FOX had its turn to host the Super Bowl last week, garnering some of the highest ratings in the history of the televised game. The second season of Next Level Chef premiered after the game to huge numbers. Unfortunately, little of that audience bothered to follow the cooking series to its regular night. The Masked Singer opened its spring season even where it ended in the fall. Freshman comedy, Animal Control, opened its season with almost double the audience as Welcome to Flatch in the same slot. The better lead-in also helped Call Me Kat pick up six hundred thousand viewers. Accused returned after a week off, down three hundred thousand viewers. Alert: Missing Persons Unit gained one hundred thousand viewers.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Super Bowl LVII | 33.78 | 112.2 | |
| Super Bowl LVII Post Game | 20.69 | 66.4 | |
| Next Level Chef (premiere) | 5.0 | 15.7 | |
| The Masked Singer (premiere) | 0.63 | 3.7 | |
| 9-1-1: Lone Star | 0.53 | 3.6 | |
| WWE Smackdown | 0.48 | 2.2 | |
| Call Me Kat | 0.37 | 1.6 | |
| Special Forces: World's Toughest Test | 0.35 | 1.9 | |
| Next Level Chef | 0.35 | 1.9 | |
| Accused | 0.32 | 2.2 | |
| College Basketball | 0.32 | 1.4 | |
| Animal Control (premiere) | 0.31 | 2.1 | |
| Alert: Missing Persons Unit | 0.27 | 1.9 | |
| Fantasy Island | 0.24 | 2.0 |
ABC wrapped The Parent Test to middling numbers. The show might be renewed if, for no other reason, it's cheap to produce. The Rookie and The Rookie: Feds returned after a week off. Both shows were down more than half a million viewers. Chances are still good, however, that both shows will be renewed. Not Dead Yet dropped six hundred thousand viewers from its regular night premiere. The show can't lose much more if it wants to be renewed. Will Trent was down three hundred thousand viewers. A Million Little Things lost two hundred thousand viewers off its final season premiere.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| The Bachelor | 0.59 | 2.9 | |
| The Rookie | 0.48 | 4.1 | |
| Shark Tank | 0.47 | 3.7 | |
| The Conners | 0.47 | 3.6 | |
| Abbott Elementary | 0.47 | 2.8 | Renewed |
| The Goldbergs | 0.33 | 2.3 | |
| 20/20 (Friday) | 0.32 | 2.7 | |
| The Rookie: Feds | 0.32 | 2.6 | |
| The Parent Test | 0.32 | 1.9 | |
| Not Dead Yet | 0.31 | 2.3 | |
| Will Trent | 0.30 | 2.9 | |
| The Good Doctor | 0.29 | 3.1 | |
| The Parent Test (finale) | 0.27 | 1.5 | |
| A Million Little Things | 0.24 | 2.0 | Final Season |
| The Chase | 0.24 | 1.8 | |
| NHL Saturday Night Hockey | 0.21 | 1.0 | |
| Celebrity Jeopardy! (rerun) | 0.19 | 1.3 | |
| America's Funniest Home Videos (rerun) | 0.15 | 1.3 | |
| America's Funniest Home Videos (rerun) | 0.14 | 1.2 | |
| Shark Tank (rerun) | 0.09 | 0.6 |
CBS had a quiet week. In a nice change, both the NCIS and FBI franchises ran new episodes last week, it was a good chance to compare the two. Parent FBI and parent NCIS still pull in about the same number of viewers, and even the spinoffs aren't that far off from each other. Proof a network can run more than one franchise and be successful. The FBI shows have already been renewed. There's no reason to think either of the two remaining NCIS shows won't be as well. SWAT was preempted for an episode of Greatest #AtHome Videos, to the detriment of the Friday lineup. The video variety show lost about half of SWAT's audience in the same slot. The Price Is Right At Night returned after a week off, down almost a million viewers. Lingo was down three hundred thousand viewers.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Young Sheldon | 0.61 | 7.3 | Renewed |
| Ghosts | 0.58 | 6.5 | Renewed |
| FBI | 0.52 | 7.2 | Renewed |
| The Neighborhood | 0.52 | 6.2 | Renewed |
| The Price Is Right At Night | 0.46 | 4.4 | |
| Bob (Hearts) Abishola | 0.42 | 5.6 | Renewed |
| FBI: International | 0.41 | 5.5 | Renewed |
| NCIS | 0.39 | 7.0 | |
| FBI: Most Wanted | 0.38 | 4.8 | Renewed |
| NCIS: Hawai'i | 0.30 | 5.0 | |
| Lingo | 0.30 | 2.3 | |
| Blue Bloods (rerun) | 0.28 | 3.4 | |
| The Greatest #AtHome Videos: The Cedys | 0.24 | 3.2 | |
| Fire Country (rerun) | 0.24 | 3.1 | Renewed |
| Tough As Nails | 0.23 | 1.8 | |
| CSI: Vegas | 0.21 | 2.9 | |
| So Help Me Todd (rerun) | 0.20 | 3.1 | Renewed |
| The Equaliser (rerun) | 0.18 | 2.2 | |
| 60 Minutes (rerun) | 0.11 | 2.0 | |
| The Equaliser (rerun) | 0.11 | 1.5 | Renewed |
| Saturday Night Movie: Star Trek Beyond | 0.11 | 1.4 | |
| The Equaliser (rerun) | 0.10 | 1.5 |
NBC also ran new episodes of its Chicago shows and various Law & Orders last week. Looking at how these two franchises stack up, the only show in any possible danger would be Law & Order: Organised Crime. The threat of cancellation is slim, however. The network ran a couple of repeats of Magnum PI in preparation for the show's move from CBS to its new network this week. Night Court still hasn't settled, losing another four hundred thousand viewers. It's still a couple million viewers up on any other half-hour comedy on the network, but execs would like it to find bottom soon. Lopez vs Lopez was up two hundred thousand viewers. American Auto lost two hundred thousand viewers it couldn't afford. Young Rock was steady at its usual low.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Law & Order: SVU | 0.65 | 5.1 | |
| Chicago Fire | 0.64 | 6.7 | Renewed |
| Chicago Med | 0.62 | 6.7 | Renewed |
| Chicago PD | 0.53 | 5.2 | Renewed |
| Law & Order | 0.53 | 4.7 | |
| Night Court | 0.49 | 3.8 | Renewed |
| America's Got Talent: All Stars | 0.48 | 4.0 | |
| Law & Order: Organised Crime | 0.46 | 3.4 | |
| Magnum PI (rerun) | 0.29 | 1.8 | |
| Dateline (Friday) | 0.26 | 2.3 | |
| La Brea | 0.25 | 2.1 | Renewed |
| Lopez vs Lopez | 0.25 | 2.1 | |
| American Auto | 0.25 | 1.9 | |
| Vintage SNL | 0.18 | 1.8 | |
| America's Got Talent: All Stars (rerun) | 0.18 | 1.7 | |
| Young Rock | 0.18 | 1.3 | |
| Magnum PI (rerun) | 0.17 | 1.2 | |
| America's Got Talent: All Stars (rerun) | 0.12 | 0.9 | |
| America's Got Talent: All Stars (rerun) | 0.06 | 1.2 |
The CW still hasn't premiered most of its winter/spring schedule yet. The Flash held its premiere audience. Walker returned after a couple of weeks off steady. Walker: Independence was down one hundred thousand viewers.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| All American | 0.17 | 0.5 | Renewed |
| All American: Homecoming | 0.11 | 0.4 | |
| The Flash | 0.10 | 0.5 | Final Season |
| Walker | 0.09 | 0.8 | |
| Penn & Teller: Fool Us (rerun) | 0.09 | 0.6 | |
| Whose Line Is It Anyway | 0.09 | 0.6 | Cancelled |
| Whose Line Is It Anyway (rerun) | 0.09 | 0.6 | |
| Kung Fu | 0.08 | 0.4 | |
| Masters Of Illusion | 0.05 | 0.5 | |
| World's Funniest Animals | 0.05 | 0.5 | |
| World's Funniest Animals: Valentine's Day (rerun) | 0.05 | 0.4 | |
| Walker: Independence | 0.05 | 0.4 | |
| The Winchesters (rerun) | 0.05 | 0.3 | |
| Whose Line Is It Anyway (rerun) | 0.05 | 0.2 | |
| Masters Of Illusion (rerun) | 0.04 | 0.4 | |
| World's Funniest Animals (rerun) | 0.04 | 0.4 | |
| Whose Line Is It Anyway (rerun) | 0.03 | 0.2 | Cancelled |
| World's Funniest Animals (rerun) | 0.02 | 0.2 | |
| World's Funniest Animals (rerun) | 0.02 | 0.2 |
No renewals or cancellations last week. How are your favorite shows doing?
Written by LadyShelley on Feb 20, 2023
Everyone, including members of the cast, expected NCIS: LA to end last season, if you watch the show and saw the finale you'd see why. Eric Christian Olsen was even tweeting that he thought it was the last season LOL! And then they got renewed. So the cancellation this season probably wasn't much of a surprise. The problem for any show that airs on Sunday on a network that airs NFL football is when the afternoon game overruns into primetime. The Networks love that as it counts as prime-time viewers when they go to advertisers with their rates. Fans hate it because as you say, the schedule for the rest of the evening is a mess.
NCIS LA has announced this is last season. You would think that they would learn numbers will be down when you don't keep a consistent schedule.