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, Tuesday 2/9/21

FINALS UPDATE: Black-ish (0.5) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• This Is Us (1.0) finally returned to originals and preliminarily matched its last rating from four weeks ago. It was no help to lead-in Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (0.4) and lead-out Nurses (0.3), which were both even with last week.
  

• The CBS dramas (0.9/0.8/0.6) matched their last prelims from two weeks ago, and the Fox dramas (0.5/0.4) were steady with their prelims from last week. (Most of those shows went on to adjust up in finals.) On ABC, Black-ish (0.4) dropped to join its companion Mixed-ish at 0.4, but Big Sky admirably pulled off another 0.6 at 10/9c.
  

Spotted Ratings, Monday 2/8/21

FINALS UPDATE: The Bachelor (1.4), The Neighborhood (1.0), Ellen's Game of Games (0.6) and The Wall (0.5) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• On Super Monday, CBS' Bob Hearts Abishola (0.8) tied its season high from two weeks ago, while lead-in The Neighborhood (0.9) will need adjustment help to do the same. All Rise (0.5) and Bull (0.5) were also steady.
  

• It was an up night for Fox dramas 9-1-1 (1.1) and 9-1-1: Lone Star (0.9), but a down one for ABC's The Bachelor (1.3) and the unscripted options on NBC (0.5/0.4).
  

• The CW's All American (0.3) rebounded from last week's 0.2, and Black Lightning (0.2) returned in the 9/8c hour.
  

Spotted Ratings, Sunday 2/7/21

FINALS UPDATE: The Super Bowl posted a 15-year low in total viewership with 91.629 million and an even worse historical performance in A18-49 (26.48), down 12% from last year. Lead-out The Equalizer (5.08) had a horrible showing in the demo compared to previous Super Bowl lead-outs but was more competitive in total viewers, skewing far older than the usual lead-out. Compared with last year's The Masked Singer, The Equalizer was off a whooping 38% in the demo but just 14% in total viewers.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted for CBS' Super Bowl Sunday. Lead-out The Equalizer started at 10:39 ET, almost exactly the same time as Fox's The Masked Singer a year-ago (10:40), so the prelim for the 10:30 half-hour should at least somewhat point toward the trendline. (Last year, Fox's 10:30 half-hour in the prelims averaged a 9.9, and Masked Singer ended up with an 8.14 in the finals.)
  

Spotted Ratings, Friday 2/5/21

FINALS UPDATE: Shark Tank (0.8) and The Blacklist (0.4) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.
  

Spotted Ratings, Thursday 2/4/21

FINALS UPDATE: Superstore (0.5) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

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, Tuesday 2/2/21

FINALS UPDATE: To Tell the Truth (0.6), Mixed-ish (0.5), FBI: Most Wanted (R) (0.4), The Resident (0.6) and Prodigal Son (0.5) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• ABC's revamped Tuesday couldn't hold onto its premiere ratings in the first two hours, with To Tell the Truth (0.5), Black-ish (0.5) and especially Mixed-ish (0.4) all down from last week's prelims. But Big Sky pulled off another 0.6 at 10/9c, looking all the more promising by comparison and actually winning the night outright in prelims.
  

• Despite CBS in repeats (0.4/0.4/0.3), 8/7c dramas The Resident (0.5) and Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (0.4) were down a notch from last week. Airing after yet another This Is Us repeat (0.3), Nurses inched back up to 0.3, and Prodigal Son posted another 0.4.
  

Spotted Ratings, Monday 2/1/21

FINALS UPDATE: The Bachelor (1.5) and 9-1-1 (1.0) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Week three saw a significant drop for the duo of 9-1-1 (0.9) and 9-1-1: Lone Star (0.8), and another downtick to a preliminary 0.2 for All American on the CW.
  

• ABC's The Bachelor (1.4) and the unscripted offerings on NBC (0.6/0.6/0.5) looked pretty steady, while CBS went into repeats.
  

Spotted Ratings, Sunday 1/31/21

FINALS UPDATE: America's Funniest Home Videos (R) (0.7), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (0.6), NCIS: New Orleans (R) (0.4), Weakest Link (R) (0.4) and Call Me Kat (R) (0.3) adjusted up.