Ratings: CBS Heads to the Top of the Class With ‘Young Sheldon’
CBS has topped the class in Thursday night ratings under the tutelage of its “Big Bang Theory” spinoff “Young Sheldon.” The half-hour comedy won in both the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and total average viewership across all the networks and hours of primetime.
The broadcast network scored 0.39 in the key demo and netted 4.8 million total viewers on average, according to live plus same-day data from Nielsen. Kicking off the night at 8 p.m., “Young Sheldon” hit a 0.55 in ratings and received 6.8 million total average viewers. At 8:30 p.m. was an airing of “Ghosts,” which won its half-hour with 0.51 in the demo and a total viewership of 6.1 million on average. At 9 p.m., “So Help Me Todd” got 0.32 in ratings and 4.3 million viewers on average. The night closed out at 10 p.m. with “CSI: Vegas,” which received a 0.3 ratings score and averaged 3.6 million viewers.
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Here’s how primetime went down across the major broadcasters:
After CBS’ standing as No. 1 in school was ABC, which came in as salutatorian in both ratings and total viewership with 0.38 in the demo and 3.5 million watchers. At 8 p.m., “Station 19” heat up the night with a score of 0.44 and 3.9 million total average viewers. Then, an episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” scrubbed its way to 0.49 in the demo and 3.6 million viewers on average. At 10 p.m., the Hilary Swank journalist drama “Alaska Daily” scooped up 0.21 in the demo and 2.9 million viewers on average.
NBC was third in ratings and total average viewership, due its encore airings of episodes of the “Law & Order” franchise, which predictably saw a two-tenths deduction in the demo overall from the week prior (0.5 to 0.3). The network netted 2.5 million viewers overall. Across all three flagship series, NBC decreased in both viewership and ratings, in varying degrees of roughly a million to 1.5 million and approximately two-tenths in the demo per program, respectively.
Fourth in ratings and total average viewers was Fox, at 0.28 in the demo and 1.5 million — same as last week. “Hell’s Kitchen” swept with 0.38 and 1.9 million viewers on average. Rounding out the night were airings of “Welcome to Flatch” and “Call Me Kat,” which dropped off two-tenths in ratings from the Gordon Ramsay-hosted competition show, scoring 0.17 and 0.18, respectively, and netting 830,000 and 1.1 million total average viewers each.
The CW came fifth in the demo and viewership, at 0.07 and 602,000, with back-to-back hour-long airings of “Walker” and its prequel “Walker: Independence.” The former drew 0.08 and 694,000 total average viewers, while the latter received 0.05 and 510,000.
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Neither The CW nor Fox air primetime programming at 10.
Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision was first with a 0.4 in the demo and 1.3 million total average viewers across primetime. “La Herencia, Un Legado de Amor” received a 0.5 demo rating and 1.4 million total viewers at 8 p.m. “Los Ricos También Lloran,” which aired from 9 to 10, got a 0.4 in the demo and 1.4 million total viewers. A new episode of “La Madrastra” at 10 p.m. finished off the night with 0.3 in ratings and 1.1 million total viewers on average.
Telemundo came in second, averaging a 0.3 demo rating and 1.1 million total viewers on average. “Éxatlon,” which aired from 7 to 9 p.m., managed a 0.2 demo rating and 936,000 watchers. At 9 p.m. was “La Reina del Sur,” which got 0.4 in the demo and 1.3 million total average viewers. “El Fuego del Destino” closed out the night with a 0.3 demo rating and 917,000 total viewers from 10 to 11 p.m.
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