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Primetime Ratings: ‘This Is Us’ Down But NBC Still Prevails

NBC won the Tuesday ratings race, with This Is Us leading to a 1.2 for the network in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That topped the 0.9/4 that CBS got. Ellen’s Game of Games got a flat 1.2 on NBC and This Is Us, depicting Randall and Beth’s first date decades before and ...

New Brooklyn drama ‘The Village’ falls in week two on NBC

NBC won the Tuesday ratings race, with This Is Us leading to a 1.2 for the network in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That topped the 0.9/4 that CBS got.

Ellen’s Game of Games got a flat 1.2 on NBC and This Is Us, depicting Randall and Beth’s first date decades before and their struggles today, down 11% at 1.6. The season finale airs next week. The Village rated a 0.7, off 22% from its premiere.

On CBS, it was NCIS at a level 1.1 and FBI down 10% at 0.9. NCIS: New Orleans got a flat 0.7.

ABC and Fox both got a 0.7/3. On ABC, American Housewife posted a 0.8 and The Kids Are Alright a 0.6. Black-ish got a 0.6 and Splitting Up Together a 0.6, all four comedies flat with last week. The Rookie grew 17% for a 0.7.

On Fox, MasterChef Junior did a 0.7 and Mental Samurai a 0.6, both down a tenth of a point.

Telemundo and Univision both rated a 0.4/2.

The CW got a 0.2/1. A Flash repeat led into Roswell, New Mexico, down 33% at 0.2. 


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