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Thursday TV Ratings, 4/23/20: ’Will & Grace’ Drops For Final Episode, ’NFL Draft’ Leads

Here are the final broadcast ratings for Thursday, April 23, 2020.

Photo Credit: Chris Haston/NBC

Preliminary Analysis: NBC's 'Will & Grace' (0.5) bowed out for the second time on NBC, down a tenth from last week. Although leagues below its original 2006 series finale (8.4), it at least managed not to hit a new low. It led into a 9:30pm retrospective (0.5) and the 21st season finale of 'Law & Order: SVU' (0.7). 'SVU' was even week-to-week and with its year-ago finale. There was brighter news in the 8pm hour as both 'Superstore' (0.7) and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' (0.6) were steady with last week and both up a notch from their year-ago closers (0.6 & 0.5).

ABC preempted their regular Thursday lineup in favor of the 'NFL Draft' (1.6). It effortlessly trumped last year's result (1.1) and was well above what a normal 'Station 19' would do.

CBS's 'Man with a Plan' (0.6) and 'Broke' (0.6) each lost a tenth as their lead-ins (0.6/0.6) went into repeat mode. Fox's 'Last Man Standing' (0.6) held steady at its low, leading into more encores (0.5/0.3). The CW had another helping of 0.1s with stable 'Katy Keene' and 'In the Dark'.

Finals Update: The 'NFL Draft' (1.4, -0.2) adjusted down while 'Man with a Plan' (0.7, +0.1) and 'Last Man Standing' (0.7, +0.1) adjusted up.

Time	Show	18-49 Rating/ Share	Viewers (mil)	Channel
8 PM	NFL Draft 2020	1.4/7	5.69	ABC
	Last Man Standing	0.7/3	4.14	FOX
	Superstore (F)	0.7/3	3.01	NBC
	Young Sheldon (R)	0.6/3	5.75	CBS
	Katy Keene	0.1/0	0.48	CW
8:30 PM	Man With a Plan	0.7/3	5.84	CBS
	Brooklyn Nine-Nine (F)	0.6/3	2.24	NBC
	Last Man Standing (R)	0.5/2	2.83	FOX
9 PM	Mom (R)	0.5/2	4.84	CBS
	Will & Grace (SF)	0.5/2	3.14	NBC
	Mental Samurai (R)	0.3/1	1.51	FOX
	In the Dark	0.1/0	0.39	CW
9:30 PM	Broke	0.6/3	4.78	CBS
	Will & Grace Retrospective	0.5/2	2.97	NBC
10 PM	Law & Order: SVU (F)	0.7/3	3.69	NBC
	Tommy	0.5/2	4.62	NBC

(R) = Repeat

(F) = Finale

(SF) = Series Finale

Law & Order: SVU Ratings (Season 22, 2020-21)

	A18-49 L+SD	A18-49 L+3	A18-49 L+7	M18-49	W18-49
1	0.59	1.13	1.27	0.5	0.7
2	0.52	1.11		0.4	0.7
3	0.63		1.25
4	0.65
5	0.64
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Avg	0.61	1.12	1.26	0.45	0.70
2019-20	0.67	1.31	1.44	0.49	0.84
2018-19	0.83	1.60	1.80	0.60	1.06

	A18-34	M18-34	W18-34	A25-54	M25-54	W25-54
1	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.8	0.6	1.0
2	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.7	0.6	0.9
3	0.3			1.0
4	0.27			1.01
5	0.31			0.96
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Avg	0.32	0.25	0.40	0.89	0.60	0.95
2019-20	0.35	0.28	0.42	0.95	0.67	1.20
2018-19	0.46	0.33	0.60	1.13	0.82	1.43

	Viewers L+SD	Viewers L+3	Viewers L+7	HH	Age
1	3.024	5.129	5.581	2.0	60.6
2	2.949			2.0	61.3
3	4.186		6.552
4	3.859
5	3.833
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Avg	3.570	5.129	5.581	2.00	61.00
2019-20	3.62	6.01	6.45	2.46	60.99
2018-19	4.13			2.80	59.98