Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Strong-ish ‘This Is Us’
NBC had the top spot in Tuesday prime ratings, hit This Is Us pacing the Peacock to a 1.3 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That topped the 0.9/4 over at CBS.
The Voice did a flat 1.5 on NBC and This Is Us a 1.6, before New Amsterdam tallied a 0.8, the latter two losing a tenth of a point.
On CBS, it was NCIS down 15% at 1.1 and FBI off 20% at 0.8, then NCIS: New Orleans at a level 0.7.
Fox got a 0.8/4 and ABC a 0.7/3.
On Fox, The Resident scored a flat 0.7 and Empire slid 11% to 0.8.
On ABC, it was The Conners at a flat 1.1 and Bless This Mess up a tenth at 0.8. Mixed-ish and Black-ish both got a 0.7 and Emergence a 0.5. Mixed-ish and Black-ish were flat and Emergence dropped 29%.
Univision rated a 0.5/3. La Rosa de Guadalupe got a 0.5 and La Usurpadora a 0.6, then El Dragon a 0.5. All three were up a tenth.
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The CW rated a 0.5/2. The premiere of The Flash got a 0.6, down 25% from last year’s opener, and a Batwoman repeat followed.
Telemundo did a 0.4/2. Exatlon Estados Unidos and El Final del Paraiso both scored a 0.4 and No Te Puedes Esconder tallied a 0.3, all three flat.
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.