Lots of arrivals, none of them exciting.
DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2).
Ratings analysis and comparisons follow the chart.
ABC: BOY BAND’s 2-hour debut was subdued at 0.7. THE GONG SHOW’s reboot premiered somewhat better at 0.9.
NBC: HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT returned at 0.8, and THE WALL began new episodes at 0.9. THE NIGHT SHIFT returned at 0.6, which was down half a point from its 2016 premiere, and that in turn was down 0.4 from 2015. It’s worth noting, though, that the lead-ins have gotten sharply lower as well, from 4.0 to 1.7 to 0.9.
FOX: BEAT SHAZAM and LOVE CONNECTION returned from a week off, with SHAZAM steady at 1.0, and LOVE up 0.1 to 0.8.
CBS: Reruns, led by THE BIG BANG THEORY at 1.0, and in the 0.5-0.8 range after that.
CW: Reruns at 0.3/0.3.
CW’s THE ORIGINALS belatedly ends its season tonight On cable, PLAYING HOUSE returns to USA with back-to-back episodes.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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