Prime Time TV Ratings Week March 29-April 4

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Viewers in millions

1. NCAA Basketball (Sat 8:36) CBS 14.9
2. NCAA Basketball (Sat 7:22) CBS 8.3
3. Law & Order: SVU (Thu) NBC 8.0
4. Law & Order: Organized Crime (Thu) NBC 7.9
5. 60 Minutes CBS 7.7

6. Chicago Fire NBC 7.4
7. Chicago Med NBC 7.2
8. The Equalizer CBS 7.0
9. Young Sheldon CBS 6.6
10. Chicago PD NBC 6.4

10. NCAA Basketball (Mon 9:53) CBS 6.4
12. Blue Bloods CBS 6.2
12. The Voice NBC 6.2
14. NCAA Basketball (Mon 9:33) CBS 6.1
15. NCAA Basketball (Mon 7pm) CBS 5.9

16. American Idol (Sun) ABC 5.6
17. NCIS: Los Angeles CBS 5.5
18. Magnum PI CBS 5.4
19. United States of Al CBS 5.3
20. American Idol (Mon) ABC 5.0

20. Masked Singer (Wed) Fox 5.0
20. Mom CBS 5.0
20. NCIS CBS 5.0
24. FBI CBS 4.8
24. Station 19 ABC 4.8

26. Grey's Anatomy ABC 4.6
26. NCIS: New Orleans CBS 4.6
28. America's Funniest Home Videos ABC 4.5
29. The Good Doctor ABC 4.4
30. MacGyver CBS 4.3

31. Pooch Perfect ABC 4.2
32. Movie: The Ten Commandments ABC 4.1
33. Manifest NBC 4.0
34. Shark Tank ABC 3.9
35. B Positive CBS 3.8

35. The Rookie ABC 3.8
37. FBI: Most Wanted CBS 3.5
38. New Amsterdam NBC 3.4
39. Blacklist NBC 3.3
39. The Conners ABC 3.3

41. The Goldbergs ABC 3.2
42. Tough As Nails CBS 3.0
43. American Housewife ABC 2.7
44. Debris NBC 2.6
44. Hell's Kitchen Fox 2.6

44. A Million Little Things ABC 2.6
44. 20/20 ABC 2.6
44. Young Rock NBC 2.6
49. Black-ish ABC 2.5
49. Dateline (Fri) NBC 2.5

49. 9-1-1 Fox 2.5
52. Clarice CBS 2.4
52. Game of Talents (Wed) Fox 2.4
54. Call Your Mother ABC 2.3
55. Friday Night Smackdown Fox 2.1

55. SEAL Team CBS 2.1
57. America's Most Wanted Fox 2.0
58. Kenan NBC 2.0
58. Mixed-ish ABC 2.0
60. S.W.A.T. CBS 1.9

60. This Is Us NBC 1.9
62. Ellen's Game of Games (Sun 8pm) NBC 1.8
63. The Con ABC 1.6
63. Law & Order: Organized Crime (Sat) NBC 1.6
65. Masked Singer (Tue) Fox 1.5

65. SNL Prime NBC 1.5
67. Ellen's Game of Games (Sun 7pm) NBC 1.4
67. The Resident Fox 1.4
67. Soul of a Nation ABC 1.4
70. Law & Order: SVU (Sat) NBC 1.3

71. Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist NBC 1.2
72. Malika the Lion Queen Fox 1.0
72. The Moodys Fox 1.0
74. The Flash CW 0.9
74. Masked Singer (Sat) Fox 0.9

76. Game of Talents (Sat) Fox 0.8
76. Good Girls NBC 0.8
78. Penn & Teller: April Fool Us (8pm) CW 0.7
78. Penn & Teller: Fool Us CW 0.7
78. Supergirl CW 0.7

81. Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade Fox 0.6
81. Penn & Teller: April Fool Us (9pm) CW 0.6
81. Wipeout CW 0.6
84. Bless the Harts Fox 0.5
84. Bulletproof CW 0.5

84. Riverdale CW 0.5
84. World's Funniest Animals (8pm) CW 0.5
84. World's Funniest Animals (8:30) CW 0.5
89. Masters of Illusion (9:30) CW 0.4
89. Nancy Drew CW 0.4

91. Masters of Illusion (9pm) CW 0.3
92. All American Stories CW 0.2

CW

1................…74. The Flash CW 0.9
2..............……78. Penn & Teller: April Fool Us (8pm) CW 0.7
2..............……78. Penn & Teller: Fool Us CW 0.7
2................…78. Supergirl CW 0.7
5..............……81. Penn & Teller: April Fool Us (9pm) CW 0.6

5..............……81. Wipeout CW 0.6
7................……84. Bulletproof CW 0.5
7................……84. Riverdale CW 0.5
7................……84. World's Funniest Animals (8pm) CW 0.5
7................……84. World's Funniest Animals (8:30) CW 0.5

11...............……89. Masters of Illusion (9:30) CW 0.4
11..............……89. Nancy Drew CW 0.4
13...............……91. Masters of Illusion (9pm) CW 0.3
13................……92. All American Stories CW 0.2

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I'm finally here. It took longer than expected.

Two types of programs did really well on Saturday: the basketball game (I assume the hour-long program in the middle was commentary, but it did well too) and the perennial movie event of the holiday season. Okay, not spectacular, but an improvement over the usual.

Fox's attempt at family-friendly programming for Easter bombed. So did The CW's. A different type of magic during the second hour, but the same result.

And if anything can possibly do worse than "Good Girls", it is a rerun of "Good Girls". Zoey's mediocre playlist also performed poorly.

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I haven't been keeping up for very long but last Thursday may be the biggest night the "Law & Order" franchise has had in years. It seems to have hurt ABC and even CBS lost a few points. "Young Sheldon" was only green with seniors. Which doesn't make sense because nothing else was really taking away viewers.

NBC also did much better in the 8:00 hour (at least this one time) than they have with comedies. Apparently there is still a mystery to solve with the missing Flight 828.

Not sure what this means but "Smackdown" wasn't even dark green with young people, while "Blue Bloods" was. Of course, "Blue Bloods" gets huge numbers with seniors.

Fox may have made the worst decision since New Coke with "The Moodys", which I'm pretty sure wasn't a rerun.

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I still don't want to take a risk with three days of numbers. Also, I found a mistake in last week's that I have to go fix so I'll be doing that.

"Supergirl" got hit by kryptonite. I did notice "The Con" and "Soul of a Nation" were orange rather than red with young people, but "Supergirl" was the only show Tuesday with a red score with that audience, and "Nancy Drew" on Wednesday. Actually, "This Is Us" looked red but it was a different shade of red.

Even reruns of CBS crime shows get a green.

Fox did about as well with reruns on Tuesday as it has been doing.

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Done at last.

"Kenan" has reached an unfortunate milestone which you can't see when the numbers are rounded. "Young Rock" has been the victim of a smackdown.

"NCIS: New Orleans" only aired once last week but I somehow forgot to remove its much lower numbers from two weeks ago. It appears Agent Pride time traveled.

The CW got the lowest Monday numbers in memory at 9:00.

And "Debris" continues to fall.