The good news for ABC is that in the absence of football, it’s clear leader on Thursday; the bad is that its serialized shows are just a few weeks away from taking months-long breaks.
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.
ABC: GREY’S ANATOMY dipped 0.1 from its last new episode (it was preempted last week) to 2.4, and SCANDAL lost 0.2 to 2.9, but HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER gained 0.1 to 2.8.
CBS: We won’t really know until this afternoon how CBS fared last night, because its Cleveland affiliate preempted the line-up to simulcast the NFL Thursday Night Football game. For now, BIG BANG THEORY is up 0.1 to 4.2, MOM is also up 0.1 to 2.6, 2 1/2 MEN is down 0.1 to 2.3, THE MCCARTHYS is steady at 1.7, and ELEMENTARY is up 0.2 to 1.4.
NBC: The network had the Cincinnati part of the NFL simulast, so its numbers are shaky. Right now, THE BIGGEST LOSER is up 0.2 to 1.3, the canceled BAD JUDGE and A TO Z are up 0.2/0.3 to 1.1/1.0, and PARENTHOOD is up 0.3 to 1.4.
FOX: BONES was steady at 1.3, but GRACEPOINT lost 0.1 to 0.7.
CW: Both THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and REIGN were down 0.1, to 0.7/0.4.
All the networks air their regular line-ups tonight.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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