There’s no keeping EMPIRE down.
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.
FOX: Network television hasn’t seen anything like EMPIRE in a long, long time. The drama rose yet again, up another 0.3 to an incredible 5.1. AMERICAN IDOL, however, isn’t getting much of a halo effect, as it fell 0.1 from last week to 2.7 (slightly above last year’s parallel episode).
CBS: THE MENTALIST didn’t go out on a high note, with 1.3 in the first hour of its series finale and 1.4 in the final hour, compared to 1.4 for last week’s 1-hour episode. STALKER dropped 0.1 to 1.3, and will be replaced by the new CSI: CYBER in 2 weeks.
ABC; THE MIDDLE and THE GOLDBERGS were both at 2.2, which was up 0.1 for MIDDLE. MODERN FAMILY dropped 0.3 to 3.0, which made the 0.1 gain for BLACK-ISH (to 2.2) look a bit better. NASHVILLE slipped 0.1 to 1.3.
NBC: THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA added 0.1 to 1.1, and both SVU and CHICAGO PD had strong-ish nights, with SVU up 0.2 to 1.6 and PD up 0.3 to 1.7.
CW: ARROW stayed at 1.1, and THE 100 rose 0.1 to 0.6.
Tonight CBS is doing everything it can to launch its reboot of THE ODD COUPLE, hammocking it between a new BIG BANG THEORY and the 1-hour series finale of 2 1/2 MEN. The other networks air fresh episodes of their regular series.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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