Ratings: How'd Family Guy Do In Wednesday Move? Plus, Wild Cards Hits Audience High
In the latest TV ratings, CBS' Survivor was Wednesday's most-watched and highest-rated show, with NBC's #OneChicago in rerun mode for a few weeks.
CBS | Survivor (with 4.4 million total viewers and a 0.6 demo rating per Nielsen finals) was down week-to-week; read our recap and exit interview.
ABC | Leading out of two hours' worth of reruns, Judge Steve Harvey (1.5 mil/0.2) was down in audience yet up in the demo.
FOX | The Masked Singer (3.3 mil/0.4) returned down from its fall season averages; read recap. Animal Control (1.6 mil/0.2) returned to a bigger audience than its freshman average (1.3 mil), now that it has something actually resembling a lead-in. Family Guy christened its brand-new night with 919,000 viewers and a 0.2 rating, which is up a bit in audience vs. last season's post-football average (893K) but down a tick in the demo. (A previous version of this blurb compared Family Guy to this past fall's audience, which I remembered is NFL-inflated and thus an unfair comp.)
THE CW | Wild Cards (605K) swelled to a season high in audience; Family Law (457K) was also up sharply.
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