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ABC
| 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | Avg | |
| 2013-14 | The Middle | Back in the Game | Modern Family | Super Fun Night | Nashville | 107 | |
| 109 | 93 | 188 | 94 | 78 | |||
| 101 | 141 | ||||||
| 2014-15 | The Middle | The Goldbergs | Modern Family | Black-ish | Nashville | 122 (+14%) | |
| 119 (+9%) | 130 (+39%) | 190 (+1%) | 136 (+44%) | 80 (+2%) | |||
| 124 (+23%) | 163 (+15%) | ||||||
| VsAvg | +24% | +14% | +1% | +14% | |||
| Rank | 3/14 | 5/14 | 7/14 | 3/14 | |||
| 2015-16 | The Middle | The Goldbergs | Modern Family | Black-ish | Nashville | ||
ABC put four family comedies together, and the result was one of the season's biggest ratings bonanzas. The Goldbergs and Black-ish each improved their own timeslots by 40%ish and were able to drag past-their-prime lead-outs Modern Family and Nashville to minor growth as well. The best trend among the incumbents actually belonged to lead-off comedy The Middle, which was up to a historical-adjusted series high in its sixth season. These five will stay together in 2015-16, though Nashville is supposed to make room for Secrets and Lies at midseason.
CBS
| 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | Avg | |
| 2013-14 | Survivor Fall | Criminal Minds | CSI | 122 | |||
| 132 | 132 | 101 | |||||
| 2014-15 | Survivor Fall | Criminal Minds | Stalker | 119 (-2%) | |||
| 138 (+4%) | 127 (-4%) | 91 (-9%) | |||||
| VsAvg | +55% | +12% | -7% | +18% | |||
| Rank | 3/14 | 6/14 | 10/14 | 5/14 | |||
| 2015-16 | Survivor Fall | Criminal Minds | CODE BLACK | ||||
Survivor had another banner year in 2014-15, dropping less than the league average for both the fall and spring (134) seasons. But the network as a whole regressed, as Criminal Minds gave back most of the Survivor gains with a slight drop at 9/8c, then 10/9c occupants Stalker and CSI: Cyber (82) fell well shy of CSI's previous production. They'll try again with Code Black this fall, and they well may be trying again multiple times (especially since a Criminal Minds spin-off sits on the shelf).
NBC
| 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | Avg | |
| 2013-14 | Revolution | Law and Order: SVU | Ironside | 74 | |||
| 73 | 95 | 56 | |||||
| 2014-15 | The Mysteries of Laura | Law and Order: SVU | Chicago PD | 88 (+18%) | |||
| 72 (-0%) | 97 (+2%) | 94 (+68%) | |||||
| VsAvg | +7% | +6% | -4% | +2% | |||
| Rank | 7/14 | 6/14 | 5/14 | 4/14 | |||
| 2015-16 | The Mysteries of Laura | Law and Order: SVU | Chicago PD | ||||
Thanks to the Empire breakthrough on Fox, NBC stayed in the big four cellar on Wednesday yet again, where they've now been for more than a decade! However, this was actually one of NBC's better efforts on the night over that decade, largely thanks to Chicago PD patching up the 10:00 hour. The Mysteries of Laura was flailing late in the season, but its Plus for the full season nearly matched last year's Revolution, and SVU improbably inched up again. After a pity renewal for Laura, NBC is standing pat here, which means there's no real shot to crawl out of fourth.
Fox
| 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg | |
| 2013-14 | The X Factor Wed | 95 | |||
| 95 | 95 | ||||
| 2014-15 | Hell's Kitchen | Red Band Society | 69 (-28%) | ||
| 80 (-16%) | 58 (-39%) | ||||
| VsAvg | -15% | -39% | -27% | ||
| Rank | 10/14 | 13/14 | 14/14 | ||
| 2015-16 | ROSEWOOD | Empire | |||
Fox's first attempt to replace The X Factor in the fall didn't go so well, with both Hell's Kitchen and especially the drama Red Band Society going significantly behind the average that got X cancelled after three seasons. But at midseason, Fox really turned it around with the biggest broadcast drama of the A18-49+ era in Empire (303), and it's the understatement of the week to say that should set them up for improvement this fall. It stayed at 9/8c, leaving the new Morris Chestnut procedural Rosewood to lead off.
The CW
| 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg | |
| 2013-14 | Arrow | The Tomorrow People | 40 | ||
| 49 | 32 | ||||
| 2014-15 | Arrow | The 100 | 45 (+13%) | ||
| 61 (+24%) | 30 (-4%) | ||||
| VsAvg | +12% | -7% | +5% | ||
| Rank | 4/9 | 7/9 | 4/9 | ||
| 2015-16 | Arrow | Supernatural | |||
The CW's comic book-fueled breakout in 2014-15 didn't come solely on the back of newbie The Flash; there was also a huge upswing for the third-year drama Arrow, which had a long string of low-1 ratings following its first crossover with Flash on December 3. If not for The Flash, this year of Arrow actually would've become the biggest A18-49+ drama season in CW history!
But sophomore The 100 was still in pretty marginal territory, and so it's coming off the bench in 2015-16. Supernatural showed up on Wednesday in March, averaging a 39 for its late-season Wednesday episodes, and it'll be back again this fall.
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