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TV Ratings 2/19/17: Good Fight Premieres Low, Son of Zorn Ends Quietly, NBC Special Draws Little Interest (UPDATED)

Sunday was a pretty busy night, with CBS premiering a new show, NBC airing a special, and a Fox comedy coming to an end. On CBS, 60 Minutes was down from last week. It lead into the special series premiere of the new CBS All Access series The Good Fight, which pulled in low ratings and was down a lot from the series finale of the Good Wife. NCIS: LA was booted to 9 PM by the premiere of TGF, and it was down a good deal. Elementary was steady at its already pretty low numbers. On ABC, a special presentation of Tangled aired at 8 PM, up from last week's presentation of the Blind Side. It led into the finale of To Tell the Truth, which was down and hit a season low. NBC aired a 90th Anniversary special, which drew low ratings, even with last week's showing of Fast and Furious 6. On Fox, their comedies rebounded from last week's lows against the Grammys. Son of Zorn ended its first (only?) season with a 0.7, up slightly from last week. Family Guy also climbed out of fractional ratings.


Finals Update: All shows held their preliminary ratings.

Time	Show	18-49 Rating/Share	Viewers (mil)	Channel
7 PM	60 Minutes	1.0/4	10.24	CBS
	America’s Funniest Home Videos	0.9/4	5.35	ABC
	Dateline NBC (R)	0.6/2	3.59	NBC
	Son of Zorn (R)	0.3/1	0.98	Fox
7:30 PM	The Simpsons (R)	0.5/2	1.28	Fox
8 PM	The Simpsons	1.1/4	2.46	Fox
	Tangled	1.0/4	3.75	ABC
	The Paley Center Salutes NBC’s 90th Anniversary (S)	0.7/2	4.39	NBC
	The Good Fight	0.7/3	7.16	CBS
8:30 PM	Son of Zorn (F)	0.7/2	1.57	Fox
9 PM	NCIS: Los Angeles	1.1/4	8.47	CBS
	Family Guy	1.0/4	2.24	Fox
9:30 PM	Bob’s Burgers	0.9/3	1.93	Fox
10 PM	To Tell the Truth (F)	0.7/3	2.81	ABC
	Elementary	0.7/3	5.04	CBS

'The Good Fight' to Premiere February 19th on CBS

We'll soon be seeing Diane Lockhart back on the TV. CBS has announced that the Good Wife spinoff 'The Good Fight' will premiere on February 19th at 8 PM on CBS, before moving to CBS All Access. Plans to premiere the show on CBS were announced earlier, but the premiere date was just now announced.

CBS All-Access Orders Good Wife Spinoff

In some more shocking CBS news, it has just been announced that a Good Wife spin-off is headed to CBS All-Access starring Christine Baranski. Although the original series just ended, CBS is looking to keep its legacy alive on its paid service platform. Considering The Good Wife is known to have a more upper-income audience, this could really play out well for them.

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