‘NCIS’ Duo Leads CBS to Tuesday Overnight Leadership

TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2016

Household Rating/Share
CBS: 7.0 rating/11 share, NBC: 4.8/ 8, Fox: 3.8/ 6, ABC: 2.0/ 3, CW: 0.9/ 1

Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening:
Fox: +90, CBS: -14, CW: -18, NBC: -28, ABC: -31

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Ratings Breakdown:
CBS topped this first Tuesday in April in the household overnights, but it was not a clean sweep. “NCIS” dominated the evening, as always, with a 9.7 rating/16 share at 8 p.m., which led into a first-place 7.6/12 for spin-off “NCIS: New Orleans” at 9 p.m. But freshman drama “Limitless” dipped to second at 10 p.m. with a 3.9/ 6, which was 24 percent below competing “Chicago Fire” on NBC. A distant third in the 10 p.m. hour was ABC’s “Beyond the Tank” at a mere 1.4/ 2 in the overnights. Needless to say, the Tuesday 10 p.m. hour remains a particularly sore spot for ABC.

Earlier in the evening on NBC was an encore telecast of “The Voice” at a 4.4/ 7 at 8 p.m., which tied the competing 90-minute “American Idol” retrospective special on Fox. As we prepare to bid adieu to “American Idol” tomorrow night, does anyone really think this will be the last we will see of it? For more, click here

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The “American Idol” special led into a 1.9/ 3 for a Tuesday 9:30 p.m. edition of sitcom “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (#3t), which slipped by 57 percent. And NBC followed “The Voice” encore with original telecasts of “Chicago Med” (#2: 4.9/ 8) and “Chicago Fire” (#1: 5.1/ 9) from 9-11 p.m.

Elsewhere, ABC had nothing unusual to report with its combination of sitcoms “Fresh Off the Boat” (#4: 2.9/ 5) and recently introduced “The Real O’Neals” (#4: 2.5/ 4), “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” #4: 2.0/ 3) and aforementioned “Beyond the Tank” (#3: 1.4/ 2). And The CW populated the evening with encore telecasts of “The Flash” (#5: 0.9/ 2) and ‘iZombie” (#5: 0.8/ 1).

Source: Nielsen Media Research