THE FAMILY was welcomed with moderately open arms.
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: After a 2.2 GREY’S ANATOMY (up 0.1 from last week), THE FAMILY had its “preview” debut at 1.5, down 0.2 from last week’s SCANDAL. The number was consistent through the hour, and would be considered a decent result if it can hold at that level on Sunday. HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER declined 0.1 to 1.4. Footnote: to no one’s surprise, all the ShondaLand shows were among the many renewed by ABC yesterday for next season.
CBS: The night started with a THE BIG BANG THEORY rerun at 1.9, half of last week’s new episode. That pushed LIFE IN PIECES down 0.3 to 1.8. MOM lost 0.1 to 1.7, and 2 BROKE GIRLS was steady at 1.7. ELEMENTARY held last week’s 1.1.
NBC: YOU, ME AND THE APOCALYPSE was, well, apocalyptic, down 0.1 to a dreadful 0.5. A rerun of the BLINDSPOT midseason premiere had no traction at 0.4. Notably, though, the much lower lead-in didn’t hurt SHADES OF BLUE, steady at 1.0.
CW: LEGENDS OF TOMORROW remained at 0.9, and THE 100 lost 0.1 to 0.5.
FOX: AMERICAN IDOL dropped 0.2 to 1.9.
All the networks air regular programming tonight.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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