CBS made some interesting moves last week. The network announced the cancellation of Young Sheldon and SEAL Team (technically airing on Paramount+ now but will mention it since the network is currently airing the latest season.) Both shows will end after their upcoming seasons. The Eye Network also pulled in more imports last week with the premieres of NCIS: Sydney, Lawman: Bass Reeves, and the UK version of Ghosts. Raid The Cage lost one hundred thousand viewers last week. Let's Make A Deal Primetime lost one million viewers. Survivor and The Amazing Race each picked up six hundred thousand viewers.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Survivor | 0.77 | 5.14 | |
| 60 Minutes | 0.60 | 8.13 | |
| The Amazing Race | 0.39 | 3.03 | |
| NCIS: Sydney | 0.34 | 5.64 | Import |
| Yellowstone | 0.32 | 4.75 | Import |
| Young Sheldon (rerun) | 0.24 | 3.04 | Cancelled |
| Ghosts (UK) | 0.24 | 2.88 | Import |
| Ghosts (UK) | 0.23 | 3.16 | Import |
| Lawmen: Bass Reeves | 0.22 | 3.55 | Import |
| NCIS (rerun) | 0.22 | 2.96 | |
| Let's Make A Deal Primetime | 0.19 | 1.77 | |
| Lawmen: Bass Reeves | 0.18 | 3.14 | Import |
| Ghosts (rerun) | 0.17 | 2.51 | |
| Raid The Cage | 0.17 | 2.20 | |
| NCIS (rerun) | 0.15 | 2.42 | |
| Blue Bloods (rerun) | 0.15 | 2.27 | |
| Jay-Z and Gayle King: Brooklyn's Own | 0.15 | 1.69 | |
| SEAL Team | 0.14 | 1.56 | Import (Cancelled) |
| NCIS (rerun) | 0.12 | 2.28 | |
| FBI True | 0.12 | 1.69 | Import |
ABC tried to celebrate Life Day early with an airing of The Empire Strikes Back as the Sunday movie. Unfortunately, this was one of the lowest-rated Sunday night movies for the season. The Golden Bachelor was up four hundred thousand viewers. The show has done well enough that it will probably be renewed. The Wednesday game shows were all up last week. Press Your Luck returned after a week off, down one hundred thousand viewers.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Monday Night Football | 1.60 | 9.21 | |
| The Golden Bachelor | 0.65 | 5.27 | |
| Dancing with the Stars | 0.64 | 5.12 | |
| Celebrity Jeopardy! | 0.51 | 4.24 | |
| Celebrity Wheel Of Fortune | 0.40 | 3.62 | |
| America's Funniest Home Videos | 0.36 | 4.07 | |
| Bachelor In Paradise | 0.36 | 2.24 | |
| Shark Tank | 0.31 | 3.21 | |
| The $100,000 Pyramid | 0.29 | 2.97 | |
| 20/20 | 0.24 | 2.59 | |
| Press Your Luck | 0.24 | 2.19 | |
| Sunday Movie: The Empire Strikes Back | 0.20 | 1.39 |
NBC bumped The Irrational for an episode of The Wall. The network would have been better served with an episode of the scripted show. The Wall was down almost a million viewers in the slot. Quantum Leap and Magnum PI returned after a week off. Quantum Leap was up one hundred thousand viewers while Magnum picked up three hundred thousand viewers. Found was up half a million viewers. The Peacock Network also made a few show announcements last week. The network picked up an additional episode of The Irrational while trimming its episode order for Lopez vs Lopez from thirteen episodes to ten. That's a good sign for The Irrational fans. Probably not good news for George Lopez fans.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Sunday Night Football | 4.20 | 15.64 | |
| Football Night In America | 1.52 | 6.19 | |
| The Voice (Monday) | 0.48 | 6.45 | |
| The Voice (Tuesday) | 0.45 | 5.55 | |
| Found | 0.37 | 3.32 | |
| The Voice (clip show) | 0.33 | 4.01 | |
| Quantum Leap | 0.32 | 3.00 | |
| Dateline NBC | 0.27 | 2.34 | |
| The Wall | 0.25 | 2.67 | |
| Law & Order (rerun) | 0.25 | 2.31 | |
| Magnum PI | 0.23 | 3.32 | Cancelled |
| Dateline NBC (Thursday) (rerun) | 0.23 | 2.18 | |
| Transplant | 0.22 | 2.16 | Import |
| Chicago PD (rerun) | 0.20 | 1.93 | |
| The Wall (rerun) | 0.17 | 1.71 |
FOX tried flipping timeslots for Krapopolis and The Simpsons last week. With the huge NFL overrun, it's hard to say if the experiment worked. Snake Oil lost another hundred thousand viewers and is just playing out the side at this point. Special Forces: World's Toughest Test picked up one hundred thousand viewers, but it's likely too little too late to save the show. Kitchen Nightmares was up one hundred thousand viewers. Hell's Kitchen was even.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| NFL Overrun | 5.29 | 21.73 | |
| The OT | 2.45 | 8.98 | |
| Krapopolis | 0.90 | 3.21 | Renewed |
| WWE Smackdown | 0.60 | 2.22 | |
| The Simpsons | 0.55 | 1.92 | Renewed |
| Bob's Burgers | 0.47 | 1.43 | Renewed |
| The Masked Singer | 0.43 | 3.21 | |
| Family Guy | 0.40 | 1.20 | Renewed |
| Hell's Kitchen | 0.34 | 1.98 | |
| Kitchen Nightmares | 0.30 | 1.59 | |
| Snake Oil | 0.26 | 1.39 | |
| Celebrity Name That Tune | 0.24 | 1.14 | |
| LEGO Masters | 0.23 | 1.04 | |
| Special Forces: World's Toughest Test | 0.22 | 1.23 | |
| 9-1-1: Lone Star (rerun) | 0.14 | 1.04 |
The CW premiered Whose Line Is It, Anyway last week on a new night, Tuesday instead of Friday. The sketch comedy series opened about even with where it ended last season. Penn & Teller: Fool Us again took the top spot on the ratings chart, even with the previous week.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Penn & Teller: Fool Us | 0.09 | 0.66 | |
| Whose Line Is It, Anyway | 0.09 | 0.48 | |
| Whose Line Is It, Anyway (premiere) | 0.09 | 0.46 | |
| Inside the NFL | 0.08 | 0.35 | |
| Son of a Critch | 0.05 | 0.34 | Import |
| Whose Line Is It, Anyway (rerun) | 0.05 | 0.32 | |
| FBoy Island | 0.05 | 0.28 | |
| The Great American Joke Off (rerun) | 0.05 | 0.26 | |
| Sulivan's Crossing | 0.04 | 0.51 | Import |
| The Chosen | 0.04 | 0.44 | Import |
| The Chosen | 0.04 | 0.44 | Import |
| Penn & Teller: Fool Us (rerun) | 0.04 | 0.33 | |
| The Spencer Sisters | 0.03 | 0.38 | Import |
| Children Ruin Everything | 0.03 | 0.23 | Import |
| World's Funniest Animals | 0.02 | 0.24 | |
| Masters Of Illusion | 0.02 | 0.22 |
With the SAG/AFTRA strike ending, networks started announcing premiere dates for scripted shows. ABC was the first network to announce its winter premiere schedule. Instead of a premiere week, the network plans a scattering of premieres starting at the end of January and continuing through early March. Expect the other networks to follow with their schedules soon.
Written by LadyShelley on Nov 20, 2023
Quantum Leap has in the last couple of episodes started to drift back to its more Sci-Fi / Adventure story lines somewhat. That seems to be helping, at least meagerly, in the ratings. I’m sure the rather haphazard scheduling with all this skipping weeks thing has to be negatively affecting ratings though. Hopefully the show will continue to improve with better scripts as the season goes on.
It did not air this week so I'm going with it was a preview to get folks to tune in on Paramount+.
they did the same thing with the new Frasier
Oh, another question: was CBS only planning airing the first two episodes of Lawman: Bass Reeves before saying keep watching on Paramount+?
I was a bit surprised when I saw that. It never performed at Big Bang Theory levels, but it was still the highest-rated comedy on the network. At a guess, it's entering its seventh season and just became too expensive.
No idea when the next episode of The Irrational will air. We are heading into the holidays when schedules get scrambled for all of the holiday fare. I wouldn't expect a new episode until the new year. Checking our listings ... yeah we have the next episode airing at the end of January. I'd guess the network wants to see how it does against its current stable of dramas before deciding whether or not to renew it.
Huh, didn’t know about Young Sheldon until I read it here. What a bummer. And as for the Irrational, do you know when a new episode will air?