The Breakdown: Fox Wednesday in 2020-21 (The Masked Singer, Name That Tune, Game of Talents and more!)

It's time for a journey through the Fox Wednesday schedule in 2020-21...

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 2/17/21

FINALS UPDATE: The Goldbergs (R) (0.6), Call Your Mother (R) (0.4), Chicago Fire (1.0) and The Masked Dancer (0.7) adjusted up.

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 2/10/21

FINALS UPDATE: For Life (0.3) and Chicago PD (0.9) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• CBS reality series Tough As Nails (0.5) returned for season two, with the same rating that was most common during its initial run in summer 2020.

• On ABC, the 8/7c hour of The Goldbergs (0.6) and American Housewife (0.5) matched last week's finals (with Goldbergs up from last week's prelim 0.5). A repeat of The Conners (0.4) and an original Call Your Mother (0.3) led into the first preliminary 0.2 at 10/9c from For Life.

• NBC's Chicago trio (0.9/1.0/0.8) fared similar, with Med down a tenth and Fire up a tenth vs. last week's prelims. And Fox's The Masked Dancer (0.6) and Name That Tune (0.5) looked a little better after preliminary 0.5/0.4 last week.
  

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 2/3/21

FINALS UPDATE: The Goldbergs (0.6), The Conners (0.6), Call Your Mother (0.4), Chicago Fire (1.0) and Name That Tune (0.5) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• The ABC comedy lineup stayed low, with anchors The Goldbergs (0.5) and The Conners (0.5) both matching last week's prelims and needing adjustment help to avoid new lows. American Housewife managed to get back to a preliminary 0.5, but Call Your Mother fell to its first 0.3 and For Life (0.3) stayed there.
  

• On Fox, Name That Tune (0.4) took an ugly drop after building on The Masked Dancer (0.5) last week.
  

• NBC's winning trio roughly matched last week with Chicago Med (1.0) up a tick and Chicago PD (0.8) preliminarily down one. CBS' annual Super Bowl's Greatest Commercials special (0.6) took a major drop from last year's 1.0.
  

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 1/20/21

FINALS UPDATE: Celebrating America ABC (0.7), Celebrating America CBS (0.5) and The Masked Dancer (0.7) adjusted up while Riverdale (0.1) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• On inauguration evening, ABC (0.7/0.6), CBS (0.5/0.4) and NBC (0.8) simulcast the Celebrating America concert from 8:30 to 10:00, with coverage of the inauguration in the 8:00 half-hour. ABC used this to lead into originals of its usual 9:00 comedy hour of The Conners (0.6) and Call Your Mother (0.4).
  

• Fox was down a tenth with its regular lineup of The Masked Dancer (0.6) and Name That Tune (0.6), and the CW was back to its regular Wednesday lineup of with Riverdale (0.2) and Nancy Drew (0.1).
  

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 1/13/21

FINALS UPDATE: American Housewife (0.6) and Chicago PD (1.0) adjusted up while Riverdale (R) (0.0) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• ABC added new comedy Call Your Mother (0.5) to its comedy lineup after The Conners (0.6), where it looked maybe a little better than Black-ish (which was usually two tenths below The Conners in the fall). The night started with a steady The Goldbergs (0.7) and slightly down American Housewife (0.5).
  

• NBC was on top with the returns of Chicago Med (1.0), Chicago Fire (1.0) and Chicago PD (0.9), with PD ticking up from its fall finale almost two months ago. The Fox reality duo of The Masked Dancer (0.7) and Name That Tune (0.7) matched last week, while CBS' SEAL Team (0.5) and S.W.A.T. (0.4) returned following a The Price is Right special (0.7).
  

SpotVault - The Masked Dancer (Fox) - Winter 2020-21 Ratings

The Masked Dancer

Wednesdays, 8/7c, Fox

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 1/6/21

FINALS UPDATE: NBC News Special (1.1) adjusted up while ABC News Special (0.6) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• The three-hour networks gave (most of) their primetime to coverage of the Capitol riots, with NBC (1.2/1.0/0.8) leading ABC (0.9/0.7/0.6) and the two hours on CBS (0.3/0.3).
  

• Meanwhile, Fox went forward with its planned timeslot premieres of The Masked Dancer (0.7) and game show Name That Tune (0.7). Masked was of course nothing near the usual The Masked Singer ratings in the hour, but the lineup still basically doubled last year's early-winter options (Flirty Dancing (0.4) and Almost Family (0.3)).
  

Spotted Ratings, Sunday 12/27/20

FINALS UPDATE: America's Funniest Home Videos (R) (0.6), Supermarket Sweep (R) (0.4), Supermarket Sweep (R) (0.3), NCIS: Los Angeles (R) (0.4), Sunday Night Football (4.9, +1.1), NFL Overrun (5.5, +1.4), The OT (3.1, +0.2) and The Masked Dancer (1.4, +0.2) adjusted up while 60 Minutes (0.6), Football Night in America p2 (0.9, -0.6) and Football Night in America p3 (2.5, -0.7) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Fox previewed reality series The Masked Dancer (1.3/1.0) following NFL coverage in the 7:30 half-hour (2.9). For comparison, a The Masked Singer special in a similar situation back in September had a 1.3 prelim/1.6 final following a much bigger 7:30 half-hour (4.0)).