ABC had an up week last week. The Golden Bachelor picked up three hundred thousand viewers. Sister show, Bachelor in Paradise was even. The weekly primetime games shows were all up. Celebrity Jeopardy! and The $100,000 Pyramid were each up half a million viewers. Press Your Luck gained about three hundred thousand viewers. Part two of The Great Hallowe'en Fright Fight picked up six hundred thousand viewers.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Monday Night Football | 1.59 | 8.36 | |
| The Golden Bachelor | 0.58 | 4.77 | |
| College Football | 0.50 | 2.34 | |
| Dancing with the Stars | 0.47 | 4.75 | |
| Celebrity Jeopardy! | 0.43 | 3.86 | |
| America's Funniest Home Videos | 0.38 | 4.12 | |
| Sunday Movie: Hocus Pocus | 0.35 | 2.46 | |
| Shark Tank | 0.34 | 3.25 | |
| Bachelor In Paradise | 0.32 | 1.96 | |
| 20/20 | 0.30 | 3.74 | |
| Celebrity Wheel Of Fortune (rerun) | 0.29 | 2.90 | |
| The $100,000 Pyramid | 0.22 | 2.47 | |
| Press Your Luck | 0.20 | 2.23 | |
| The Great Hallowe'en Fright Fight (finale) | 0.20 | 1.73 |
CBS feasted on another NFL overrun, bumping up 60 Minutes once again. The network pulled Loteria Loca, effectively cancelling the show after it barely pulled one million viewers last week. There might be one more aired episode in December, but any remaining episodes will likely be burned off over next summer or pushed off to Paramount+. Buddy Games wrapped its first season down one hundred thousand viewers. Its chances for renewal aren't very good. SEAL Team returned to the parent network with low numbers. Likely anyone interested in watching the show has already done so.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| NFL Overrun | 6.46 | 26.06 | |
| College Football | 1.80 | 8.01 | |
| 60 Minutes | 1.22 | 9.76 | |
| Survivor | 0.72 | 4.86 | |
| Yellowstone | 0.53 | 5.00 | Import |
| Big Brother (Thursday) | 0.51 | 2.82 | |
| Big Brother (Sunday) | 0.50 | 2.89 | |
| Big Brother (Tuesday) | 0.46 | 3.13 | |
| The Amazing Race | 0.33 | 2.60 | |
| Ghosts (rerun) | 0.29 | 2.98 | |
| Buddy Games (finale) | 0.26 | 1.86 | |
| Let's Make A Deal Primetime | 0.23 | 2.89 | |
| Raid The Cage | 0.23 | 2.19 | |
| Ghosts (rerun) | 0.21 | 2.50 | |
| FBI True | 0.18 | 2.01 | Import |
| Blue Bloods (rerun) | 0.17 | 2.09 | |
| SEAL Team | 0.17 | 1.46 | Import |
| FBI (rerun) | 0.14 | 2.11 | |
| Loteria Loca | 0.13 | 1.05 | |
| NCIS (rerun) | 0.12 | 1.61 |
NBC had a quiet week. Quantum Leap picked up four hundred thousand viewers, moving it into the top spot of the four scripted shows. The Irrational was down two hundred thousand viewers. Magnum PI dropped one hundred thousand viewers, while Found was down four hundred thousand viewers.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Sunday Night Football | 4.43 | 15.72 | |
| Football Night In America | 1.61 | 6.38 | |
| College Football | 0.66 | 2.95 | |
| The Voice (Monday) | 0.51 | 6.33 | |
| The Voice (Tuesday) | 0.41 | 5.30 | |
| The Voice (clip show) | 0.34 | 3.75 | |
| Quantum Leap | 0.31 | 2.95 | |
| Dateline NBC | 0.29 | 2.24 | |
| The Irrational | 0.27 | 3.54 | |
| Magnum PI | 0.27 | 3.07 | Cancelled |
| Found | 0.27 | 2.82 | |
| The Wall | 0.24 | 2.25 | |
| Law & Order (rerun) | 0.19 | 2.34 | |
| Dateline NBC (Thursday) (rerun) | 0.19 | 2.19 | |
| Chicago PD (rerun) | 0.18 | 1.74 | |
| Transplant | 0.16 | 2.15 | Import |
FOX will take the ratings boost offered by the World Series even if ratings, in general, were down for the Fall classic. LEGO Masters and Hell's Kitchen each picked up one hundred thousand viewers. The Sunday animation block was generally up one hundred thousand viewers across the board.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| World Series Game 5 | 2.32 | 11.48 | |
| World Series Game 4 | 1.72 | 8.48 | |
| World Series Game 3 | 1.64 | 8.13 | |
| WWE Smackdown | 0.49 | 2.02 | |
| Hell's Kitchen | 0.38 | 2.19 | |
| The Simpsons (rerun) | 0.32 | 1.01 | |
| The Simpsons | 0.31 | 1.12 | Renewed |
| Bob's Burgers (rerun) | 0.31 | 0.97 | |
| LEGO Masters | 0.29 | 1.18 | |
| Bob's Burgers | 0.25 | 0.91 | Renewed |
| Family Guy | 0.24 | 0.86 | Renewed |
| Krapopolis | 0.24 | 0.83 | Renewed |
| College Football | 0.18 | 0.97 |
The CW surprised no one with the news that the upcoming shortened fourth season of Superman & Lois would be its last. Expect a similar fate for Walker, All American, and All American: Homecoming in the next few weeks. Penn & Teller: Fool Us picked up one hundred thousand viewers over its premiere to take the top spot on the ratings chart. The CW's only other original show, FBoy Island, was steady.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Penn & Teller: Fool Us | 0.07 | 0.66 | |
| Penn & Teller: Fool Us (rerun) | 0.06 | 0.37 | |
| Inside the NFL | 0.06 | 0.29 | |
| Sulivan's Crossing | 0.05 | 0.43 | Import |
| The Chosen | 0.04 | 0.52 | Import |
| Saturday Movie: Cowboys vs Aliens | 0.04 | 0.51 | |
| Son of a Critch | 0.04 | 0.36 | Import |
| The Spencer Sisters | 0.04 | 0.33 | Import |
| FBoy Island | 0.04 | 0.18 | |
| The Swarm | 0.03 | 0.30 | Import |
| FBoy Island | 0.03 | 0.24 | |
| Run the Burbs | 0.03 | 0.20 | Import |
| Children Ruin Everything | 0.03 | 0.18 | Import |
| Sullivan's Crossing (rerun) | 0.02 | 0.21 | Import |
| Son of a Critch (rerun) | 0.02 | 0.17 | Import |
| Everyone Else Burns | 0.01 | 0.17 | Import |
SAG/AFTRA announced over the weekend that negotiators were reviewing the "last, best offer" offered by the AMPTP. Both sides made press statements that they were cautiously optimistic that this offer would end the strike that will cross the 120-day mark on Friday. This week is deadline week for the scripted television season. Shows need to be back in production by next week at the latest in order to make a minimum ten to twelve-episode season.
Written by LadyShelley on Nov 6, 2023
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