SHADES OF BLUE went quite a bit darker 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: The essentially canceled HEROES REBORN (a “limited series” the network says won’t be coming back) was steady at 1.0. THE BLACKLIST slipped 0.1 to 1.5. The night’s bad news was the half-point slump for SHADES OF BLUE, which won its hour against negligible competition, but fell to an unremarkable 1.3, switching from beating its lead-in to falling behind it.
CBS: THE BIG BANG THEORY, LIFE IN PIECES, MOM and ELEMENTARY were each down 0.1, respectively to 3.7, 2.0, 1.7 and 1.1. The hit was harder for ANGEL FROM HELL, down 0.3 in its 2d outing to 1.3, a number that won’t cut it on CBS.
FOX: AMERICAN IDOL dropped half a point to 2.2, which was also down 0.4 from the parallel night last year.
ABC: BEYOND THE TANK stayed at 1.0, and MY DIET IS BETTER THAN YOURS got 0.1 weaker at 0.6.
CW: THE WORLD DOG AWARDS barked up 0.3.
All the networks are new tonight, including the return of HELL’S KITCHEN on FOX.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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