Friday Overnight Ratings: ABC’s Loss is Fox’s Gain – ‘Last Man Standing’ Scores Well for its New Network

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Household Rating/Share
CBS: 5.0/ 9, Fox: 3.4/ 6, NBC: 2.7/ 5, ABC: 2.3/ 4, CW: 0.6/ 1

-Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening:
Fox: +200, ABC: – 4, CBS: – 6, CW: -14, NBC: -16

NBC: Dodgers-Giants in San Francisco

CW: Yankees-Red Sox in New York

What follows are the household overnight ratings for Friday, September 28 broken out by half-hour:

PRIME TIME

8:00 p.m.
ABC – “Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost” (special): 2.3/ 4 (#4)
CBS – “MacGyver” (season premiere): 3.9/ 7 (#2)
NBC – “Manifest” (repeat): 2.8/ 5 (#3)
Fox – “Last Man Standing” (season premiere): 4.9/ 9 (#1)
CW – “Masters of Illusion”: 0.6/ 1 (#5)

What did you think of the Fox network premiere episode of sitcom #LastManStanding?

— Marc Berman (@marcberman) September 29, 2018

8:30 p.m.
ABC – “Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost” (special): 2.0/ 4 (#4)
CBS – “MacGyver” (season premiere): 4.0/ 7 (#2)
NBC – “Manifest” (repeat): 2.6/ 5 (#3)
Fox – “The Cool Kids” (series premiere): 4.2/ 8 (#1)
CW – “Masters of Illusion” (repeat): 0.5/ 1 (#5)

What did you think of the series premiere episode of Fox sitcom #TheCoolKids?

— Marc Berman (@marcberman) September 29, 2018

9:00 p.m.
ABC – “Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost” (special): 2.2/ 4 (#3t)
CBS – “Hawaii Five-0” (season premiere): 4.8/ 9 (#1)
NBC – “New Amsterdam” (repeat): 2.4/ 4 (#2)
Fox – “Hell’s Kitchen” (season premiere): 2.2/ 4 (#3t)
CW – “Penn and Teller: Fool Us” (repeat): 0.6/ 1 (#5)

9:30 p.m.
ABC – “Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost” (special): 2.3/ 4 (#3)
CBS – “Hawaii Five-0” (season premiere): 4.8/ 9 (#1)
NBC – “New Amsterdam” (repeat): 2.4/ 4 (#2)
Fox – “Hell’s Kitchen” (season premiere): 2.1/ 4 (#4)
CW – “Penn and Teller: Fool Us” (repeat): 0.7/ 1 (#5)

10:00 p.m.
ABC – “20/20”: 2.6/ 5 (#3)
CBS – “Blue Bloods” (season premiere): 6.1/11 (#1)
NBC – “Dateline”: 3.0/ 5 (#2)

10:30 p.m.
ABC – “20/20”: 2.5/ 5 (#3)
CBS – “Blue Bloods” (season premiere): 6.1/12 (#1)
NBC – “Dateline”: 3.1/ 6 (#2)

LATE NIGHT

11:30 p.m.
ABC – “Jimmy Kimmel” (repeat): 1.7/ 4 (#3)
CBS – “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”: 3.3/ 8 (#1)
NBC – “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon”: 2.1/ 5 (#2)

12:00 a.m.
ABC – “Jimmy Kimmel” (repeat): 1.2/ 3 (#3)
CBS – “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”: 2.1/ 6 (#1)
NBC – “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon”: 1.4/ 4 (#2)

12:30 a.m.
ABC – “Nightline”: 1.2/ 4 (#2t)
CBS – “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (repeat): 1.2/ 4 (#2t)
NBC – “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (repeat): 1.5/ 5 (#1)

1:00 a.m.
CBS – “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (repeat): 1.0/ 4 (#1)
NBC – “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (repeat): 0.9/ 3 (#2)

1:30 a.m.
NBC – “Last Call with Carson Daly” (repeat): 0.6/ 3

Source: Nielsen Media Research