Primetime Ratings Wednesday: ‘MasterChef’ Drops But Fox Still Prevails
Joel McHale’s ‘Crime Scene Kitchen’ stays level on Fox
Fox won the Wednesday ratings derby, with MasterChef leading the way. Fox averaged a 0.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 3 share. That barely beat the 0.4/3s that ABC and NBC posted.
MasterChef lost 17% for a 0.5 and Crime Scene Kitchen got a flat 0.4 on Fox.
ABC had Press Your Luck up 25% to 0.5 and The $100,000 Pyramid down 20% to 0.4. A Celebrity Dating Game rerun followed.
NBC had Olympic trials at 0.5 from 8 to 10 p.m. and The Blacklist at 0.3.
Telemundo and Univision both scored a 0.3/2. Exatlon Estados Unidos, La Suerte De Loli and Cafe Con Aroma De Mujer all got a flat 0.3 on Telemundo.
On Univision, Disenando Tu Amor fell 25% to 0.3, Si Nos Dejan shot up 33% to 0.4 and La Hija Del Embajador notched a flat 0.2.
CBS averaged a 0.2/2. Kids Say the Darndest Things slid 25% to 0.3 and two SWAT reruns followed.
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The CW posted a 0.1/1 with repeats.
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.