FINALS UPDATE: MacGyver (0.6),
Mr. Mayor (R)
(0.4),
WWE SmackDown! (0.6) and
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (R)
(0.1) adjusted up.
WHAT MATTERS:- Some of the Friday originals had a high-end return to the new year, with CBS' Magnum P.I. (0.6) and Blue Bloods (0.6) each setting new season highs following a steady MacGyver (0.5). But the night still belonged to ABC led by Shark Tank (0.8), which tied its own season high.
FINALS UPDATE: Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (1.2),
The Chase (0.9),
Mr. Mayor (0.6),
Hell's Kitchen (0.8),
Call Me Kat (0.7) and
Last Man Standing (0.6) adjusted up.
WHAT MATTERS:- ABC won a Thursday night full of premieres with its game show lineup of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (1.1), The Chase (0.9) and The Hustler (0.7). The first two hours started well despite coming nowhere close to last year's Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time ratings, while Hustler improved on its post-Bachelor preview from Monday.
- On Fox, Hell's Kitchen (0.7) was back with its first original episode in almost two years, and was off just a couple tenths from the fall 2018 season premiere. Sitcoms Call Me Kat (0.6) and Last Man Standing (0.5) made the move to their regular timeslot, with Kat shedding most of its Sunday preview audience.
- And NBC was somewhat in the mix with the two-episode premiere of Mr. Mayor (0.6/0.5), rating at or narrowly above typical Superstore levels, plus Law and Order: SVU (0.6) returning from more than a month off.
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)).
FINALS UPDATE: FBI (R)
(0.6) and
Gordon Ramsay's American Road Trip (0.5) adjusted up.
WHAT MATTERS:- Sophomore dramedy Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (0.5) made the move to Tuesday at 8/7c, where it ticked up a bit from its spring 2020 results. It was no help to its new lead-out This Is Us (1.0), which dropped by two tenths from its fall finale. Airing after TIU for the first time, Nurses (0.3) managed to drop below its first two episodes in December.
- NBC could not pull into the nightly lead against a bunch of repeat/filler competition, as ABC got there with the broadcast premiere of The Lion King (0.7) and a half-hour of Senate election coverage (0.4). Fox had a two-hour Gordon Ramsay special (0.4).
FINALS UPDATE: The Bachelor (1.3),
The Neighborhood (0.8),
Ellen's Game of Games (0.7),
Ellen's Game of Games (0.6) and
The Masked Dancer (R)
(0.3) adjusted up.
WHAT MATTERS:- ABC dominated the first Monday of 2021 with the season premiere of The Bachelor (1.3/1.2), but the show was down about a third from the premiere of last year's record-setting season. And a preview of Thursday reality effort The Hustler (0.5) did not show a lot of promise at 10/9c.
- Ellen's Game of Games (0.6/0.5) moved to Monday and was about in line with a couple originals it aired early in the fall, and down massively from its winter 2020 premiere (1.0/1.1). It led into The Wall (0.5) at 10/9c.
- CBS also returned to originals with The Neighborhood (0.7), Bob Hearts Abishola (0.6), All Rise (0.5) and Bull (0.5), most of which posted typical fall numbers and up a touch from their last episodes in December.
FINALS UPDATE: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (0.5),
NFL Overrun (3.4, +1.1),
60 Minutes (1.2, +0.3),
NCIS: Los Angeles (0.6),
NCIS: New Orleans (0.5),
Sunday Night Football (4.6, +0.8),
NFL Overrun (Fox) (6.0, +2.7),
The OT (2.6, +0.7),
Call Me Kat (1.4),
The Great North (0.7) and
The Simpsons (0.6) adjusted up while
The Outpost (0.0) adjusted down.
WHAT MATTERS:- Week 17 of the NFL season means national late-afternoon games on both networks, and Fox used its opportunity to preview Thursday-bound sitcom Call Me Kat (1.3), which held on rather well considering the Fox NFL games ended early and the network had just a preliminary 1.9 at 7:30. The network then fell off quickly with the premiere of animated newbie The Great North (0.6) at 8:30, The Simpsons (0.5) at 9:00, and finally a 9:30 preview of the final season of Last Man Standing (0.5).
- ABC opened season three of The Rookie (0.5), down a couple tenths from its last season premiere in fall 2019, but it grew from its Who Wants to Be a Millionaire lead-in (0.4). Millionaire and Supermarket Sweep (0.5) pretty much stayed at their diminished December levels.
- CBS gave its NFL lead-in to 60 Minutes (0.9 from 8:00-9:00) and the NCIS spin-offs (0.5/0.4 from 9:00-11:00), which could adjust up a touch since they started about 15 minutes earlier than the listed times.
FINALS UPDATE: Magnum P.I. (R)
(0.3) adjusted up.
FINALS UPDATE: New Year's Rockin' Eve 8-10pm (2.3, +0.3),
New Year's Rockin' Eve (3.5, +0.4),
Mom (R)
(0.3),
New Year's Eve: Escape From 2020 (0.9) and
New Year's Eve with Carson Daly (1.1) adjusted up.
WHAT MATTERS:- Numbers posted. Happy New Year!
FINALS UPDATE: The Goldbergs (R)
(0.3) adjusted down.
FINALS UPDATE: To Tell the Truth (R)
(0.6) adjusted up while
Tell Me a Story (0.0) adjusted down.
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