Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With ‘This Is Us’ Closer
NBC won the Tuesday ratings derby, with the This Is Us season finale pacing the net to a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. In second was CBS at 0.9/4.
On NBC, Ellen’s Game of Games lost 8% for a 1.1 and the This Is Us closer, with Kate and Toby getting used to being parents and Randall and Beth moving the family, grew 13% to 1.8. The Village grew 14% to 0.8.
On CBS, NCIS got a 1.1 and FBI a 0.9, both flat, before NCIS: New Orleans went up 14% to 0.8.
ABC and Fox both did a 0.7/3. ABC had comedy reruns before Black-ish grew 17% to 0.7 and Splitting Up Together did a 0.6, then The Rookie a 0.7, the latter two level.
Fox had MasterChef Junior at 0.7 and Mental Samurai at 0.6, both flat with last week.
Telemundo and Univision both scored a 0.4/2, same as they did last week.
The CW did a 0.2/1 with repeats.
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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.