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, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.