FINALS UPDATE: Grey's Anatomy (1.7) and
The Big Bang Theory (2.4) adjusted up while
Mom (1.3),
Supernatural (0.4) and
Arrow (0.3) adjusted down.
WHAT MATTERS:
- It was another mixed bag on ABC Thursday, as Station 19 (1.0) suggested that it overachieved some last week and slid back by two tenths in week three. But Scandal (0.9) went the opposite way, upticking from its rough start in the 10/9c hour last week.
- Elsewhere, the CBS comedies (2.4/1.9/1.3/0.9) all inched down in their second weeks after March Madness. Fox (0.7/0.6) and NBC (0.8/0.6/0.9/0.5/1.0) matched last week, meaning no finale uptick for Will and Grace (0.9). And the CW's Supernatural (0.4) and Arrow (0.3) got destroyed in the finals due to an NYC baseball preemption, posting their lowest numbers since Thanksgiving.
FINALS UPDATE: The Goldbergs (1.4),
Survivor (1.7) and
Empire (1.8) adjusted up while
Designated Survivor (0.6) and
Life Sentence (0.1) adjusted down.
WHAT MATTERS:- ABC's new sitcom Alex, Inc. (0.9) took a two-tenth drop in week two, putting it behind anything Speechless did with an original The Goldbergs lead-in. (Speechless did get to a 0.9 on March 14 when it led off the night.) It was a low-end night for Goldbergs (1.3) as well, though Modern Family (1.5) perked up a bit at 9/8c. American Housewife (1.2) and Designated Survivor (0.7) looked pretty standard.
- Fox stayed on top on Wednesday with Empire (1.7) and Star (1.3) both down 10-15% from last week's spring premieres.
- On CBS, SEAL Team was off for the night and replaced by an NCIS repeat (0.7) at 9/8c. Surrounding it, Survivor (1.6) and Criminal Minds (1.0) both inched down. The Blacklist (0.9) was the only NBC original, and the CW's Life Sentence (0.2) came up from last week despite a repeat lead-in.
FINALS UPDATE: Rise (0.8) adjusted down.
WHAT MATTERS:- ABC's Roseanne revival phenomenon (3.9) came only part of the way back to ratings reality in week two, staying very close to what was the previous highest regular episode on broadcast this season: 4.1 for The Big Bang Theory's season premiere. It's a little steeper drop than the typical week two of a new show, but still a smaller decline than Will and Grace saw in its second week back. Considering the unthinkable point it was starting from, that goes down as a win.
- This week, Roseanne was only a half hour, and The Middle (2.2) returned to begin its final stretch of episodes at 8:30. That was easily a season high for Middle, and its first time in the twos since January 2016. The 9:00 hour fell hard with much-reduced lead-in support, but Black-ish (1.5) still tied with the season premiere for the second-biggest episode of the season. And Splitting Up Together (1.4) once again exhibited great retention at 9:30. For the People (0.8) was down just a tenth at 10/9c.
- A few viewers migrated back to the other networks, as NBC's The Voice (1.8), Rise (0.9) and Chicago Med (1.1) were all up a notch from last week. CBS' Bull (1.2) and Fox's LA to Vegas (0.7) also edged up.
FINALS UPDATE: The Crossing (0.9) adjusted down. The basketball game averaged a 4.09 on TBS + 0.55 on TNT + 0.19 on TruTV.
WHAT MATTERS:
- ABC began life after The Good Doctor with new genre drama The Crossing (1.0) premiering in unspectacular fashion at 10/9c. This kind of show doesn't have a great history of holding up well post-premiere, but it was available online for awhile and faced a big basketball game last night. The network's mojo was also a bit diminished earlier in the night, as American Idol (1.4) was down multiple tenths from 8:00 to 10:00.
- NBC's The Voice (1.9) also ticked down, though Good Girls preliminarily was able to stay even at 0.9. The other two networks mostly sat out against TBS' NCAA basketball championship, though in CBS' case that meant doing better numbers than usual with repeats of the Sheldon shows (1.3/1.2/1.1). That helped bump the lone original Living Biblically (0.8) up a notch.
- On the CW, Legends of Tomorrow (0.4) was even and iZombie took the night off in favor of a Penn and Teller: Fool Us special (0.3).
FINALS UPDATE: Dateline (0.8) and
Bob's Burgers (0.7) adjusted up.
WHAT MATTERS:- On Easter Sunday, NBC got much better numbers than its usual lineup thanks to special Jesus Christ Superstar: Live in Concert, which averaged a 1.7 from 8:00 to 10:00 and a 1.5 in the 10:00 half-hour (when it handed off to a special Dateline (0.7) to round out the night). That gave it a narrow head-to-head edge against American Idol (1.6), which was down just a tenth for ABC. After Idol, Deception (0.8) is eyeing an uptick preliminarily but has been getting some savage downward adjustments in finals.
- On CBS, Instinct (0.6) got its first airing with a non-sports-inflated 60 Minutes (0.7), and the results were not pretty as it went even below Wisdom of the Crowd's series low. NCIS: Los Angeles managed to pull CBS back up to a 0.8 at 9/8c, but Madam Secretary tanked right back to 0.5 at 10/9c.
- Fox's animated anchors The Simpsons (0.9) and Family Guy (0.9) were even, but there were some downticks at the bottoms of the hour with Brooklyn Nine-Nine (0.8), The Last Man on Earth (0.6) and especially Bob's Burgers (0.6).
FINALS UPDATE: Blindspot (0.6) adjusted up while
Dynasty (0.2) adjusted down.
WHAT MATTERS:- CBS Friday returned after March Madness with a strong night for Hawaii Five-0 (1.0), back into the ones for the first time in almost two months. Surrounding it, MacGyver (0.8) inched down and Blue Bloods (0.9) was even.
- On ABC, Once Upon a Time (0.5) picked up a notch but 20/20 (0.4) lost one at 10/9c. A tough week for NBC continued with Blindspot (0.5) and Taken (0.3) somehow getting even lower. Fox's MasterChef Junior (0.8) was steady.
- And the CW's Dynasty (0.3) will be looking to pull off the elusive +200% growth in rounded numbers. (I'm thinking there may be a preemption involved here, but we'll see!)
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