Thursday TV Ratings 6/22/23: NBA Draft Rises from 2022, The Blacklist Slips After Week Off, The Miracle Children of the Amazon Special Weak (UPDATED)

Ratings Analysis: The '2023 NBA Draft' (0.44) grew by nearly 13% from the '2022 Draft' (0.39) in the Adults 18-49 demographic and led ABC to a Thursday-night victory. 'The Blacklist' (0.21, -0.04) lost four-hundredths on NBC and lost to CBS's rerun of 'Young Sheldon' (0.25) head-on. NBC finished out the evening with reruns of 'Law & Order: SVU' (0.16) and 'Magnum PI' (0.14). Outside of 'Sheldon', CBS had encores of 'Ghosts' (0.20), 'So Help Me Todd' (0.19), and 'CSI: Vegas' (0.14). On Fox, the 'TMZ Investigates' special about the Miracle Children of the Amazon (0.21) posted a run-of-the-mill rating (by Fox summer standards). That telecast was followed by a rerun of 'Stars on Mars' (0.14) that was only a few ticks behind first-run episodes. The CW went with repeats of 'Walker' (0.04) and 'Penn & Teller: Fool Us' (0.04).

Finals Update: The repeat of 'Law & Order: SVU' (+0.1) adjusted up. The repeat of 'Stars on Mars' (-0.1) adjusted down.

Time	Show	18-49 Rating	18-49 Share	Viewers (mil)	Network
8 PM	2023 NBA Draft	0.44	5.4	2.22	ABC
	Young Sheldon (R)	0.25	3.1	3.31	CBS
	The Blacklist	0.21	2.6	2.47	NBC
	TMZ Investigates: The Miracle Children of the Amazon	0.21	2.6	1.45	Fox
	Walker (R)	0.04	0.5	0.31	The CW
8:30 PM	Ghosts (R)	0.20	2.4	2.64	CBS
9 PM	So Help Me Todd (R)	0.19	2.1	2.36	CBS
	Law & Order: SVU (R)	0.16	1.8	2.31	NBC
	Stars on Mars (R)	0.14	1.6	0.70	Fox
	Penn & Teller: Fool Us (R)	0.04	0.5	0.36	The CW
10 PM	Magnum PI (R)	0.14	1.8	1.58	NBC
	CSI: Vegas (R)	0.14	1.7	1.87	CBS