Primetime Ratings: World Series Picking Up Viewers on Fox
Fox won the Tuesday ratings race, the World Series pacing the net to a 3.6 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 16 share. That easily topped the 1.1/5 that NBC posted.
Game six of Astros-Nationals took up all of prime. Game five did a 2.4 and game four a 2.1. The Series will be decided Wednesday night.
NBC had The Voice down 8% to 1.2, This Is Us off 13% for a 1.4 and New Amsterdam down 11% for a 0.8.
ABC did a 0.8/3 and CBS a 0.6/3. ABC had The Conners at 1.2 and Bless This Mess at 0.8, both up a tenth of a point. Mixed-ish did a 0.7 and Black-ish a 0.8, the former flat and the latter up a tenth. Emergence too was up a tenth at 0.6.
On CBS, it was drama reruns.
The CW, Telemundo and Univision all did a 0.4/2. On CW, The Flash did a 0.5 and Arrow a 0.3, both shows level.
Telemundo had Exatlon Estados Unidos at a flat 0.5 and El Final del Paraiso and El Senor de los Cielos both down a tenth at 0.4.
Broadcasting & Cable Newsletter
The smarter way to stay on top of broadcasting and cable industry. Sign up below
On Univision, La Rosa de Guadalupe went up 25% to 0.5. Cuna de Lobos and El Dragon both did a flat 0.4.
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.