2018-19 Broadcast Ratings Database (UPDATED)

Welcome to the 2018-19 Broadcast Ratings Database! Click on the show titles below to find the following ratings, all in Live + Same Day:

Adults 18-49
Men 18-49
Women 18-49
Adults 18-34
Men 18-34
Women 18-34
Adults 25-54
Men 25-54
Women 25-54
Households
Total Viewers (in millions)
Average Age
Live + 3 and Live + 7 delayed viewing ratings for A18-49

Credit to Programming Insider for providing the ratings on daily pages, and to SpottedRatings for un-rounded A18-49 ratings when possible.

Overall
Here you can find the average ratings for all broadcast TV shows that aired in the 2018-19 broadcast TV season, excluding summer 2019. The tables are sortable using the legends above the charts.
All
ABC
CBS
The CW
FOX
NBC
Median Ratings

ABC
20/20
American Idol
American Housewife
America's Funniest Home Videos
A Million Little Things
Black-ish
Bless This Mess
Child Support
Dancing With The Stars
Dancing with the Stars: Juniors
For the People
Fresh Off The Boat
Grey's Anatomy
How To Get Away With Murder
Match Game
Modern Family
Schooled
Shark Tank
Single Parents
Speechless
Splitting Up Together
Station 19
The Alec Baldwin Show
The Bachelor
The Conners
The Fix
The Goldbergs
The Good Doctor
The Great American Baking Show
The Great Christmas Light Fight
The Kids Are Alright
The Rookie
Whiskey Cavalier

CBS
60 Minutes
Blue Bloods
Bull
Celebrity Big Brother
Criminal Minds
Fam
FBI
God Friended Me
Happy Together
Hawaii 5-0
Life in Pieces
MacGyver
Madam Secretary
Magnum P.I.
Man with a Plan
Million Dollar Mile
Mom
Murphy Brown
NCIS
NCIS: LA
NCIS: NO
Ransom
SEAL Team
Survivor
S.W.A.T.
The Amazing Race
The Big Bang Theory
The Code
The Enemy Within
The Neighborhood
The Red Line
The World's Best
Young Sheldon

The CW
All American
Arrow
Black Lightning
Charmed
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Dynasty
In the Dark
Jane the Virgin
Legacies
Riverdale
Roswell, New Mexico
Supergirl
Supernatural
The 100
The Flash

FOX
9-1-1
Bob's Burgers
Empire
Family Guy
Gotham
Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back
Hell's Kitchen
Last Man Standing
Lethal Weapon
MasterChef Junior
Mental Samurai
Proven Innocent
Rel
Star
The Cool Kids
The Gifted
The Masked Singer
The Orville
The Passage
The Resident
The Simpsons
Thursday Night Football

NBC
A.P. Bio
America's Got Talent: The Champions
Abby's
Blindspot
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Chicago Fire
Chicago Med
Chicago PD
Dateline NBC
Ellen's Game of Games
Good Girls
I Feel Bad
Law & Order: SVU
Manifest
Midnight, Texas
New Amsterdam
Sunday Night Football
Superstore
The Blacklist
The Enemy Within
The Good Place
The Titan Games
The Village
The Voice (Monday)
The Voice (Tuesday)
This Is Us
Will & Grace
World of Dance

NBC: How the New Shows Are Holding Up (Or Not)

Finally, let's take a look at NBC's freshmen show ratings trajectories. NBC took a different approach than the other networks, only premiering 3 new shows, one of which premiered later than the vast majority of fall shows. Two of them air their full season after The Voice, while one got a post-Voice premiere, and gets to air regularly behind Superstore, their #1 comedy entering the season. So let's see how they're doing!

Timeless
For the most part, Timeless got overshadowed by This is Us in terms of buzz, and the ratings show. While not exactly bad, it should be doing better after The Voice, and went as low as a 1.1 L+SD A18-49 number when The Voice was a recap special (still at a 2.0). There's been data that indicates Timeless is a big C3 and C7 gainer, but the fact that they're replacing it when The Voice's spring cycle rolls around isn't that great of a vote of confidence.

This is Us

This is Us is by far the greatest success of the season, receiving a record-breaking amount of views on its trailer over the summer, and premiering in the high 2s in the L+SD A18-49 demo. In fact, its most recent episode rated at a 2.4 in that demo, growing six tenths out of its Voice lead-in, something that was unheard of until This is Us accomplished it.

The Good Place

Few expected The Good Place to do well, which is why many were surprised by its strong post-Voice premiere numbers. The move to Thursdays definitely shows; it collapsed to the low 1s in the A18-49 L+SD demo, though that's still around on par with the rest of NBC's Thursday nights, and is an integral part of them attempting to rebuild their comedy brand. 

Sporcle Quizzes of the Week- Editor Picked Quizzes Edition/ Sporcle Contest #4 (UPDATED)

Welcome to the fourth edition of the Sporcle Quizzes of the week! I've got three more great quizzes for you, so let's get started!

#1 Board Games Based on TV Shows

I discovered this quiz today while searching for some good quizzes to showcase, and I decided to change this week's theme just to include it. I am the board games curator on Sporcle, so I really liked this. It combined two things that I love. Unfortunately, the Television editor found this before me, so I didn't get the chance to give a Curator Pick to it.
# of Questions: 24
My Score: 19
Correction: The initial version of this article incorrectly listed the number of questions as 25. It is actually 24.
#2 Nielsen Ratings Slideshow

I thought this would be fitting for us to play. It's an interesting quiz that I've never seen this gone before, and it was really interesting. I found the older shows especially difficult, and I only got a handful of them.
# of Questions: 66
My score: 35

#3 Odd Buddy Cop TV Shows

This is a quiz that I've loved since the start. It was really a unique idea and it was done quite well. I especially loved the nice mix of well-known shows (Sherlock; Murder, She Wrote) and less well-known shows (iZombie; Forever). As shown in the results, it's a pretty difficult quiz. Only 0.8% have gotten them all, and the average is 45%. I tend to prefer harder quizzes over very easy ones, and this is no exception.
# of Questions: 30
My score: 21

Contest
Once again, it is time for the contest. Here's what you need to do to enter:
1) Play all three quizzes.
2) Comment your score on each quiz in the comments.
On Wednesday, I will post the results of the Contest.
I hope that you have enjoyed this post (And the quizzes). I'll be back in one week with yet another installment.

If you missed it, here's the unpublished quizzes edition.
And here's the Inaugural Edition.
And the qlh27 Edition.

RESULTS
1) JB- 94 Points
2) The Middle of Nashville- 83
3) Andrew- 78 Points
4)Full Boyle- 55 Points
TOURNAMENT
This is the fourth week of the 1st TVRG-Sporcle Tournament. For each week, the winner of the week gets a varying amount of points, depending of how many people participated. If 5 people participate, the winner gets 4 point, if 6 participate, the winner gets 5 points, etc. For each place lower, the point increment drops by one point. At the end of 10 weeks, the person with the most points will win.

Tournament Standings:
1) The Middle of Nashville- 15 Points
2) JB- 12 Points
2) Andrew- 10 Points
4) Full Boyle- 3 Points
5) HV- 2 Points
6) theratingsjunkie- 0 Points

The Highs and Lows of Your Favorite TV Shows--Volume Two

Last summer, I did an article listing the series high and series low of all the returning TV series, and I'm doing it again now. Sadly, most of the edits are making the series lows even lower. Enjoy, and
discuss below!

ABC

CBS

CW

FOX
Note: The ratings below for The Simpsons only represent data from 1999 since most data I can find before that are just HH ratings.

NBC

Are Ad Rates Directly Correlated to Ratings?--NBC Edition 1

Recently the ad rates this series were released (click here). Let's look at NBC now, and see how far off or close some shows' ratings may be from their relative standing in ad prices. For new shows, this is largely due to an over/under estimation of its ratings--for veteran shows, it may depend on expected trends, the demographics it hits, etc.

In the 2014-2015 TV season, NBC's scripted show average for fall series was a 1.3 (1.299 to be more exact). This year's average ad rate for a fall NBC show was $113,667, rounded to the nearest dollar. There were a wide range of numbers, from just under $48,000 (Undateable) to over $190,000 (Blindspot).

Since the rates aren't that different this season from last season, let's say NBC is expecting another 1.3 average. Let's see what the predicted ratings for the shows would be if the ratings and ad rates were directly correlated. The numbers listed are for the A18-49 demo unless otherwise noted.

-Blindspot: 2.18
-Chicago Fire: 1.62
-The Mysteries of Laura: 0.78
-Law & Order: SVU: 0.98
-Chicago PD: 1.36
-Heroes: Reborn: 1.47
-The Blacklist: 2.07
-The Player: 1.19
-Undateable: 0.55
-Truth be Told: 0.95
-Grimm: 1.15

When looking at these numbers, one thing strikes out: Law & Order: SVU is fractional at a 0.98. What should be noted is the hypothesis that the show deals with a somewhat controversial and adult topic for broadcast television, and as such may be priced lower since it isn't as appealing to advertisers. That may not be the case, but is a pretty legitimate hypothesis I have heard.

The Chicago shows have numbers a little lower than I would have expected, and it looks like NBC may have expected The Blacklist to get a fall bump (but never did). Also, I have to wonder why Undateable is even still on the air, considering that it has an ad price less than some CW shows and if these numbers are telling at all, NBC didn't have too high standards for it. Maybe it is because they didn't want to have to launch two new comedies on a Friday? Regardless, I'm not sure what they were expecting out of Truth be Told, but even though a 0.95 is pretty bad, its ad rate built considerably from the one of its lead-in. And Undateable doesn't have the touchy/adult subject excuse that SVU may have.

Now for my favorite part: naming the winners and losers of the season thus far:

Winners

-Blindspot
-The Dick Wolf Shows
-The Mysteries of Laura
-Undateable

Losers

-Heroes: Reborn
-The Blacklist
-The Player
-Truth be Told

Honorable Mention

-Grimm

What do you think of these numbers? Are they an accurate telling of what NBC expects of these shows? Leave a comment and let us know!