2 hours of THE VOICE was all network TV could muster for excitement last night.
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.
NBC: Extending THE VOICE to 2 hours still put the show 0.1 behind its last regular episode at 2.7 (last week was a clip show), although it gave the usual bounce to CHICAGO FIRE, up 0.4 to 2.0.
FOX: HELL’S KITCHEN held at 1.2, but NEW GIRL was down 0.1 to a series low 0.9. WEIRD LONERS stayed at its premiere’s 0.7.
ABC: FRESH OFF THE BOAT and AGENTS OF SHIELD were each up 0.1, respectively to 1.4 and 1.5, but FOREVER lost 0.2 to tie its series low 0.9.
CBS: Everything was down: NCIS by 0.1 to 2.1, NCIS: NEW ORLEANS by 0.2 to 1.6, and PERSON OF INTEREST by 0.2 to 1.3. The latter two were at their series lows.
CW: IZOMBIE showed some staying power, holding at last week’s 0.7 even though this week it had a 0.5 rerun of THE FLASH as its lead-in, instead of last week’s 1.3 fresh episode.
All the networks except CW are new tonight, and NBC continues banging the drum of THE VOICE with an extra Wednesday installment at 8PM.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week. 
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