The Breakdown: CBS Wednesday in 2016-17 (Survivor, Criminal Minds, Code Black and more!)

It's time for a journey through the CBS Wednesday schedule in 2016-17...

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 3/1/17

FINALS UPDATE: The Goldbergs (1.8) and Criminal Minds (1.3) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• NBC's week of dominance rolled into Wednesday with significant bumps for Chicago Fire (1.7) and especially Chicago PD (1.9) as part of a three-way crossover. It was a new season high for PD and almost certainly will go down as the show's highest single-episode Plus in its history. That set the table for a strong launch at 10/9c for Chicago Justice (1.7), which went ahead of everything PD had done in the 10/9c hour this season.

• On ABC, Modern Family managed to cling to a 2.0 in an 8:30 airing, building noticeably out of its lead-in from The Goldbergs (1.7). But that was no help for night two of When We Rise, as the low-rated ABC event ticked down to 0.6.

• CBS had the finale of Hunted, which finished up with another respectable 1.2. But Criminal Minds (1.2) ticked down against the huge PD. A repeat of Bull (0.7) occupied the 10/9c hour and ticked up from last week's episode of the pulled Doubt, as Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders gets ready to take over the hour next week.

• Fox's Star (1.1) was also on the downswing, hitting a new series low, but it also had to deal with a repeat of Lethal Weapon (0.7) as a lead-in.

• On the CW, Arrow (0.6) ticked up from last week's low, while The 100 preliminarily hung at 0.4 yet again.

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 2/22/17

FINALS UPDATE: The Goldbergs (1.8), Speechless (1.6) and Lethal Weapon (1.4) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• After an already DOA premiere last week, things got much worse in week two for CBS' Doubt (0.6), which fell to less than half the demo of its Criminal Minds (1.3) lead-in. (And a 0.6 -> 0.5 breakdown means it's actually south of an un-rounded 0.60.) Throw out the Saturday editions of Ransom, and it is tied with a few Elementary episodes as CBS' lowest-rated scripted episode of the season. It will be interesting to see if this situation prompts a quick action out of CBS.

• On ABC, 8:00 comedies The Goldbergs (1.7) and Speechless (1.5) inched down, Modern Family (2.0) was even, Black-ish (1.6) up a tenth and Match Game (0.9) steady.

• Fox had another immediate post-renewal downtick with Lethal Weapon (1.3), but not so with Star (1.2).

• NBC saw Law and Order: SVU (1.3) inch down between even Blindspot and Chicago PD (1.3), but even at 0.8 is not a good thing for Blindspot.

• And on the CW, Arrow (0.5) is eyeing a new series low in the prelims, but The 100 continued to cling for dear life to a 0.4.

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 2/15/17

FINALS UPDATE: Speechless (1.6) adjusted up while Blindspot (0.8) and Law and Order: SVU (1.4) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• The new CBS drama Doubt (0.8) got off to a bad start, going behind even the premieres of Pure Genius (1.0) and Training Day (0.9) from earlier in the season. It was also behind almost all the episodes of previous occupant Code Black (the only exception was its one random 0.7 from November). Might we see Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders here shortly? Earlier on CBS, Hunted stayed at 1.2 while Criminal Minds (1.3) inched up from last week's low.

• On ABC, it was a rough drop for Modern Family (2.0), and Speechless (1.5) also inched down. They were sandwiched by even The Goldbergs (1.8) and Black-ish (1.5), while Match Game (0.9) fell to its first fractional result of the season.

• Fox's Lethal Weapon (1.4) recovered to its usual level after last week's low, and pulled back ahead of Star (1.2) as it inched down to tie its low.

• On NBC, Law and Order: SVU (1.5) stayed strong as it shed only a tenth from last week's 400th bump. Chicago PD (1.3) was even and Blindspot (0.9) will hope for a second straight finals uptick to get even.

• And the CW's Arrow (0.6) and The 100 (0.4) were steady again in the prelims.

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 2/8/17

FINALS UPDATE: The Goldbergs (1.8) and Modern Family (2.3) and Blindspot (1.0) adjusted up while Black-ish (1.5) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• ABC's comedy anchors were back to originals for the first time in four weeks. All the comedies were down from the last time they were all together, especially The Goldbergs (1.7) at 8:00, while Speechless (1.6), Modern Family (2.2), Black-ish (1.6) were down more modestly from that night. (Black-ish was up from three weeks ago with a repeat lead-in.) Match Game stayed at 1.0 in the 10/9c hour.

• NBC was also back to originals after a multi-week hiatus, with a surge for the heavily promoted 400th Law and Order: SVU (1.6). Surrounding it was another disappointing 0.9 from Blindspot, plus a softer Chicago PD (1.3) at 10/9c.

• On CBS, the struggles continued for Criminal Minds (1.2) as it posted a new series low, again matching its lead-in from Hunted (1.2). At 10/9c, Code Black (0.9) wrapped up season two with a return to normalcy after showing some spark last week. It will certainly have its eye on the performance of Doubt in this timeslot going forward.

• Fox's Star (1.3) stayed resilient but its lead-in Lethal Weapon (1.3) inched down to a new low.

• And in their second week back together, Arrow (0.6) and The 100 (0.4) made it six straight CW shows this week that have matched last week.

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 2/1/17

FINALS UPDATE: The Goldbergs (R) (1.2) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• The CW brought back veteran drama The 100 with a 0.4 rating. This was its usual rating in the second half of last season, though it opened last season with a 0.7 out of the big Legends of Tomorrow premiere (1.2). This premiere led out of a steady Arrow (0.6).

• Fox's Star (1.3) had a relatively good night, ticking up despite a reduced lead-in from another Showtime at the Apollo special (0.8). The special did a fair amount worse than the 1.1 from the first original special back in early December.

• And CBS' Criminal Minds (1.3) was back from a couple weeks off with a low-end performance. However, CBS was pretty respectable in the surrounding hours; Hunted (1.3) matched last week's Wednesday premiere, while Code Black (1.1) was above average at 10/9c.

• Repeat mode continued on ABC with comedies (1.1/1.0/1.1/1.0) and Match Game (0.8), as well as on NBC with Law and Order: SVU (0.9/1.1) and Chicago PD (0.9).

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 1/25/17

FINALS UPDATE: Modern Family (R) (1.2) and Law and Order: SVU (R) (0.9) and Law and Order: SVU (R) (1.1) adjusted up while Hunted (1.3) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• After a big premiere on Sunday, CBS' Hunted settled into Wednesday with a 1.3/1.4 rating for its two hours. That suggests it doesn't have a future as anything more than Survivor filler over the long-term, but it's still (for now) better than anything Undercover Boss did over the last couple months. It led into a typical 0.9 from Code Black at 10/9c.

• Fox finally got a much-needed steady week out of Star (1.2), leading out of a third straight 1.4 from Lethal Weapon (1.4).

• The CW was back with another low-end return for a superhero show from Arrow (0.6), while low-rated fall newbie Frequency (0.3) got one last original lead-in before ceding the timeslot to The 100 next Wednesday.

• ABC began a two-week repeat run for its comedies (1.2/1.1/1.1/1.1), and had strong ratings in the 10/9c with a Donald Trump interview (1.7). NBC was also in repeat mode with double Law and Order: SVU (0.8/1.0) into Chicago PD (0.8).

SpotVault - Hunted (CBS) - Winter 2017 Ratings

Hunted

Wednesdays, 8/7c, CBS

Spotted Ratings, Sunday 1/22/17

FINALS UPDATE: AFC Championship (15.4) and Hunted (4.1) adjusted up while Son of Zorn (R) (1.4) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• CBS used its huge AFC Championship Game lead-in (a prelim in the 13's) on new reality series Hunted (3.6), which will head to Wednesday going forward. It started just under 10 minutes after its listed 10:00 start time, but these events have tended to adjust up in finals because the West Coast viewing is live (and thus counted as part of the 7:00 hour rating in the prelims). Stay tuned!

• The other networks went almost completely into repeat mode, with the exception being an original episode of Fox's Son of Zorn (0.9), on an island among comedy repeats. ABC even had repeats of its winter filler To Tell the Truth (0.6/0.6), plus a measly 0.3 for a Quantico repeat on the eve of its Monday premiere. NBC had Dateline (0.8) leading into movie Ted (0.5/0.5/0.5/0.6/0.7).