ABC premiered its Tuesday night lineup last week. The Connors took the number one slot for the network. While not the, frankly freakish, opening Roseanne had last year, still more than respectable. The Kids Are Alright opened well as did The Rookie for Nathan Fillion. Perennial family favorite It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown did well as always, Toy Story of Terror, less so. Fresh Off The Boat and Speechless continue to sag on Friday night, and are both probably done. The Alec Baldwin Show opened embarrassingly low and isn't going to last long. The only question is will it get to finish out the eight episodes already ordered or will it get yanked.
Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
The Connors (premiere) | 2.4 | 10.6 | |
College Football | 1.6 | 6.1 | |
The Kids Are Alright (premiere) | 1.4 | 6.5 | |
Modern Family | 1.3 | 5.0 | |
The Good Doctor | 1.1 | 6.7 | |
The Goldbergs | 1.1 | 4.9 | |
It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown | 1.1 | 4.5 | |
The Rookie (premiere) | 1.0 | 5.4 | |
American Housewife | 1.0 | 4.2 | |
Black-ish (premiere) | 1.0 | 4.1 | |
Dancing with the Stars (Monday) | 0.9 | 6.9 | |
America's Funniest Home Videos | 0.9 | 5.6 | |
Single Parents | 0.9 | 3.5 | Full Season Order |
Splitting Up Together (premiere) | 0.9 | 3.3 | |
Dancing with the Stars: Juniors | 0.8 | 4.7 | |
Station 19 | 0.8 | 4.2 | |
A Million Little Things | 0.8 | 3.3 | |
Toy Story of Terror | 0.8 | 3.2 | |
Shark Tank | 0.7 | 3.6 | |
How To Get Away With Murder | 0.7 | 2.7 | |
Fresh Off The Boat | 0.6 | 3.0 | |
20/20 Friday | 0.5 | 2.8 | |
Speechless | 0.5 | 2.4 | |
Child Support | 0.4 | 1.9 | |
The Alec Baldwin Show (premiere) | 0.3 | 2.1 |
CBS handed out more full season orders last week. The Neighborhood, God Friended Me, and Magnum PI all scored a full season one from the network. Of the three, the interesting one to follow will be God Friended Me. It's getting a huge ratings boost at the moment when there is an NFL overrun into primetime. However, when there isn't a football game, the show hovers around the network average. Fans will really have to wait until football season is over to know if their show has enough legs to get a second season.
Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
NFL Overrun | 3.5 | 12.6 | |
The Big Bang Theory | 2.1 | 12.2 | Final Season |
60 Minutes | 1.9 | 11.7 | |
Young Sheldon | 1.7 | 11.0 | |
Survivor | 1.4 | 7.2 | |
Mom | 1.3 | 8.1 | |
NCIS | 1.2 | 11.9 | |
The Neighborhood | 1.1 | 6.3 | Full Season Order |
FBI | 1.0 | 9.3 | Full Season Order |
God Friended Me | 1.0 | 7.9 | Full Season Order |
NCIS: Los Angeles | 1.0 | 7.6 | |
Murphy Brown | 0.9 | 6.4 | |
Magnum PI | 0.9 | 5.5 | Full Season Order |
Happy Together | 0.9 | 4.7 | |
Blue Bloods | 0.8 | 8.3 | |
Hawaii Five-0 | 0.8 | 7.3 | |
NCIS: New Orleans | 0.8 | 7.2 | |
Bull | 0.8 | 6.5 | |
SEAL Team | 0.8 | 5.4 | |
MacGyver | 0.7 | 6.1 | |
SWAT | 0.7 | 5.5 | |
Criminal Minds | 0.7 | 4.4 | |
Madam Secretary | 0.6 | 5.5 | |
48 Hours | 0.5 | 3.8 | |
Michael Jackson's Halloween | 0.5 | 2.0 | |
48 Hours (rerun) | 0.4 | 2.0 |
NBC had a pretty steady grid ratings-wise from the previous week. This Is Us continues to lead the networks scripted programming. New Amsterdam slipped slightly while Manifest lost a tenth but held its overall audience numbers. I Feel Bad won't make it past its original episode order, so fans should enjoy what's left. Blindspot fans can also start worrying. The network has its episode count for any syndication deals, so chances are it will be done at the end of the season.
Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
NFL Football | 7.0 | 21.1 | |
SNF Pregame | 4.4 | 13.7 | |
Football Night In America | 2.6 | 8.3 | |
This Is Us | 2.2 | 8.9 | |
The Voice (Monday) | 1.9 | 10.0 | |
The Voice (Tuesday) | 1.8 | 9.0 | |
Manifest | 1.5 | 7.5 | |
Chicago Fire | 1.3 | 7.9 | |
Chicago Med | 1.2 | 7.7 | |
New Amsterdam | 1.2 | 6.3 | Full Season Order |
Chicago PD | 1.1 | 6.9 | |
Law & Order SVU | 1.0 | 3.9 | |
Will & Grace | 0.9 | 3.4 | Renewed |
Superstore | 0.9 | 3.2 | |
The Good Place | 0.8 | 2.7 | |
Dateline Friday | 0.6 | 3.8 | |
I Feel Bad | 0.6 | 2.2 | |
Dateline Saturday (rerun) | 0.5 | 3.4 | |
Saturday Night Live (rerun) | 0.5 | 2.7 | |
Blindspot | 0.4 | 2.5 |
FOX gave full season episode orders to Last Man Standing and The Cool Kids last week. No surprise for either show. The Resident was steady as was Lethal Weapon. The Gifted lost a tenth and Rel lost two tenths, not good news for either show and fans should start to worry. Right now it doesn't look good for either.
Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
NFL Thursday Night Football | 2.8 | 9.1 | |
Empire | 1.6 | 5.2 | |
9-1-1 | 1.4 | 5.9 | |
Last Man Standing | 1.2 | 6.2 | Full Season Order |
Star | 1.2 | 3.7 | |
The Resident | 1.0 | 4.7 | |
The Simpsons | 1.0 | 2.5 | |
The Cool Kids | 0.9 | 4.6 | Full Season Order |
Bob's Burgers | 0.9 | 2.1 | |
Family Guy | 0.9 | 2.0 | |
Lethal Weapon | 0.7 | 2.9 | |
Hell's Kitchen | 0.7 | 2.6 | |
The Cool Kids (rerun) | 0.7 | 2.1 | |
The Gifted | 0.6 | 1.9 | |
College Football | 0.5 | 1.8 | |
The Simpsons (rerun) | 0.5 | 1.4 | |
Rel | 0.5 | 1.4 |
The CW premiered its new Sunday night schedule last week. Freshman series, Charmed and returning series, Supergirl did well. The Flash took the number one slot even if it did loss a tenth from its premiere. Riverdale also lost a tenth while Supernatural and Black Lightning were steady.
Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
The Flash | 0.7 | 1.7 | |
Charmed (premiere) | 0.5 | 1.6 | |
Supergirl (premiere) | 0.5 | 1.5 | |
Supernatural | 0.5 | 1.5 | |
Arrow (premiere) | 0.4 | 1.4 | |
Riverdale | 0.4 | 1.3 | |
Black Lightning | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
Charmed (rerun) | 0.3 | 0.9 | |
All American | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
Dynasty | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
Constantine: The Legend Continues | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | 0.1 | 0.4 | Final Season |
The networks have had pretty good luck so far this season with their rookie shows, only three are in danger of immediate cancellation. Several new programs have already received the good news of full season or "back nine" episode orders, are your new favorites among them? Let us know what you're watching this season in the comments.
Written by LadyShelley on Oct 22, 2018
That's nice about God Friended Me getting a full season order. :) I think I already mentioned my thoughts about Supergirl last week. I'm glad that Riverdale, Arrow, The Flash, and Black Lightning are back, and that Legends of Tomorrow will be back this week. I'm looking forward to Midnight, Texas returning to the schedule as well. I'm finding Big Bang Theory is somewhat disappointing this season.