Primetime Ratings Tuesday: CBS Wins With ‘NCIS’ Double Shot

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CBS won the prime ratings race Tuesday, with NCIS pacing the network to the title. CBS got a 0.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. In second was Fox at 0.5/3. 

CBS had NCIS from 8 to 10 p.m. at 0.8 and 0.7, virtually level with its last new airing. FBI: Most Wanted got a flat 0.5. 

On Fox, The Resident slid 17% to 0.5, and Prodigal Son rated a level 0.5.

ABC had a 0.4/3 with 2015 movie Cinderella

Univision got a 0.4/2 and NBC and Telemundo a 0.3/2. Univision had Vencer El Desamor at a flat 0.5, Imperio de Mentiras at 0.4 and Dulce Ambicion at 0.3, the latter two both up a tenth. 

NBC had Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist at a level 0.4 and a This Is Us rerun, then Nurses off 50% to 0.2.

On Telemundo it was El Domo del Dinero up 50% to 0.3, Todo Por Mi Hija at 0.4 and Falsa Identidad at 0.3, the latter two flat. 

The CW got a 0.1/1. Two Sentence Horror Stories and Trickster both got a level 0.1. 

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.