WHAT MATTERS:
- NBC had one last night of Winter Olympics dominance with the Closing Ceremony averaging a mid-2's rating from 8:00 to 10:30. That's gonna be down from the 3.2 on the closing night last year, continuing the 2018 Games' usual trend of year-to-year declines in the twenties. NBC used the lead-in to offer another preview of comedy A.P. Bio (1.1) at 10:30/9:30c. It was a little higher than its 0.8 Thursday preview after Will and Grace but barely half (and even down a bit in Plus) of what Growing Up Fisher did with this lead-in four years ago (2.0).
- The biggest Olympics counterprogramming went head-to-head on Sunday, with the two-hour finale of Celebrity Big Brother (1.4/1.3) topping an out-of-timeslot edition of The Bachelor (1.1). Bachelor was not much help as a lead-in for Shark Tank (0.8), which quietly finished its season at 10/9c.
