Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing CBS scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages.Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing ABC scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages.Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing Fox scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages.Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing NBC scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages.Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing CBS scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages.Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing ABC scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages.
A New-Era Cartoon Finally Sticks
After losing American Dad! and The Cleveland Show, Fox spent several years attempting to incorporate live-action comedies into its Sunday lineup, perhaps most notably with Will Forte's The Last Man on Earth, but recommitted to going all-animation starting in fall 2019 with Bless the Harts. Though Harts only lasted two seasons and early 2020 newbie Duncanville just one, Fox was finally able to find some improvement on those shows with the January 2021 launch of The Great North. Its season one average was carried by two January episodes that led out of NFL playoff games, but the show did prove to be a little stronger than Duncanville when the dust settled, typically dropping about 15% of its Simpsons lead-in.
Seasons two and three got similar levels of NFL boost, but in these seasons it was airing in the fall after the regular season NFL lead-ins. Once all that inflation was gone in the winter/spring, The Great North was a clear weak link when lined up with Simpsons, Bob's Burgers and Family Guy, but it was doing enough to stay on the air.
Season four saw The Great North completely miss out on all those fall lead-ins, leading to a catastrophic-looking drop in its ratings averages. The silver lining was that Fox also chose this year (plus spring 2023's Housebroken) to start rolling out more animated newbies, Krapopolis and Grimsburg, and those shows arguably looked even worse. In the end, this has reinforced at least through 2023-24 that The Great North is the strongest (or least weak) animated newbie in this generation. That's a low bar to clear, but it's been enough for the show to hang on for a fifth season. It's aired a few episodes in early September, getting a bit of the early NFL juice, and then will return at midseason.
Adults 18-49 info by season:
| Seas | Year | Slot | Avg | y2y | Lo | Hi | Results | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2021 | Sunday 8:30 | 0.55 | 0.3 | 2.1 | detail | C | |
| 2 | 2021-22 | 0.40 | -27% | 0.2 | 0.8 | detail | C+ | |
| 3 | 2022-23 | 0.33 | -17% | 0.2 | 0.8 | detail | C+ | |
| 4 | 2024 | Sunday 9:00 | 0.15 | -54% | 0.1 | 0.2 | detail | C- |
| 5 | 2024-25 | Su 9:30, Su 9:00, Th 9:30 | 0.14 | -5% | 0.1 | 0.3 | detail | C+ |
| Seas | Year | A18-49+ | Label | Now25 | y2y | Lo | Hi | Premiere | Finale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2021 | 85 | marginal | 0.27 | 47 | 330 | 107 | 47 | |
| 2 | 2021-22 | 78 | marginal | 0.25 | -8% | 43 | 149 | 133 | 43 |
| 3 | 2022-23 | 77 | marginal | 0.24 | -1% | 40 | 176 | 176 | 40 |
| 4 | 2024 | 40 | flop | 0.13 | -48% | 26 | 58 | 58 | 42 |
| 5 | 2024-25 | 45 | flop | 0.14 | +14% | 31 | 94 | 35 | 44 |
| AVERAGE: | 65 | flop | |||||||
| CAREER: | 324 | utility | |||||||
CBS Sunday Wakes Up
Starting with the move of The Good Wife to Sunday in 2011, CBS Sunday became a relative soft spot for the network ratings-wise. While shows like TGW, Madam Secretary and Elementary at least offered a prestige element, there were also newbie failures in the 8/7c hour like Wisdom of the Crowd and God Friended Me that continually held the network back, even when they started trying a bit harder for ratings with NCIS spin-offs.
In early 2021, though, CBS finally found the 8/7c anchor that could really get them back in the game. The Equalizer had the best possible help for its series premiere, airing after the Super Bowl to over 20 million viewers and a 5.1 demo. It wasn't a great showing by Super Bowl lead-out standards at the time, but it still translated to a strong start in its first regular episode the next Sunday, when it averaged a 0.93 demo (144 Plus) and built on its 60 Minutes lead-in. More importantly, it held up just fine even following a four-week hiatus through most of March, refusing to drop below the league average even in the late spring.
In the next two seasons, The Equalizer got the chance to air in the fall, when CBS had late-afternoon NFL lead-ins into 60 Minutes, and that helped produce multiple big hit results in the fall each season. And the show continued to do almost as well in the winter/spring portions, holding at or just below the league average.
Season four saw the show deprived of the NFL once again due to the writers' strike delays. But some of that was counter-balanced by the show getting its strongest scripted teammate yet in 9/8c newbie Tracker. In the end, The Equalizer was only barely down from its first three seasons and posted a fourth straight season in the 110s. But Tracker was so successful that it will inherit The Equalizer's 8/7c post-NFL perch starting in fall 2024, leaving The Equalizer to the later 9/8c hour. That probably won't help The Equalizer's ratings, but the night as a whole could be historically strong for the eye.
Adults 18-49 info by season:
| Seas | Year | Slot | Avg | y2y | Lo | Hi | Results | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spring 2021 | Sunday 8:00 | 0.75 | 0.7 | 0.9 | detail | B+ | |
| 2 | 2021-22 | 0.61 | -19% | 0.4 | 0.8 | detail | B | |
| 3 | 2022-23 | 0.50 | -17% | 0.3 | 0.8 | detail | B- | |
| 4 | Spring 2024 | 0.43 | -14% | 0.3 | 0.6 | detail | B | |
| 5 | 2024-25 | Sunday 10:00 | 0.26 | -39% | 0.2 | 0.3 | detail | C- |
| Seas | Year | A18-49+ | Label | Now25 | y2y | Lo | Hi | Premiere | Finale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spring 2021 | 116 | solid | 0.37 | 102 | 144 | 144 | 109 | |
| 2 | 2021-22 | 119 | solid | 0.38 | +3% | 88 | 165 | 151 | 100 |
| 3 | 2022-23 | 117 | solid | 0.37 | -1% | 82 | 185 | 155 | 113 |
| 4 | Spring 2024 | 113 | solid | 0.36 | -3% | 90 | 166 | 127 | 113 |
| 5 | 2024-25 | 82 | marginal | 0.26 | -27% | 60 | 110 | 107 | 79 |
| AVERAGE: | 110 | solid | |||||||
| CAREER: | 548 | staple | |||||||
Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing news series.Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing CW scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages.
