It was NASCAR’s 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: The network did about as little to help the season finale of THE CARMICHAEL SHOW as humanly possible, marooning it on a holiday weekend after the regular season’s end, between an early DATELINE (0.4) and reruns. The result was a dreadful 0.4, down 0.1 from last week. A 2-hour rerun of AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR was comparatively strong, rising out of a 0.3 CARMICHAEL SHOW rerun with 0.9.
FOX: The night’s NASCAR race easily won the night at 1.3.
CBS: After 0.6 for 60 MINUTES, reruns were led by 0.6 for UNDERCOVER BOSS.
ABC: A run of the 2d HARRY POTTER movie at 0.6, the same as its rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS lead-in.
Tonight will be much busier, as SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE and MISTRESSES rejoin the FOX and ABC summer line-ups. On cable, History/A&E/Lifetime/Lifetime Movie Network begin their 4-night simulcast of the new ROOTS, and MTV reboots SCREAM with an 11PM timeslot, unusual for a scripted series. NBC airs Game 1 of the STANLEY CUP FINALS, but it–very possibly like everything else on TV–may be dominated by Game 7 of the Golden State vs. Oklahoma City NBA PLAYOFFS on TNT.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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