Ratings: Amazing Race Tops Its 2020 Premiere Audience, Fire Leads Night
In the latest TV show ratings, CBS’ The Amazing Race kicked off its 33rd running with 4.2 million total viewers and a 0.7 demo rating, up 18 percent in audience and steady in the demo vs. its previous premiere, wayyyy back in October 2020.
TVLine readers gave the premiere an average grade of “A-“; read recap.
Leading out of that, Good Sam debuted to 2.6 million viewers and a 0.3 rating, delivering a smaller audience than CSI: Vegas ever did in the time slot. TVLine reader grade: “B-“; read recap.
Elsewhere….
NBC | Chicago Med (6.8 mil/0.7) and P.D. (5.9 mil/0.7) both came back from the break steady in the demo, while Fire (7 mil/0.8) returned up and led all of Wednesday on both counts.
ABC | The Goldbergs returned to 3.2 mil/0.5, followed by Wonder Years‘ 2.3 mil/0.4, The Conners‘ 2.4 mil/0.4 and Home Economics‘ 1.8 mil/0.3. The Chase (1.9 mil/0.3) was right on par with time slot predecessor A Million Little Things‘ fall averages.
FOX | I Can See Your Voice (2.2 mil/0.3) opened Season 2 with series lows, while Next Level Chef (1.8 mil/0.4) was down sharply from Sunday’s post-NFL preview.
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Renew CSI: Vegas!!
Already happened back on December 15th! See https://tvline.com/2021/12/15/csi-vegas-renewed-season-2/ Just proves that CSI was doing well in the timeslot.
CSI: Vegas was stable in that times lot and held up well against P.D. considering they were competing for the same audience. I think the built-in fanbase and nostalgia worked well for it, as well as the cast.
Already renewed for a second season. It has been a strong performer in various metrics.
I can’t seem to recall an ‘in-season’ new scripted series on CBS producing such weak premiere numbers in that slot.
And CSI: Vegas never got that kind of lead-in – only much weaker Tough As Nails.
Yup.
That’s the real story here. Good Sam had a MUCH stronger lead-in than CSI: Vegas and did far worse. Not a good sign at all.
Amazing Race – could they have found a more clueless bunch of contestants???
After I found out about the hijinks that go on behind the scenes with this show, I lost all interest in it .