There was moderate interest in an hour about current events.
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: A town hall broadcast about race, THE PRESIDENT AND THE PEOPLE (which also aired on ESPN and Freeform), rated at 1.0. GREATEST HITS was steady at 0.9, followed by 0.8 for a MATCH GAME rerun.
CBS: BIG BROTHER held at last Thursday’s 1.9 and easily won the night. The rest of the night was reruns, dominated by THE BIG BANG THEORY’s 1.5.
NBC: After a 0.8 rerun, SPARTAN remained at 0.9, and AQUARIUS is currently up 0.1 to 0.5.
FOX: A new BONES was down 0.1 from its last original to 0.8, and HOME FREE stayed at 0.5.
CW: Both BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and the LEGENDS OF TOMORROW rerun were at 0.2, the same as last week.
There are 5 months until STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE opens, but at ABC/Disney it’s never too soon to hype, so along with today’s release of a new poster and footage, additional goodies are promised for tonight’s SECRETS OF THE FORCE AWAKENS special. Netflix has unveiled its newest series, 8 hours of the retro horror thriller STRANGER THINGS.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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