Thursday Overnights: Easy Victory for Football-Populated Fox

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Household Rating/Share
Fox: 8.8/15, CBS: 5.4/ 4, ABC: 4.0/ 7, NBC: 2.3/ 4, CW: 0.9/ 1

-Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening:
Fox: +300, ABC: – 2, CBS: – 5, CW: -10, NBC: -67

-Ratings Scorecard:
As expected, Thursday Night Football (Seattle Seahawks 27, Green Bay Packers 24) led Fox overnight victory. The 8:30-10 p.m. portion of the game, which ended at 11:20 p.m. ET (and does not include the portion on the NFLN), scored a 9.7 rating/16 share in the household overnights. Full game results will be posted later today at programminginsider.com.

Tops for the night in scripted, as always, was CBS veteran “The Big Bang Theory” at an 8.5/14
in the 8 p.m. half-hour. And that gave lead-out prequel “Young Sheldon” a boost at a 7.0/11 (#2) at 8:30 p.m. But will viewers still flock to “Young Sheldon” next season after the parent series is over? Stay tuned.

Next on the Eye net was “Mom:” at a healthy (and consistent) 5.4/ 9 (#2) in the 9 p.m. half-hour. Yes, Christy (Ana Faris) finally did remember she has a daughter, who seemed to mysteriously disappear with her brother! But the revival of “Murphy Brown” (#2: 4.4/ 7 at 9:30 p.m.) is not the hit the network was hoping for. Comparably, this is a slight improvement from year-ago time period occupant “Life in Pieces” (which will be returning in midseason).

CBS’ sophomore crime solver “S.W.A.T.” scored a typical 3.7/ 7 in the household overnights at 10 p.m., which bested competing “Law & Order: SVU” on NBC (#3: 3.1/ 6) and sinking “How To Get Away With Murder” on ABC (#4: 2.6/ 5) by 19 percent and 42 percent, respectively. Worth positively noting for “Law & Order: SVU” was overnight growth of a considerable 138 percent from waiting-to-be canceled sitcom lead-in “I Feel Bad” (#4: 1.3/ 2). Gobble! Gobble! See you next week on my annual listing of TV Turkeys, “I Feel Bad.”

Earlier in the evening on NBC was the low-rated combination of sitcoms “Superstore” (#4: 2.2/ 4 at 8 p.m.), “The Good Place” (#4: 1.9/ 3 at 8:30 p.m.) and “Will & Grace” (#4: 2.2/ 4 at 9 p.m.).

ABC, meanwhile, had nothing unusual to report with “Grey’s Anatomy” (#3: 5.2/ 9) and spin-off “Station 19” (#3: 4.1/ 7) from 8-10 p.m. And The CW featured veteran “Supernatural” (#5: 1.0/ 2 at 8 p.m.) into recent entry “Legacies” (#5: 0.8/ 1 at 9 p.m.), which had its initial 13-episode order extended by three episodes.

What follows are the household overnight ratings for Thursday, November 15 broken out by half-hour.

8:00 p.m.
ABC – “Grey’s Anatomy”: 5.3/ 9 (#3)
CBS – “The Big Bang Theory”: 8.5/14 (#1)
NBC – “Superstore”: 2.2/ 4 (#4)
Fox – Thursday Night Football Pregame: 6.1/11 (#2)
CW – “Supernatural”: 1.0/ 2 (#5)

8:30 p.m.
ABC – “Grey’s Anatomy”: 5.1/ 8 (#3)
CBS – “Young Sheldon”: 7.0/11 (#1)
NBC – “The Good Place”: 1.9/ 3 (#4)
Fox – Thursday Night Football (Green Bay Packers at Seattle Seahawks): 8.8/15 (#1)
CW – “Supernatural”: 0.9/ 2 (#5)

9:00 p.m.
ABC – “Station 19”: 4.1/ 7 (#3)
CBS – “Mom”: 5.4/ 9 (#2)
NBC – “Will & Grace”: 2.2/ 4 (#4)
Fox – Thursday Night Football (Green Bay Packers at Seattle Seahawks): 10.0/16 (#1)
CW – “Legacies”: 0.8/ 1 (#5)

9:30 p.m.
ABC – “Station 19”: 4.1/ 7 (#3)
CBS – “Murphy Brown”: 4.4/ 7 (#2)
NBC – “I Feel Bad”: 1.3/ 2 (#4)
Fox – Thursday Night Football (Green Bay Packers at Seattle Seahawks): 10.4/17 (#1)
CW – “Legacies”: 0.7/ 1 (#5)

10:00 p.m.
ABC – “How To Get Away With Murder”: 2.6/ 5 (#4)
CBS – “S.W.A.T.”: 3.7/ 6 (#2)
NBC – “Law & Order: SVU”: 3.0/ 5 (#3)
Fox – Thursday Night Football (Green Bay Packers at Seattle Seahawks): NA

10:30 p.m.
ABC – “How To Get Away With Murder”: 2.5/ 5 (#4)
CBS – “S.W.A.T.”: 3.6/ 7 (#2)
NBC – “Law & Order: SVU”: 3.1/ 6 (#3)
Fox – Thursday Night Football (Green Bay Packers at Seattle Seahawks): NA

LATE NIGHT

11:30 p.m.
ABC: 2.4/ 6 (#2) — “Jimmy Kimmel”
CBS: 3.1/ 8 (#1) — “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
NBC: 2.0/ 5 (#3) — “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon”

12:00 a.m.
ABC: 2.0/ 6 (#1) — “Jimmy Kimmel”
CBS: 2.0/ 6 (#1) — “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
NBC: 1.3/ 5 (#3) — “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon”

12:30 a.m.
ABC: 1.6/ 5 (#1) — “Nightline”
CBS: 1.3/ 4 (#3) — “The Late Late Show with James Corden”
NBC: 1.3/ 5 (#2) — “Late Night with Seth Meyers”

1:00 a.m.
CBS: 0.9/ 4 (#2) — “The Late Late Show with James Corden”
NBC: 1.0/ 4 (#1) — “Late Night with Seth Meyers”

1:30 a.m.
NBC: 0.7/ 3 — “Last Call with Carson Daly”

Source: Nielsen Media Research