TV Ratings: This Is Us, FBI Rerun Lead Night; Naomi Audience Dips in Week 2
In the latest TV show ratings, NBC’s This Is Us led Tuesday in the demo (albeit with a series low), while CBS’ FBI rerun copped the night’s largest audience.
Opening NBC’s night, American Auto (with 2.3 million viewers and a 0.4 rating) and Grand Crew (1.7 mil/0.3) both dipped. This Is Us (4.7 mil/0.7, read recap and Jack flash-forward update) slipped 6 and 22 percent to hit series lows on both counts — and now get us fearing another cooking appliance. New Amsterdam (3.4 mil/0.3, read recap) was down a tenth in the demo.
Over on The CW, Superman & Lois (1.12 mil/0.2, read post mortem) and Naomi (734K/0.1, read post mortem) were both steady in the demo, though the latter dropped a few viewers from its debut. (SuperLois, meanwhile, grew in viewers, giving the Tuesday leadoff slot its best audience since Feb. 23.)
ABC’s Judge Steve Harvey (4.3 mil/0.6), Abbott Elementary (2.9 mil/0.5), black-ish (2 mil/0.3) and Queens (1.2 mil/0.2) all dipped.
Leading out of a Lone Star repeat, Fox’s Our Kind of People (1.1 mil/0.2) hit and tied series lows.
CBS’ FBI rerun audience was 5.1 million.
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The Live+Same Day numbers reported in our ratings column do not reflect a show’s overall performance, given the increased use of delayed playback via DVR and streaming platforms, plus out-of-home viewing. These numbers (Nielsen fast nationals, unless denoted as finals) instead aim to simply illustrate trends or superlatives. Steve Harvey is not a judge or lawyer and merely offers an alternative forum of dispute resolution.
Loving Abbott Elementary! Genuinely laugh-out-loud funny! Please, ABC, do everything you can to make this one thrive.
Ratings wise its a solidly stable show pulling respectable numbers for its timeslot. I dont think you have much to be concerned about.
Well, Abbott Elementary must have improved greatly since its horrible pilot last fall. I watched that one and gave up. Maybe I will have to go back and dig up other eps on my DVR.
Blows my mind that a CBS rerun does better than any new programming.
Over a million live viewers for S&L. Nice.
So it’s safe to call Naomi a massive flop now, yeah? I know Michael described its 800k total viewers last week “super” despite being the lowest debut ever for a DC show, but now it’s less than 3/4 total viewers and half the demo of S&L?
You can’t spin that as anything but bad.
The numbers seem fine for a CW show to me… it is a more obscure character so wouldn’t be expected to do Superman numbers but it comes in around the numbers of the other DC shows… so clearly not a “massive flop”.
I won’t speculate on your agenda re: this specific show, but… yes, its retention out of S&L could be a bit better. But as currently stands, and pending possible further audience erosion, only two CW shows (S&L and Walker) draw more viewers than Naomi. And only three CW shows reach a 0.2 demo rating (All American, S&L and, barely, The Flash). So no, not a “flop.” And yes, relative to CW shows, it had a “pretty super start” (my exact words). –Not Michael
Matt, I think you’re speculating, you’re just not saying it out loud. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have even posted that.
You’re going to devastated when the show gets picked up for a second season I’m sure.
Devastated.
I don’t think you can say that at all. Without seeing the L+7, streaming numbers etc For live viewing it’s performing better than a lot of CW shows.
I actually think this is a show that will pick up viewers as they get to know the characters. I enjoyed the second ep more than the pilot.
I guess Fox is having a hard time finding a hit show this season. They should have kept Prodigal Son among other shows. Not surprised about series lows all the time. This is Us doesn’t surprise me, as I tend to watch that the following day myself (being the last season, most of the viewers are probably getting an idea of how it will end) Grab the Kleenex!! I am not like New Amsterdam this season just yet, not digging the move to London storyline.
They tell you that the robots will kill us all, but I think it’s going to be the cooking appliances.