Hockey beat two returning summer veterans.
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: Despite a move to Mondays and a berth behind THE BACHELORETTE (down 0.4 from last week to 1.6, still the highest-rated show of the night), MISTRESSES continued its downward trend, premiering at 0.7, which was down 0.2 from its 2015 premiere (itself down 0.3 from 2014).
FOX: SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE returned at 1.0, down 0.3 from the 2015 premiere. HOUDINI & DOYLE lost 0.1 to 0.5.
NBC: Game 1 of the STANLEY CUP FINALS had a preliminary 1.2.
CBS: After 0.6/0.7 SCORPION reruns, PERSON OF INTEREST was down 0.1 from last Monday to 0.8.
CW: A run of the movie MEMORIAL DAY was at 0.2.
NBC tried and failed to bring the variety show back to primetime last fall with its Neil Patrick Harris series. Now it’s giving MAYA & MARTY (those being Rudolph and Short) an easier summer launch, with the season premiere of AMERICA’S GOT TALENT as a lead-in.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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