With upfronts week over, CBS is ending the 2022-2023 tv season on prime, ending because the most-watched broadcast community for the fifteenth consecutive 12 months.
The broadcaster introduced on Thursday that it averaged 5.96 million viewers in primetime per weeknight, almost 700,000 viewers forward of second-place NBC.
Among the many highlights, NCIS was the No. 1 broadcast drama for the fifth consecutive season, and FBI and Blue Bloods are additionally among the many prime broadcast dramas. Younger Sheldon and Ghosts are among the many prime comedies.
The corporate will look to proceed its success within the 2023-2024 TV season with three new dramas, one new comedy, particular occasion programming and 22 returning sequence, although it stays to be seen how the continued Writers Guild of America strike will have an effect on the main broadcasters within the fall.
Fox got here in third in whole viewers, however the firm is about to win the coveted 18-49 demo, with drama Accused and unscripted sequence Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at performing effectively for the broadcaster.
Within the demo, Fox was No. 1 with a 1.1 score, flat from final season, however pulling forward of second place NBC (0.9) and third place CBS (0.7).
Fox’s Accused is the No. 1 new drama within the demo, averaging 4.1 million viewers (6.5 million together with multiplatform). The post-Tremendous Bowl Season 2 premiere of Subsequent Degree Chef pulled in 18.5 million multiplatform viewers, averaging 6.1 million multiplatform viewers total.
CBS’ whole viewership is down almost 5% from final 12 months’s viewers of 6.19 million. NBC was second with 5.27 million, a 14% decline from final 12 months’s 6.11 million. Fox got here in third with 4.45 million (a 2% decline from final season’s 4.56 million), and ABC was fourth with 4.14 million (down barely from final 12 months’s 4.16 million).
All numbers mirror Nielsen’s “most present” scores, in line with CBS. These numbers account for live-plus-7 for your entire season aside from the final two weeks, that are live-plus-same-day.
In all, CBS has 5 sequence averaging greater than 11 million viewers in multiplatform, and 7 averaging greater than 10 million.
