Primetime Ratings: Noisy ‘AGT’ Gives NBC Easy Win
NBC won the Tuesday ratings contest, with America’s Got Talent leading the Peacock to a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That topped the 0.8/4 that ABC tallied.
America’s Got Talent, with Sean Hayes as a guest judge, ticked up 8% to 1.4. Bring the Funny got a flat 0.7.
On ABC, Bachelor in Paradise did a level 1.0 and was followed by repeated comedies.
CBS, Telemundo and Univision all scored a 0.4/2. CBS had repeated dramas.
Telemundo had Exatlon Estados Unidos and El Final Del Paraiso at 0.4, and Preso No. 1 at 0.3. All three shows were flat.
On Univision, it was La Rosa de Guadalupe down 25% from the night before at 0.3 and Juntos up 33% to 0.4, then Sin Miedo a la Verdad also up 33% to 0.4.
Fox got a 0.3/2. A rerun of The Resident led into First Responders Live north 33% at 0.4.
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The CW scored a 0.1/1, with Pandora down a tenth at 0.1 and a Roswell repeat.
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.