However, the Peacock Network won overnight thanks to its “Law & Order” franchise.
Here’s how the rest of the broadcast networks stack up in ratings:
As mentioned, NBC won the night with its new episode of “L&O,” all of which saw a two-tenth jump in ratings compared to the previous week. Starting with the original show at 8 p.m., “Law & Order” drew 0.48 in demos and an average of 4.2 million viewers. An hour later, “SVU” received 0.56 in ratings and 4.4 million overall average viewers. Concluding the investigation at 10 p.m., “Organized Crime” garnered 0.45 in the demo and 3.2 overall average viewership.
Meanwhile, CBS topped the class in total viewership, leading the night with an average of 5.1 million viewers. The shows “Young Sheldon,” “Ghosts” and “So Help Me Todd” all saw an increase in viewership from the week before to several hundreds of thousands. At 8 p.m., “Young Sheldon” garnered 0.56 in the demo and averaged 7.1 million viewers, the most of the night and of any network. An hour and a half later, “Ghosts” emerged with a ratings rating of 0.53 and an overall average audience of 6.8 million. “So Help Me Toad” grossed 0.33 in demos and averaged 4.6 million viewers. At 10 p.m., “CSI: Vegas” received a rating score of 0.28 and averaged 3.6 million viewers, winning its time period in viewership.
ABC was second in ratings with a rating score of 0.42. At 8 p.m., “Station 19” heated up the night with scores of 0.53 and 3.9 million total average viewers. Then, an episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” reached 0.46 in demos and an average of 3.5 million viewers. At 10 p.m., the Hilary Swank journalist drama “Alaska Daily” clocked 0.26 in demos and averaged 2.9 million viewers.
NBC was second in viewership, averaging 3.9 million, followed by ABC, which attracted 3.4 million. Third in the ratings was CBS, which scored 0.39 in its demo.
Fox ranked fourth in both ratings and overall average viewers, receiving 0.35 in demos and an average of 1.7 million. “Hell’s Kitchen” cooked an average of 0.46 and 2.1 million viewers. Rounding out the night were the broadcasts of “Welcome to Fletch” and “Call Me Cat”, the latter of which saw a slight bump in both demo and total audience following the death of star Leslie Jordan, which the episode paid tribute to. Commemorative montage. The former drew 0.21 in demos and an average of 925,000 viewers. “Call Me Cat” garnered 0.27 in ratings and 1.4 million in overall average viewers.
The CW came in fifth in demos and viewership at 0.05 and 662,000, with back-to-back hour-long airings of “Walker” and its prequel “Walker: Independence”. The former had 0.07 and 801,000 overall average viewers, while the latter received 0.04 and 524,000.
Neither The CW nor Fox air primetime programming on 10.
Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision ranked first with a total average audience of 0.7 in demo and 1.6 million in primetime. At 8 p.m., a new installment of the telenovela “Vensor la Ausenia” received a 0.6 demo rating and a total of 1.6 million viewers. For the next two hours of primetime, the Liga MX Soccer League game between Toluca and Pachuca garnered 0.7 in demos and an average total of 1.7 million viewers.
Telemundo came in second, with an average 0.3 demo rating and an average of 1.1 million total viewers. The network re-broadcast all of its programming, with “Exatlón” managing a 0.2 demo rating and 862,000 viewers from 7 to 9 p.m. meet. “El Fuego del Destino” closed the night with a 0.2 demo rating and a total of 952,000 viewers from 10 to 11 p.m.
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