Prime Time TV Ratings Week October 17-23

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Viewers in millions

1. NFL CBS 23.2
2. Sunday Night Football NBC 16.3
3. Thursday Night Football Fox 13.0
4. 60 Minutes CBS 11.0
5. NCIS CBS 7.7

6. Chicago Fire NBC 7.4
7. The Equalizer CBS 7.3
7. Pre-Game Show Fox 7.3
9. Chicago Med NBC 6.8
10. The Voice (Tue) NBC 6.7

11. The Voice (Mon) NBC 6.4
11. Young Sheldon CBS 6.4
13. Blue Bloods CBS 6.1
14. Chicago PD NBC 5.6
14. NCIS: Los Angeles CBS 5.6

14. Survivor CBS 5.6
17. NCIS: Hawaii CBS 5.4
18. The Neighborhood CBS 5.3
19. Football Night in America NBC 5.2
19. Ghosts CBS 5.2

19. 9-1-1 Fox 5.2
22. La Brea NBC 5.1
22. Magnum PI CBS 5.1
24. Bob ❤ Abishola CBS 5.0
24. Dancing with the Stars ABC 5.0

26. S.W.A.T. CBS 4.7
27. Station 19 ABC 4.6
28. The Masked Singer Fox 4.5
29. United States of Al CBS 4.4
29. America's Funniest Home Videos ABC 4.4

31. Celebrity Wheel of Fortune ABC 4.2
31. FBI: Most Wanted CBS 4.2
33. FBI CBS 3.9
33. Grey's Anatomy ABC 3.9
33. Law and Order: SVU NBC 3.9

36. B Positive CBS 3.8
36. Bull CBS 3.8
38. FBI: International CBS 3.6
38. Shark Tank ABC 3.6
40. CSI: Vegas CBS 3.5

41. New Amsterdam NBC 3.4
41. SEAL Team CBS 3.4
43. College Football ABC 3.3
43. The Resident Fox 3.3
45. Blacklist NBC 3.1

46. The Bachelorette ABC 3.0
46. Law and Order: Organized Crime NBC 3.0
48. The Goldbergs ABC 2.9
48. Notre Dame Football NBC 2.9
48. 20/20 ABC 2.9

51. Big Sky ABC 2.8
51. The Rookie ABC 2.8
51. Tough As Nails CBS 2.8
54. Dateline NBC 2.6
55. Supermarket Sweep ABC 2.5

56. 48 Hours CBS 2.4
56. Ordinary Joe NBC 2.4
58. Crimetime (9pm) CBS 2.3
59. Alter Ego Fox 2.2
59. Crimetime (8pm) CBS 2.2

50. WWE Friday Night Smackdown (Fri) Fox 2.2
62. The Wonder Years ABC 2.1
63. The Conners ABC 1.8
63. Queens ABC 1.8
63. Superstar ABC 1.8

66. Home Economics ABC 1.7
66. Real Queens of Hip-Hop ABC 1.7
68. The Simpsons (8pm) Fox 1.5
69. Family Guy Fox 1.4
69. Home Sweet Home NBC 1.4

69. Our Kind of People Fox 1.4
72. The Simpsons (7pm) Fox 1.3
73. The Big Leap Fox 1.2
73. Bob's Burgers (9pm) Fox 1.2
75. Great North Fox 1.0

76. Bob's Burgers (7:30) Fox 0.9
77. Penn & Teller: Fool Us CW 0.6
77. WWE Friday Night Smackdown (Sat) Fox 0.6
79. Batwoman CW 0.5
79. Coroner CW 0.5

79. DC's Legends of Tomorrow CW 0.5
79. Stargirl CW 0.5
79. World's Funniest Animals (9pm) CW 0.5
79. World's Funniest Animals (9:30) CW 0.5
79. Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Sat 8:30) CW 0.5

86. Howie Mandel & Friends CW 0.4
86. Supergirl CW 0.4
86. Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Sat 8pm) CW 0.4
89. Legacies 0.3
89. Nancy Drew CW 0.3

89. Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Mon) CW 0.3
92. Killer Camp CW 0.2
92. Legends of the Hidden Temple CW 0.2

CW

1..................…..77. Penn & Teller: Fool Us CW 0.6
2..................….79. Batwoman CW 0.5
2................…….79. Coroner CW 0.5
2.................……79. DC's Legends of Tomorrow CW 0.5
2............,,,....…79. Stargirl CW 0.5

2.................……79. Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Sat 8:30) CW 0.5
2.................……79. World's Funniest Animals (9pm) CW 0.5
2.................……79. World's Funniest Animals (9:30) CW 0.5
9..................……86. Howie Mandel & Friends CW 0.4
9............,,,....86. Supergirl CW 0.4

9.................……86. Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Sat 8pm) CW 0.4
12.................……89. Legacies CW 0.3
12....................……89. Nancy Drew CW 0.3
12.................……89. Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Mon) CW 0.3
15...................……92. Killer Camp CW 0.2

15...................……92. Legends of the Hidden Temple CW 0.2

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I left a show out last week after all! It was in the list of CW shows, but not the main list. Fixed now. Also got the times wrong for two weeks in a row for "Whose Line".

And "Whose Line" continues to fall. Curiously, the second one does better, even if it is a rerun.

Last week Fox had to pre-empt "Smackdown" for baseball. Putting an extra episode on Saturday a week later did not work. Not even with the target audience, where it normally does very well.

And Penn & Teller aren't exactly making the magic happen.

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Well, this is embarrassing. I left out two shows last week, in addition to "48 Hours" which I thought about when I saw those words just after I finished.

"Ghosts" was invisible in last week's list. It isn't now. It's doing quite well. This happens when a show airs twice and I have to move it to a different place for the second airing.

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CW shows continue to slide. And I don't know what the point was in waiting a week for the two Monday shows. "Walker" does come back next week.

You can tell "The FBIs" as they are called were reruns.

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That's it. Here are some observations and cautions.

I hated to just leave an hour and a half of NBC on Sunday night without a number of some sort, even though I just left that number out on another week. I used the preliminary number from another site, which is unreliable. The numbers for sports programs change drastically when final results are in, and the numbers go up dramatically when all three or four time periods are shown. And you don't really care about the NBC pre-game reports, do you?

Don't get concerned about "The Bachelorette". Its numbers with young people are spectacular.

The Hidden temple just got even more hidden, and Joe even more ordinary.

Someone please explain how CBS shows actually went down slightly once "60 Minutes" (which always benefits) after a football game.

I hope everything was done right this week because last week I really messed up. Back next week.

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I had a problem today and don't have time for ratings, but I'll get to them tomorrow.