The Vice Presidential Debate scrambled schedules with regular Tuesday night programming preempted last week.
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NBC premiered its Thursday night Law & Order block last week. Venerable Law & Order opened its twenty-fourth season about even with the number of viewers it had for its finale in May. Law & Order: SVU opened well up from its finale, picking up nearly a million additional viewers. Law & Order: Organised Crime moved over to Peacock and was replaced with sophomore series Found, which opened low. It will need to come up in the numbers if fans want it to continue. Chicago Med picked up one hundred thousand viewers over its premiere. Chicago PD was up five hundred thousand viewers. Chicago Fire was about even. Brilliant Minds dropped five hundred thousand viewers from its premiere. It will need to improve those numbers if it has any chance of surviving.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| NFL Sunday Night Football | 5.37 | 20.0 | |
| Football Night In America | 2.01 | 7.88 | |
| Vice President Debate | 1.11 | 5.67 | |
| Debate Analysis | 0.62 | 3.81 | |
| The Voice | 0.49 | 5.88 | |
| Vice President Debate Preshow | 0.44 | 3.13 | |
| Law & Order: SVU (premiere) | 0.40 | 3.81 | |
| Chicago Fire | 0.36 | 5.65 | |
| Chicago Med | 0.36 | 5.52 | |
| Chicago PD | 0.36 | 4.82 | |
| Law & Order (premiere) | 0.36 | 3.64 | |
| Brilliant Minds | 0.27 | 3.46 | |
| Dateline: NBC | 0.25 | 2.44 | |
| Found (premiere) | 0.22 | 2.51 | |
| Brilliant Minds (rerun) | 0.14 | 1.82 |
ABC enjoyed another good night of NFL football. Doctor Odyssey dropped three hundred thousand viewers off its premiere. As long as it doesn't lose any more, it should be fine. Grey's Anatomy lost two hundred thousand viewers. 9-1-1 and The Golden Bachelorette were even.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Monday Night Football | 3.95 | 15.03 | |
| Vice President Debate | 1.00 | 6.35 | |
| Debate Analysis | 0.79 | 4.75 | |
| Vice President Debate Preshow | 0.48 | 3.59 | |
| 9-1-1 | 0.42 | 4.92 | |
| Doctor Odyssey | 0.31 | 3.86 | |
| Grey's Anatomy | 0.31 | 2.51 | |
| The Golden Bachelorette | 0.30 | 2.64 | |
| America's Funniest Home Videos (premiere) | 0.23 | 3.51 | |
| High Potential (rerun) | 0.17 | 2.38 | |
| 20/20 | 0.17 | 2.23 | |
| Doctor Odyssey (rerun) | 0.13 | 1.24 | |
| The Golden Bachelorette (rerun) | 0.07 | 1.03 | |
| Doctor Odyssey (rerun) | 0.06 | 1.00 |
CBS feasted on an NFL overrun last week. The network also premiered its latest competition show, The Summit, last week to low numbers. With most of the regular schedule yet ot be in place, the future does not bode well for the series. Two episodes of Big Brother were down a couple hundred thousand viewers each.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| NFL Overrun | 5.89 | 24.15 | |
| Vice President Debate | 1.68 | 9.57 | |
| Debate Analysis | 1.09 | 5.99 | |
| 60 Minutes | 1.07 | 9.57 | |
| Survivor | 0.63 | 4.34 | |
| Big Brother (Thursday) | 0.53 | 2.92 | |
| Vice President Debate Preshow | 0.50 | 3.70 | |
| Big Brother (Sunday) | 0.34 | 2.33 | |
| The Summit (premiere) | 0.32 | 3.03 | |
| The Price is Right At Night | 0.26 | 3.51 | |
| The Summit (rerun) | 0.24 | 1.51 | |
| Survivor (rerun) | 0.21 | 1.31 | |
| NCIS (rerun) | 0.18 | 2.09 | |
| NCIS (rerun) | 0.17 | 2.17 | |
| Elspeth (rerun) | 0.17 | 1.74 | |
| The Summit (rerun) | 0.16 | 0.88 |
FOX premiered its Sunday animation block last week. The Simpsons opened well, picking up four hundred thousand viewers from its finale in May. Bob's Burgers was up two hundred thousand viewers from its finale. Krapopolis picked up one hundred thousand viewers. Universal Basic Guys lost three hundred thousand viewers without the NFL assist but held its own with the rest of the block. It's in no danger at the moment. The network's other two freshman shows did not have good second weeks. Rescue Hi-Surf lost three hundred thousand viewers off its regular night premiere. Murder in a Small Town lost nearly one million viewers from its premiere. Both shows will need to settle quickly if they want to continue.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| College Football | 0.68 | 2.84 | |
| Vice President Debate | 0.54 | 2.48 | |
| The Masked Singer | 0.35 | 2.86 | |
| The Simpsons (premiere) | 0.33 | 1.08 | |
| The Floor | 0.30 | 2.08 | |
| Krapopolis (rerun) | 0.30 | 0.92 | |
| 9-1-1: Lone Star | 0.24 | 2.81 | Cancelled |
| Hell's Kitchen | 0.23 | 1.50 | |
| Murder in a Small Town | 0.21 | 1.96 | |
| Bob's Burgers (rerun) | 0.20 | 0.81 | |
| Bob's Burgers (premiere) | 0.20 | 0.72 | |
| Universal Basic Guys | 0.19 | 0.71 | |
| Rescue: Hi-Surf | 0.17 | 2.09 | |
| Crime Scene Kitchen | 0.16 | 1.12 | |
| Krapopolis (premiere) | 0.16 | 0.58 | |
| Murder in a Small Town(rerun) | 0.13 | 0.95 |
CW wrapped the final season of All American: Homecoming last week, even with the previous week's viewers numbers. The network also threw its hat into the primetime game show ring, premiering its version of Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble. Both shows did well by CW standards. ITVX import Joan premiered last week to middling numbers. Don't get too attached, though. It was only a six-episode series and was not picked up by its parent network.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| WWE: NXT | 0.26 | 0.90 | |
| Trivial Pursuit (premiere) | 0.09 | 0.49 | |
| Whose Line is It Anyway | 0.06 | 0.45 | |
| Whose Line is It Anyway | 0.06 | 0.41 | |
| Scrabble (premiere) | 0.06 | 0.39 | |
| All American: Homecoming (finale) | 0.06 | 0.28 | Cancelled |
| Sullivan's Crossing | 0.05 | 0.40 | Import |
| Penn & Teller Fool Us (rerun) | 0.04 | 0.32 | |
| Joan | 0.03 | 0.29 | Import |
| Inside the NFL | 0.03 | 0.25 | |
| Saving a Generation: The Fentanyl Crisis | 0.03 | 0.17 | |
| The Chosen | 0.02 | 0.49 | Import |
| The Conners | 0.02 | 0.25 | Import |
Network fall programming is starting to come into focus. How are your favorites doing so far?
Written by LadyShelley on Oct 8, 2024
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