Primetime Ratings Tuesday: NBC on Top With 'This Is Us' Finale

NBC's 'This Is Us'
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NBC won the Tuesday ratings battle, with the This Is Us finale setting a hot pace. NBC scored a 0.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That just beat CBS at 0.6/4. 

NBC had two hours of The Voice at 0.7 and 0.8, up 50%. This Is Us got a flat 0.8. 

CBS had the season finales for NCIS at 0.7, FBI at 0.6 and FBI: Most Wanted at 0.5. NCIS and FBI: Most Wanted stayed level and FBI lost a tenth. 

ABC scored a 0.5/3. Special Mike Tyson: The Knockout did a 0.5 and 0.6 across two hours. Special After Floyd: The Year That Shook the World scored a 0.3. 

Univision did a 0.4/3 and Telemundo a 0.3/2. Univision had Diseñando Tu Amor at flat 0.4. The Te Acuerdas de Mí finale got a 0.5 and La Hija Del Embajador a 0.4, both up a tenth. 

On Telemundo it was Exatlón Estados Unidos at a flat 0.2 and La Suerte de Loli up 50% to 0.3. The premiere of Café Con Aroma de Mujer got a 0.4. 

Fox posted a 0.2/2. The Game of Talents finale lost 67% without its Masked Singer lead-in for a 0.2 and the season starter for Rob Lowe-hosted Mental Samurai got a 0.2. 

The CW earned a 0.2/1. The Flash lost a tenth for a 0.1 and Superman & Lois gained a tenth for a 0.2.

Michael Malone

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.