FOX feasted on football ratings last Sunday and premiered Next Level Chef following the game. Unfortunately, not many of those Sunday viewers carried over to the show's regular night where the show was about even with its numbers last season. Farmer Wants A Wife opened its second season about where it ended last season. The Floor picked up a few tens of thousands of viewers and will likely be renewed. We Are Family lost one hundred thousand viewers. TMZ Investigates lost one hundred thousand viewers off its premiere.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| NFL: NFC Championship Game | 15.18 | 56.32 | |
| Next Level Chef (premiere) | 2.15 | 7.24 | |
| WWE Smackdown | 0.66 | 2.31 | |
| The Floor | 0.49 | 2.57 | |
| Next Level Chef | 0.38 | 2.03 | |
| Celebrity Name That Tune | 0.32 | 1.87 | |
| America's Most Wanted | 0.29 | 1.95 | |
| Farmer Wants A Wife (premiere) | 0.26 | 1.99 | |
| I Can See Your Voice | 0.25 | 1.65 | |
| We Are Family | 0.25 | 1.64 | |
| TMZ Investigates | 0.20 | 1.38 |
ABC wrapped the fifth season of Press Your Luck last week. The show's ratings improved over the course of the fall and winter and will likely be renewed. The question will be if the gameshow remains part of the fall/winter season or shifts back to summer programming next season. ABC previewed the fourth season premiere of Genius: MLK/X to middling numbers. The Bachelor lost a few tens of thousands of viewers off its premiere.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| The Bachelor | 0.55 | 3.16 | |
| Press Your Luck (finale) | 0.41 | 3.19 | |
| Shark Tank | 0.32 | 3.22 | |
| Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (rerun) | 0.32 | 3.08 | |
| 20/20 | 0.30 | 2.74 | |
| Wednesday Night NBA Basketball | 0.28 | 1.41 | |
| NBA Countdown Wednesday | 0.23 | 1.61 | |
| Bad Romance: A Special Edition of 20/20 | 0.19 | 1.60 | |
| America's Funniest Home Videos (rerun) | 0.18 | 2.32 | |
| Sunday Movie: The Parent Trap | 0.18 | 1.49 | |
| Will Trent (rerun) | 0.17 | 1.79 | |
| Genius: MLK/X | 0.17 | 1.26 | Import |
| Abbott Elementary (rerun) | 0.13 | 1.14 | |
| The Rookie (rerun) | 0.12 | 1.44 | |
| Soul of a Nation (rerun) | 0.12 | 1.02 |
CBS filled its schedule with lots of Yellowstone last week, with the Paramount+ series filling the Sunday and Monday schedules. The Price Is Right At Night lost viewers with its two airings last week. The Wednesday night edition was down two hundred thousand viewers, while the Friday instalment lost almost a million viewers from the previous week. Let's Make A Deal Primetime was down four hundred thousand viewers.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| 60 Minutes | 0.74 | 6.55 | |
| The Price Is Right At Night (Wednesday) | 0.50 | 4.33 | |
| Let's Make A Deal Primetime | 0.37 | 2.90 | |
| Yellowstone | 0.36 | 3.23 | Import |
| FBI (rerun) | 0.35 | 4.08 | |
| Young Sheldon (rerun) | 0.33 | 3.61 | Cancelled |
| The Price Is Right At Night (Friday) | 0.30 | 3.64 | |
| Yellowstone | 0.29 | 3.23 | Import |
| The Neighborhood (rerun) | 0.29 | 2.95 | |
| Yellowstone | 0.29 | 2.79 | Import |
| FBI: Most Wanted (rerun) | 0.29 | 2.79 | |
| FBI: International (rerun) | 0.27 | 3.36 | |
| Bob (Hearts) Abishola (rerun) | 0.24 | 2.56 | Cancelled |
| Ghosts (rerun) | 0.23 | 2.81 | |
| Yellowstone | 0.19 | 2.32 | Import |
| Yellowstone | 0.16 | 2.34 | Import |
| Fire Country (rerun) | 0.16 | 2.10 | |
| So Help Me Todd (rerun) | 0.16 | 1.84 | |
| So Help Me Todd (rerun) | 0.15 | 2.14 | |
| FBI True | 0.15 | 1.45 | Import |
| Blue Bloods (rerun) | 0.14 | 2.50 | Cancelled |
NBC had another good week from the One Chicago and Law & Order franchises. Fans of Quantum Leap should probably start worrying. The rebooted time travel series was the only fall drama not to receive a renewal slip before the December hiatus. (Magnum PI had been cancelled before the season started). The Raymond Lee-fronted series pulled half the viewer numbers as freshman series, The Irrational, last week making it the lowest-rated drama for the network by a significant amount. Night Court bounced back, picking up a hundred thousand viewers. Extended Family was even.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Law & Order: SVU | 0.54 | 5.23 | |
| Chicago Fire | 0.49 | 6.73 | |
| Chicago Med | 0.47 | 6.62 | |
| Chicago PD | 0.46 | 5.53 | |
| Law & Order | 0.42 | 4.85 | |
| America's Got Talent: Fantasy League | 0.41 | 4.12 | |
| Law & Order: Organised Crime | 0.36 | 3.67 | |
| Night Court | 0.28 | 3.02 | |
| The Irrational | 0.27 | 3.13 | Renewed |
| Extended Family | 0.23 | 2.45 | |
| Dateline NBC: Friday | 0.20 | 2.42 | |
| La Brea | 0.18 | 2.15 | Cancelled |
| Quantum Leap | 0.18 | 1.69 | |
| Dateline NBC (Sunday) (rerun) | 0.16 | 1.93 | |
| Transplant | 0.13 | 1.91 | Import |
| America's Got Talent: Fantasy League (rerun) | 0.09 | 1.14 |
The CW carried on with its slate of imports. Penn & Teller: Fool Us lost a few tens of thousands of viewers, but still took the top spot on the chart for the network. The new episode of Whose Line picked up one hundred thousand viewers.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Penn & Teller: Fool Us | 0.10 | 0.66 | |
| Wild Cards | 0.09 | 0.44 | Import |
| The Conners | 0.09 | 0.43 | Import |
| Whose Line Is It, Anyway | 0.08 | 0.52 | |
| Whose Line Is It, Anyway (rerun) | 0.08 | 0.46 | |
| The Conners | 0.08 | 0.42 | Import |
| Ride | 0.06 | 0.40 | Import |
| Sunday Movie: Jumanji | 0.06 | 0.39 | |
| Inside the NFL | 0.06 | 0.37 | |
| Wild Cards | 0.05 | 0.48 | Import |
| Family Law | 0.05 | 0.38 | Import |
| Wild Cards | 0.05 | 0.37 | Import |
| Son of a Critch | 0.04 | 0.27 | Import |
| Children Ruin Everything | 0.03 | 0.19 | Import |
In past seasons, trends would have pointed out the shows secure in a renewal or certain for cancellation by now. With the schedule scrambling as a result of the WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes, some shows won't even premiere for another couple of weeks. Upfronts (assuming they happen) could be interesting come May.
Written by LadyShelley on Feb 5, 2024
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