A bad night for football.
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: GREY’S ANATOMY returned from a week off and dropped 0.3 to 1.8. SCANDAL (1.1) and HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER (0.9) were steady with last week.
CBS: The network’s final fall THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL had a preliminary 2.2, down 0.6 from last week’s early rating.
NBC: SUPERSTORE rose 0.1 to 1.2, and THE GOOD PLACE held at 1.1. The rest of the night was up, WILL & GRACE (1.8) and CHICAGO FIRE (1.2) by 0.1, and GREAT NEWS (1.0) by 0.2.
FOX: GOTHAM stayed at 0.9, and THE ORVILLE returned from last week’s pilot rerun with a 0.2 boost to 1.2.
CW: SUPERNATURAL lost 0.1 to 0.6, and ARROW remained at 0.5.
The WORLD SERIES resumes tonight, and NBC finally premieres the new season of BLINDSPOT.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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