Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Ebullient ‘Ellen’s

NBC won the top spot in Tuesday prime ratings, a hot Ellen’s Game of Games leading to a 1.4 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. In second was CBS at 1.0/4.

Ellen’s Game of Games grew 7% to 1.5 for NBC and This Is Us lost 11% for a 1.7, before New Amsterdam logged a level 1.0.

For CBS, NCIS did a flat 1.3 and FBI went up 25% to 1.0, then NCIS: New Orleans did a flat 0.8.

ABC got a 0.7/3 and Fox a 0.6/2.

ABC had American Housewife up 13% for a 0.9 and The Kids Are Alright down 13% to 0.7, then Black-ish at 0.8 and Splitting Up Together at 0.6, both comedies flat. The Rookie fell 14% to 0.6.

On Fox, Lethal Weapon did a 0.7 and The Gifted a 0.5, both dramas flat.

The CW did a 0.4/2. The Flash got a 0.6 and Roswell, New Mexico a 0.3, both down a tenth of a point.

Telemundo and Univision both scored a 0.4/2. 

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.