place at 10 p.m. scored a 1.4, up 27% from its season one finale in January.

On CBS, the Big Brother finale grew 17% to 2.1, and the Salvation closer went up 20% to 0.6. 

Fox scored a 1.1/4, as the MasterChef season finale rated a 1.1 across two hours. It fell 15% from last week’s show. 

Univision was at 0.8/3. Telemundo was at 0.6/3. 

ABC did a 0.6/2, with repeated comedies leading into a repeat of Designated Survivor.

The CW scored a 0.2/1, with repeats of Arrow and Supernatural.

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.