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CBS Relative Ratings--2016-17
Undercover Boss Ratings--Season 8 (2016-17)
Of the three reality shows CBS aired Wednesdays at 8pm this season--Survivor, Undercover Boss, and Hunted--Undercover Boss was the lowest-rated. Granted, it held up well when having to air so close to Christmas, and at...
The Wall Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
The Wall is very clearly not a 10pm show; while it posted a 1.2 in A18-49 at 10pm after The Celebrity Apprentice, it jumped up to a 1.7 self-starting the next night. It slowly but surely dropped down to a 1.4 by the end,...
The Great American Baking Show--Season 2 (2016-17)
The Great American Baking Show saw mixed results. While its premiere's retention wasn't perfect (1.0 out of a 1.5 in A18-49), it had 100% retention from its lead-in the following week, and finished at the same rating that...
The Great Christmas Light Fight Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
The Great Christmas Light Fight is basically winter filler, but it's good winter filler. It started at an OK 1.1 A18-49 rating and stayed there. It only lost 6% of its raw audience in that demographic and finished at 90%...
Star Ratings--Season 1 (2017)
FOX has impressively held off on starting a musical drama phase just because of Empire's success. In fact, Star is the only one, and it hails from the creator of Empire too. In its first season, it bridged for Empire to...
Life in Pieces Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
It's not really a surprise that Life in Pieces fell hard when moved away from The Big Bang Theory. It's also not surprising that it didn't see the finale bump that Mom did given the difference in tone between the two shows....
Mom Ratings--Season 4 (2016-17)
You might wonder why two of Mom's best data points of the season came at the very end: The Great Indoors was no longer its lead-in. Mom shows that it still has strength going into its 5th season, and is a very underrated...
The Great Indoors Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
The Great Indoors was clearly CBS's weakest comedy this season. While airing after The Big Bang Theory masked that for the majority of the season, its move to Monday for the last two episodes showed weakness. It had a...
Man with a Plan Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
Man with a Plan did what it was supposed to do, which was to hold on to Kevin Can Wait's audience decently. While it may not have had that high premiere Kevin had, its spring ratings were decent given the lead-in and it...
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
The first season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend had historically low ratings, but also awards love and apparently is a solid streaming player. This season, albeit low rated, was incredibly steady in A18-49. While its fan base...
The Vampire Diaries Ratings--Season 8 (2016-17)
The Vampire Diaries was a staple show for The CW for years. While it didn't finish quite as well as it started, for a Friday night on The CW, the final season of The Vampire Diaries didn't do all that bad. Those 0.3s in...
Caught on Camera Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)
Caught on Camera's ratings were abysmally low, but then again it didn't seem like it was meant to last permanently either. At the very least, it seemed that Dateline was doing better airing after it than after something...
2 Broke Girls Ratings--Season 6 (2016-17)
2 Broke Girls did a decent job at holding down the 9:30pm time slot in the spring compared to The Odd Couple, but there really was no compelling reason for CBS to renew it over the shows on earlier in the night, which...
Supergirl Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
Supergirl fell a ton from last season, though that's to be expected given it moved to The CW. I do wish it held up better from its first few episodes though; it showed that it is capable of pulling in top-tier ratings...
Frequency Ratings--Season 1 (2016)
Frequency was a flop, so much so that The CW basically admitted it verbally. Contrary to what The CW typically does, this one didn't even make it through the season. Given it was based on a movie and aired after Arrow,...
Arrow Ratings--Season 5 (2016-17)
Superhero fatigue may be setting in for Arrow, as the show that started it all shed a third of its Live + Same Day audience in A18-49 this season. It's still doing impressive in M18-34, almost tying the A18-49 demographic,...
Supernatural Ratings--Season 12 (2016-17)
Supernatural is a show that was around before The CW was, and it still holds up better than most other shows on the network over a decade after it premiered. Given it moved to Thursday at 8pm, the 0.5s towards the end...
DC's Legends of Tomorrow Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
DC's Legends of Tomorrow started the season fine on Thursday nights, but midseason The CW decided to give it an upgrade by airing behind The Flash on Tuesdays. It didn't really seem to make the most out of it, but still...
Chicago Fire--Season 5 (2016-17)
Chicago Fire is still the strongest Chicago show. It didn't hurt that it got to air after This Is Us in the fall, but even though retention out of it looked weak, by now it's clear that Fire is very lead-in independent....
The Real O'Neals Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
The Real O'Neals didn't exactly do great in its first season, but still was renewed due to ABC's intent on having a two-hour comedy block on Tuesdays. Its first data point this season--a 1.2 A18-49 demo rating out of a...
Fresh Off The Boat Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)
Poor Fresh Off The Boat has been sticking around but not much more over the past two seasons. Its first season was a somewhat surprising success story, but it's faltered since with heavy competition. Despite the data points...
American Housewife Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
American Housewife did what it could against heavy competition. It usually didn't drop all that much from its lead-in, if at all. Next season it will be getting a much-deserved tryout behind Modern Family. The only concern...
The Middle Ratings--Season 8 (2016-17)
The Middle held remarkably steady on Wednesdays and rose in relative ratings significantly in all but one season. That being said, it wasn't itself on its move to Tuesday, hitting numerous new series lows and a 3-year...
No Tomorrow Ratings--Season 1
No Tomorrow got to air behind The Flash and completely blew it. Even if you argue that it's lead-in independent, it's doing numbers that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend does on a Friday. The CW doesn't often cancel shows in their...
The Flash Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)
The Flash is the one show on The CW that is really competitive with the shows on the other networks, now at 86% of the Big 4 A18-49 league average. In fact, it even beat FOX in the time slot. Superhero fatigue does seem...
Code Black Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
Not everybody expected Code Black to be renewed for a second season, and when it was, many expected it to improve. It didn't. While still renewed for a third season, it lost 24% of its audience in A18-49 this season, and...
Criminal Minds Ratings--Season 12 (2016-17)
After seeing a major cast departure, Season 12 of Criminal Minds had the lowest relative ratings average since Season 3. It also fell 22% in raw ratings this season, which although not great, was actually a healthier trend...
Last Man Standing Ratings--Season 6 (2016-17)
Last Man Standing was down 4% from last season's A18-49 ratings, meaning that once again it had its strongest Friday season. Like Hawaii 5-0 and Blue Bloods, Last Man Standing finished at 94% of the league average in A18-49,...
Dr. Ken Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
Given how well Last Man Standing held up, Dr. Ken really should have done better. Being a presumably cheap multi-cam, there was seemingly a chance for renewal, but ultimately it didn't get one. It stayed in the same time...
Shark Tank Ratings--Season 8 (2016-17)
It's hard to say what's up with Shark Tank. It's down 18% in raw A18-49 ratings from last season, and while the league average isn't done much less than that, we're talking about a casual reality show that has held up...
20/20 Ratings--Season 39 (2016-17)
20/20 appears to be not only story-dependent, but also lead-in dependent. This can be seen by when it had Shark Tank reruns as a lead-in and dropped significantly. It's lost some ground to Dateline and Blue Bloods and...
MacGyver Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
Upon first glance, MacGyver put up passage, but not hit-worthy, ratings. When you look at the bigger picture and see that it self-started on Friday nights against Last Man Standing and Hell's Kitchen, not to mention put...
Hawaii 5-0 Ratings--Season 7 (2016-17)
Hawaii 5-0 clearly benefited from having MacGyver as a lead-in. Even though its lead-in wasn't drastically different in ratings from last season, MacGyver was more compatible with it and as a result prevented Hawaii 5-0...
Blue Bloods Ratings--Season 7 (2016-17)
Blue Bloods continues to get stronger every season. Despite still airing at Fridays at 10pm, it managed to have its best season in relative ratings in A18-49 yet. The fact that it took this long to see a rating under a...
Hell's Kitchen Ratings--Season 16 (2016-17)
Hell's Kitchen was almost even in raw A18-49 ratings this season, which is a huge accomplishment given it had to air the majority of its season on Friday. This is compared to last season, when oftentimes it got to air...
The Exorcist Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
The Exorcist was a known property prior to premiering, so it's a little disappointing that it didn't pull in higher ratings. Its retention out of Hell's Kitchen was mediocre at best. That being said, in terms of relative...
Dateline NBC Ratings--Season 25 (2016-17)
Dateline is only down 9% in raw A18-49 ratings this season and has been beating 20/20 on a regular basis. Although it's always been a story-based show, as in it rises and falls based on that night's content, it does seem...
The Blacklist Ratings--Season 4 (2016-17)
The Blacklist was remarkably steady throughout the season, yet was down 31% in raw A18-49 ratings from last season. This would be due in part to being serialized and airing at the lower-viewed 10pm. This is typically a...
Chicago Med Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
Chicago Med looked to be one of the most promising new shows last season when it aired between The Voice and Chicago Fire, but didn't hold up as well on Thursdays. By the spring, it was the brightest part of Thursday,...
The Good Place Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
If you take out the series premiere, The Good Place started decently and more or less stayed that way. I would have liked to see it rise for its finale, but given the first part aired at 8pm without support from Superstore,...
Superstore Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
Superstore received tons of promotion over the summer, including airing an Olympic-themed episode after a night of the Olympics. It did a solid job at the beginning of the season, but airing at 8pm during Daylight Savings...
Pitch Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
Dan Fogelman provided broadcast television with two new dramas this season: This is Us and Pitch. As the ratings show, the former did a bit better than the latter. It grew out of or tied its Rosewood lead-in many times,...
Rosewood Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
Upon first glance, Rosewood seemingly had good ratings in its first season. However, it was very reliant on Empire pre-tune and collapsed when asked to self-start Thursday nights. It does deserve credit for its mini-rise...
How to Get Away with Murder Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)
How to Get Away with Murder saw another steep decline--32% in A18-49 raw ratings to be exact--due to its serialized nature. It's also clear that it's reliant on Scandal, as most of the above-average ratings came when Scandal...
Notorious Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
It seemed that Notorious was more to air something before Scandal came back midseason than to actually last long. It premiered low, and while it stayed steady in the second week, things just got worse from there. When...
Grey's Anatomy Ratings--Season 13 (2016-17)
Grey's Anatomy has been on the air since 2005, and is still doing relatively well. While fellow TGIT shows Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder have peaked a couple seasons ago and since fallen, Grey's Anatomy has gotten...
Chicago PD--Season 4 (2016-17)
Chicago PD dropped in raw A18-49 ratings less than any other scripted show on NBC, and it didn't even have a time slot upgrade. It's also their #3 scripted show, only behind This is Us and Chicago Fire. Despite this, it...
Law & Order: SVU Ratings--Season 18 (2016-17)
Law & Order: SVU technically premiered before this millennium even began. It's one of NBC's unsung heroes. Not only does it keep the Law & Order franchise alive after the 2010 cancelations of both the original...
Empire Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)
Oh Empire...where to begin. On the bright side, it is still doing better in W18-34 than A18-49 in raw ratings, which is very impressive. But it's just looking more and more like the downfall of Glee. This season, it fell...
Lethal Weapon Ratings--Season 1
Lethal Weapon was lucky enough to air Wednesday at 8pm before Empire this season. While its numbers with Empire were certainly better than the ones when it aired alongside Star, this show held up so much better than Rosewood...
Survivor Ratings--Seasons 33 and 34 (2016-17)
Survivor is really an unsung hero. While it obviously isn't what it used to be in raw ratings back in its earlier seasons, the show is one of CBS's highest-rated and is seemingly covered in the media more than most other...
Designated Survivor Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
Designated Survivor was one of the most anticipated, if not the most anticipated, new show going into the 2016 upfronts. In fact, it was picked up early, before Paul Lee exited in February 2016. It didn't do terrible for...
Blackish Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)
Blackish got to spend a third straight season behind Modern Family. At this point, it doesn't seem to be *that* reliant on its lead-in, and this year it dropped a tiny bit less than Modern Family did. It spent another...
Modern Family Ratings--Season 8 (2016-17)
Modern Family fell a tiny bit more than The Goldbergs did this season as a result of the lineup change. A key difference, though, is Modern Family stayed where it's aired since 2009 and has always grown out of its lead-in....
Speechless Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
I initially predicted that Speechless would flop. However, its retention from The Goldbergs is a stellar 90%. Although the time slot is down significantly year-to-year, that was to be expected. It is unclear if Speechless...
The Goldbergs Ratings--Season 4 (2016-17)
The Goldbergs moved to 8pm to decent results. While it didn't hold up nearly as well as it did last season when it was still sandwiched between The Middle and Modern Family, it also didn't fall any more than Modern Family...
This is Us Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
This is Us is the epitome of a success story, the #1 new freshmen show since Empire. While raw ratings across the board are declining, the ratings of This is Us are only going up. In fact, it gained a full ratings point...
The Voice (Tuesday) Ratings--Seasons 11 and 12
The Voice's fall Tuesday cycle was quite the accomplishment; while Monday's A18-49 ratings were down 20% in raw ratings, Tuesday was only down 10%. It's debatable whether or not it had some This is Us pre-tune, but even...
Scream Queens Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
In 2015, Scream Queens was one of the most highly-anticipated new show. The first season didn't do all that great in Live + Same Day ratings, but reportedly more than made up for that with non-linear platforms. However,...
New Girl Ratings--Season 6 (2016-17)
New Girl was once FOX's flagship live-action sitcom, and while it still holds its own, its ratings weren't exactly great either. It deserves the final season that FOX gave it for the 2017-18 season, and even though it...
Brooklyn Nine-Nine Ratings--Season 4 (2016-17)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine had a decent first half of the season airing at 8pm on Tuesdays for FOX. While not a huge hit, Brooklyn Nine-Nine properly started off their night against the likes of NCIS, The Voice, The Middle, and...
NCIS: NO Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)
NCIS: NO had the misfortune of traveling to 10pm this season, and shed a third of its audience in A18-49 as a result. Given that it's a spin-off of a hit show and a procedural, it really should have held up better than...
Bull Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
Bull, which stars a former NCIS lead, was the perfect companion for NCIS. While it started off better than it finished, and rarely rose from the previous episode's ratings, Bull was still one of the biggest success stories...
NCIS Ratings--Season 14 (2016-17)
While it is definitely an achievement to self-start after over a decade on the air, NCIS really isn't what it once was due to the departure of a major cast member. This season, it lost 22% of its A18-49 audience despite...
Marvel's Agents of SHIELD Ratings--Season 4 (2016-17)
While Marvel's Agents of SHIELD doesn't look particularly healthy upon first glance, keep in mind that it had to endure low-rated, incompatible lead-ins and aired in a historically time slot for ABC. Also, compared to...
The Good Place Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
For a niche, high-concept comedy on a network that hasn't done all that well in that department in the last several years, The Good Place did well. Ignoring the special post-Voice premiere, The Good Place didn't drop all...
Thursday Night Football Ratings--Fall 2016
Thursday Night Football was only down a tiny bit more than Sunday Night Football was in raw A18-49 ratings, and it's still a highly-coveted show for advertisers to place ads. It's pretty clear that the ratings depended...
Blindspot Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
Blindspot was down 44% year-to-year due to moving away from The Voice and asked to self-start on Wednesday. It did relatively better in A18-49 than The Mysteries of Laura did there last season, though it was still the...
Timeless Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
Timeless didn't exactly have great ratings after The Voice, and it got even worse when it aired after The Celebrity Apprentice towards the latter half of its run. As a result, it was canceled. And then renewed two days...
The Voice (Monday) Ratings--Seasons 11 and 12 (2016-17)
The Voice is one of the highest-rated shows on television and helped improve NBC's schedule when it first launched. This year, five shows got the fortune of airing after The Voice, and some more have aired special episodes...
Lucifer Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
Lucifer's ratings track record reminds me a good bit of The Last Man On Earth's. Both shows started off really well in their first seasons and while they came down to earth by the end of their short first season, they...
Gotham Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)
Gotham did OK this season. Could have been a little better, but it's still one of FOX's most stable and reliable shows. Next season it will be trusted to help out their Thursday nights. The key to it getting a good grade...
Jane the Virgin Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)
Jane the Virgin doesn't seem to be all that reliant on Supergirl as a lead-in, and as such it will move to Friday for its 4th season. It is tough to say how it will do; typically, CW shows moving to Fridays don't drop...
Supergirl Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
After a high-profile launch, Supergirl quickly lost a good deal of its audience on CBS. Due to that, it moved to The CW for its second season, and CEO Mark Pedowitz said he expected it to be a top 3 show for them. Assuming...
Scorpion Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)
Scorpion was one of CBS's highest-rated dramas for the last two seasons, but being pushed back to 10pm was nicer on the time slot than it was for the show itself. In fact, it lost a third of its audience in A18-49. It...
The Odd Couple Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)
The Odd Couple surprised a lot of people--possibly including CBS--by actually doing decently despite its afterthought scheduling. Unfortunately, it didn't really make a case for renewal this season, constantly being the...
2 Broke Girls Ratings--Season 6 (2016-17)
2 Broke Girls didn't really do any worse (or better) than most of CBS's sitcoms this season, but it needed to do a little bit more than that to be renewed. When Superior Donuts started doing as well as it, it seemed its...
Man with a Plan Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
Most sitcoms airing at the top of the hour have something very compatible airing after it, so it made sense to air Man with a Plan after Kevin Can Wait. Although it didn't get the post-Big Bang launch, Man with a Plan...
Kevin Can Wait Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
Kevin Can Wait got the fortune of airing behind The Big Bang Theory towards the beginning of its run, and was one of the better companions to the monster hit ratings-wise. While that 1.3 A18-49 rating on Halloween didn't...
The Big Bang Theory Ratings--Season 10 (2016-17)
The Big Bang Theory is still one of the highest-rated shows on broadcast; it's set to go until at last the season after this upcoming one, and there's also now a single-cam prequel spin-off. It really defines CBS's comedy...
Conviction Ratings--Season 1 (2016-17)
Conviction actually managed to do better than Quantico did in the post-Dancing with the Stars time slot, but its numbers still weren't exactly all that great; especially the 0.1 M18-34 demo it received for its fifth episode....
Dancing with the Stars Ratings--Seasons 23 + 24 (2016-17)
Dancing with the Stars just had its best season in relative A18-49 ratings since 2011. While Castle flamed out at 10pm in its last few seasons and Conviction and Quantico failed to improve, to say the least, Dancing with...
Sunday Night Football Ratings--Fall 2016
There has been a lot of media coverage about football ratings being down, but percentage-wise they aren't really down all that much. An ad spot is still really lucrative for advertisers, even if airing football actually...
Elementary Ratings--Season 5 (2016-17)
Elementary is not around because of first-run ratings, so it's hard not to ignore its performance entirely. This season, it was barely above half the league average in A18-49and didn't look any better in other demographics....
Madam Secretary--Season 3 (2016-17)
Madam Secretary was never a strong show amongst those targeted demographics, and this season was no different. The 1.1s and 1s it was doing at the beginning of the season in A18-49 weren't *that* bad and on par with what...
NCIS: LA Ratings--Season 8 (2016-17)
NCIS: LA had a pretty great season with the time slot change to Sundays at 8pm. Not only did it see a nice football halo boost, but even in the spring it drastically improved the time slot over Madam Secretary. Even its...
60 Minutes Ratings--Season 49 (2016-17)
60 Minutes had a very solid season. As always, it benefits from getting a football lead-in many weeks in the fall, so I like to look more so at its non-football numbers. Airing Sundays at 7pm, 60 Minutes has done one par...
Quantico Ratings--Season 2 (2016-17)
Quantico was very close to record-low retention when it aired after The Bachelor. Either its lead-in independent or would be getting 0.2s on Sunday, but there's really no reason why its ratings should be this low in such...
Once Upon a Time Ratings--Season 6 (2016-17)
Since Once Upon a Time is a family drama, it seems like ABC is semi-obligated to air it at 8pm. As the ratings show, it can no longer be asked to air at 8pm Sundays though. Since the show is seemingly profitable, next...
Secrets & Lies Ratings--Season 2 (Fall 2016)
In its first season, Secrets & Lies started out as a stable player and ended as a mini-Empire, growing in its last few weeks until it hit a series high of a 1.8 A18-49 for the finale. However, it sat out the 2014-15...
America's Funniest Home Videos Ratings--Season 27 (2017-18)
America's Funniest Home Videos used to be a monster hit, and while it is far from those days, it has become ABC Sunday's highest-rated show in the spring. Not many shows see data points in the green that late into the...
The Last Man On Earth Ratings--Season 3 (2016-17)
The Last Man On Earth was a solid, albeit not great, performer for FOX this season. It did around par what New Girl and The Mick have been doing and a little bit better than Brooklyn Nine-Nine. While it airs on Sunday,...
Family Guy Ratings--Season 15 (2016-17)
Family Guy deserves a lot of credit for being about to grow significantly out of Making History and non-football-boosted Son of Zorn. Its A18-49 ratings are down 13%, which given the league average is down more than that...
The Simpsons Ratings--Season 28 (2016-17)
The Simpsons is almost at its 30th season and is still receiving massive football boosts. Since the show is very appealing to advertisers, it will likely continue to get this boost for years to come. This season, it was...
Bob's Burgers Ratings--Season 7 (2016-17)
Bob's Burgers didn't have the best year-to-year trend in terms of scripted shows on FOX this year. It did have the second-best though. Down just 7% in raw A18-49 from last season, Bob's Burgers was actually up in raw...
Son of Zorn Ratings--Season 1 (Fall 2016)
While Son of Zorn premiered well after football, that audience did not stay for its second episode. Many episodes aired under the football halo, but it often had poor retention from The Simpsons. Its fate was sealed with...
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