Respectable Sampling for NBC’s ‘Great News’ and ’48 Hours: NCIS’ on CBS

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2017

Household Rating/Share
NBC: 4.7/ 8, CBS: 4.3/ 7, ABC: 1.9/ 3, Fox: 1.7/ 3, CW: 1.3/ 2

-Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening:
Fox: +13, ABC: -10, CBS: -14, NBC: -22, CW: -24

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Ratings Breakdown:
With “NCIS” and “Bull” on CBS in repeats, NBC led the Tuesday overnights, besting the No. 2 Eye net by nine percent in households. There were two network series premieres: NBC sitcom “Great News” and CBS spin-off “48 Hours: NCIS.”

With “Fresh Off the Boat” on ABC also an encore, “Great News” was sampled at a second-place 3.4 rating/6 share in the 9 p.m. half hour. Excluding the expanded episode of “The Voice” last week, this was NBC’s best overnight household rating in the time period since the “This Is Us” season-finale on March 14. There is every reason to believe “Great News” will also dominate the half-hour in adults 18-49 (and all the key young adult demographics). But that 3.4 overnight rating held only 54 percent of “The Voice” lead-in (#1: 6.3/10 from 8-9 p.m.). And two of the competing networks were in repeats, so let’s see what happens in future weeks.

A second episode of “Great News” slipped to a 2.8/ 5 (#2) at 9:30 p.m., which outdelivered competing “Imaginary Mary” on ABC (#3t: 1.9/ 3) by 47 percent.

On CBS, “48: Hours: NCIS,” yet another attempt to capitalize on the successful “NCIS” theme, opened with a respectable second-place 3.8/ 7 in the 10 p.m. hour. Comparably, that trailed competing “Chicago Fire” on NBC (#1: 4.7/ 8) by 19 percent. One week earlier, “NCIS: New Orleans” scored a 6.4/12 in the hour, but failed drama “Limitless” was only at a 3.5/ 6 one year earlier.

In the distant third place position on ABC was drama “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” at a mere 1.6/ 3.

Earlier in the evening on ABC were encore telecasts of “The Middle” (#3: 2.7/ 5), “American Housewife” (#3: 2.0/ 3) and aforementioned “Fresh Off the Boat” (#4: 1.8/ 3) from 8-9:30 p.m. The repeat installments of CBS’ “NCIS” (2: 4.7/ 8) and “Bull” (#1: 4.5/ 7), meanwhile, were at typical non-original levels from 8-10 p.m.

Elsewhere, Fox could not compete with its line-up of sitcoms “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (#5: 1.4/ 2) and “The Mick” (#4: 1.6/ 3) and the recent revival of “Prison Break” (#3t: 1.9/ 3), which got a slight boost from the 1.7/ 3 one week earlier. And The CW featured “The Flash” (#4: 1.9/ 3), which dropped by 21 percent from the 2.4/ 4 in the household overnights one year earler, and “iZombie” (#5: 0.8/ 1).

What follows are the household overnight results for Tuesday, April 25 by half-hour:

8:00 p.m.
ABC – “The Middle” (R): 2.7/ 5 (#3)
CBS – “NCIS” (R): 4.7/ 8 (#2)
NBC – “The Voice”: 6.2/11 (#1)
Fox – “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”: 1.4/ 2 (#4)
CW – “The Flash”: 1.9/ 3 (#4)

8:30 p.m.
ABC – “American Housewife” (R): 2.0/ 3 (#3)
CBS – “NCIS” (R): 4.8/ 8 (#1)
NBC – “The Voice”: 6.3/10 (#1)
Fox – “The Mick”: 1.6/ 3 (#5)
CW – “The Flash”: 1.9/ 3 (#4)

9:00 p.m.
ABC – “Fresh Off the Boat” (R): 1.8/ 3 (#4)
CBS – “Bull” (R): 4.6/ 8 (#1)
NBC – “Great News” (series premiere): 3.4/ 6 (#2)
Fox – “Prison Break”: 1.9/ 3 (#3)
CW – “iZombie”: 0.8/ 1 (#5)

9:30 p.m.
ABC – “Imaginary Mary”: 1.9/ 3 (#3t)
CBS – “Bull” (R): 4.4/ 7 (#1)
NBC – “Great News”: 2.8/ 5 (#2)
Fox – “Prison Break”: 1.9/ 3 (#3t)
CW – “iZombie”: 0.7/ 1 (#5)

10:00 p.m.
ABC – “Agents of SHIELD”: 1.7/ 3 (#3)
CBS – “48 Hours: NCIS” (series premiere): 3.9/ 7 (#2)
NBC – “Chicago Fire”: 4.7/ 8 (#1)

10:30 p.m.
ABC – “Agents of SHIELD”: 1.5/ 3 (#3)
CBS – “48 Hours: NCIS” (series premiere): 3.6/ 7 (#2)
NBC – “Chicago Fire”: 4.7/ 9 (#1)

Source: Nielsen Media Research