Weekly Broadcast Ratings: ABC Wednesday Falls, but Tuesday Rises in Week 6

ABC's Wednesday comedy line-up saw concerning week-to-week-declines for the week ending November 4, 2018. 'Modern Family' and 'The Goldbergs' each lost three tenths in unrounded ratings  from last week's finals, 'American Housewife' lost two tenths, and 'Single Parents' lost a tenth (0.14 unrounded).

Top Comedies Chart: Cooper Barrett and The Simpsons Rise

	Show	Rating	Last Time
1	The Big Bang Theory	3.95
2	Modern Family	2.76
3	The Simpsons	2.21	4
4	The Goldbergs	2.15	3
5	The Middle	2.04
6	Life in Pieces	2.03
7	Blackish	1.87
8	Mom	1.66
9	Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life	1.65	NE
10	2 Broke Girls	1.61	9
11	Mike & Molly	1.58	NE
12	Family Guy	1.56	10
13	Superstore	1.54	11
14	The Muppets	1.52	12
15	Brooklyn 9-9	1.52	13

NE=new entry

FOX

A little shake-up was made to the top comedy list this week, as football heavily inflated Sunday's ratings of The Simpsons and Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life. The Simpsons season average jumped a tenth and a half, pulling ahead of The Goldbergs for the #3 spot. It looks increasingly unlikely that The Middle or Life in Pieces will catch up to it, though when The Simpsons settles in the mid 1s this spring, where its true strength lies, it will certainly fall a little in the rankings.

Cooper Barrett, which premiered to a 1.2, now comes in as #9 through the power of football. Superstore has fallen down to #13 after almost having a chance of making it into the Top 10 last week. And most notably, Mike & Molly enters as #11, not bad for a comedy cancelled before the season began.