Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins With ‘Big Brother’

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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CBS was the top scorer among broadcasters Wednesday, as Big Brother led the network to a 1.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. Next up were Fox and NBC at 0.7/3.

Big Brother was up 6% over its premiere, at 1.8. Two Criminal Minds repeats followed.

Fox had repeats of MasterChef and The F Word With Gordon Ramsay.

NBC aired Little Big Shots: Forever Young, which was up 11% at 1.0, then The Carmichael Show at a flat 0.7. A Carmichael Show repeat and This Is Us encore got NBC through to the end of prime. The Carmichael Show won’t be back for season four, with the remainder of season three airing this summer.

ABC had repeated comedies, then gamer To Tell the Truth at a level 0.6, en route to a 0.6/3.

Repeats on The CW produced a 0.2/1.

Among Spanish-language networks, Telemundo, with El Señor de los Cielos, did a 0.6/2, while Univision was at 0.5/2.  

Michael Malone
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.