Monday:
CTV's 'The Big Bang Theory' began its season with 2.367 million viewers on Monday Sept. 24. This was down heavily from last year's overnight figure (2.952 million); however, still enough to take the top spot on the week. Lead-out 'Young Sheldon' averaged 1.903 million viewers. The Live+7 figures for both shows are the average the Monday and Thursday ratings together so the numbers are not particularly meaningful, but nevertheless, those two figures were: 3.487 million (#1) for the former and 2.489 million (#3) for the latter. 'The Resident' which led off the night at 7 p.m., had 843,000 viewers in L+SD but rose to 1.113 million in L+7 (#25).
'The Good Doctor' averaged 1.504 million viewers on Monday, but rose over 1.1 million viewers in seven-day timeshifting to a total of 2.634 million viewers, second on the week. Impressively, while the L+SD figure for 'Doctor' was down from its premiere last fall (1.82 million), it's L+7 figure was actually higher than last fall's timeshifted number (2.61 million). 'Magnum PI' also had a solid start on CTV, averaging 1.301 million overnight viewers and 2.018 million in L+7 (#8).
Over on City, 'Dancing with the Stars' (580,000) led into the series-premiere of 'Manifest' (512,000), the latter which barely cracked the Top 30 this week, averaging only 962,000 viewers in L+7 (#30). On Global, '9-1-1' (1.518 million) saw tremendous growth from its 'NCIS: New Orleans' (917,000) lead-in, while 'Bull' (1.273 million) also performed well. In L+7, those three shows averaged 2.187M (#6), 1.240M (#22), and 1.844M (#11) respectively.
On CBC, 'Murdoch Mysteries' (known as 'The Artful Detective' in the U.S.) averaged 735,000 overnight viewers (997,000 in L+7), and 'Frankie Drake' had 460,000. TSN's 'Monday Night Football' had 593,000, and CTV2's 'The Voice' had 464,000.
Tuesday:
Global's premiere of 'FBI' led the Tuesday ratings with 2.267 million total viewers (#4). The premiere of 'New Amsterdam' saw tremendous retention behind its 'FBI' lead-in, averaging 2.244 million viewers (#5), while 'NCIS,' which led off the night, averaged 1.938 million viewers (#10). Elsewhere, CTV's 'This Is Us' had 1.952 million viewers (#9) behind its 'The Voice' (1.208 million, #23) lead-in.
Wednesday:
The top program on Wednesday was Global's 90-minute episode of 'Survivor' (2.052 million, #7) which led into the season finale of 'Big Brother' (1.687 million, #13). 'Grey's Anatomy' had 1.816 million on CTV (#12). While 'Survivor' lost about 200K viewers from its premiere last fall (2.239M), 'Grey's Anatomy' was relatively stable year-to-year (1.881M).
Thursday:
CTV's 'Law & Order: SVU' (1.442 million, #16), Global's 'S.W.A.T' (1.273 million, #21), and City's 'Murphy Brown' (1.18 million, #24) all made the top 30 this week. Of note, 'Murphy Brown' had 751,000 viewers in L+SD.
Friday:
CTV's 'Blue Bloods' (1.599 million, #14) reined supreme on Friday, on top of both Global's 'Hawaii Five-0' (1.572 million, #15) and 'MacGyver' (1.323 million, #20).
Saturday:
Global's airing of 'Saturday Night Live' (1.326 million, #19) was the top Saturday program. The show was remarkably up from its premiere last fall which had only 1.142 million viewers.
Sunday:
Global's 'NCIS: Los Angeles' (1.385 million, #18) and CTV's 'God Friended Me' (1.058 million, #27) were the only programs to make the list.
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Live+7 data data unless otherwise stated, Numeris