NBC’s reboot of “Night Court” drew the largest audience for a comedy premiere since 2018 while the debut of Fox’s crime anthology “Accused” was the most-watched premiere since CBS’ “The Equalizer” on Super Bowl Sunday in 2021.
“Night Court” averaged 7.544 million viewers, the most for a comedy premiere since ABC’s “The Conners” averaged 10.567 million viewers on Oct. 16, 2018, according to The L-A Times citing live-plus-same-day figures released by Nielsen on Tuesday. It was eighth among prime-time programs airing between Jan. 16 and Sunday, behind three NFL playoff games, two pregame shows, one postgame show and “Accused.” A second episode that followed averaged 6.942 million viewers, 11th for the week, more than any comedy on any other network.
Two prime-time NFL playoff games gave Fox the largest weekly viewership of any network during the 18-week-old 2022-23 television season, averaging 14.52 million viewers , topping the previous high of 9.57 million for 22 hours by NBC a week earlier when it also aired two playoff games.
ABC was second, averaging 4.61 million, followed by CBS, which averaged 3.83 million and NBC, which averaged 3.4 million. ABC’s top non-NFL program was “The Rookie,” 20th for the week and 14th among non-NFL programs, averaging 4.777 million viewers.
CBS’ top-rated program was an edition of “60 Minutes” with three previously aired reports that were updated for the broadcast and averaged 6.319 million viewers, 12th for the week.
The top 20 prime-time programs consisted of two NFL games; three NFL pregame shows; one NFL postgame show; “Accused”; two episodes of “Night Court”; the three elements of NBC’s “Chicago” franchise; “60 Minutes”; six CBS scripted programs; and “The Rookie.”
📺BROADCAST TV NEWS
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir is the top-rated evening newscast for the week of January 16, 2023, reports TV Newser. With the week of Jan. 16 win, ABC’s evening news offering has now defeated its competition from NBC and CBS 216 of the past 217 weeks in average total viewers—and 144 of the last 146 weeks among adults 25-54.
World News Tonight averaged 8.78 million total linear viewers during the week of Jan. 16, a -3% decline from the previous week (the week of Jan. 9) but the largest audience on all of U.S. television for the second consecutive week, excluding sports programming, of course. The newscast also averaged more than 1.43 million viewers from the key A25-54 demo this past week, which is -5% from the prior week.
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt averaged 7.45 million total viewers during the week of Jan. 16, making it the fourth-most-watched U.S. show of the week—excluding sports, specials and syndication—but -1% down from the previous week. CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell averaged 5.48 million total viewers this past week, -1% from the previous week and -4% vs. the year-ago week.
📺LATE NIGHT TV
📺CABLE TV
The top-ranked cable program was the Dallas Cowboys-Tampa Bay Buccaneers wild-card round game on ESPN, which averaged 11.657 million viewers.
According to TV Newser citing live plus same day data from Nielsen, Fox News placed second overall in total primetime viewers among ad-supported basic cable networks, behind ESPN, averaging two million total viewers. FNC placed fourth overall in A25-54 among ad-supported basic cable outlets, behind ESPN, TNT, and TBS, with 256,000 viewers from the measurement. In total day FNC placed No. 1 overall in total viewers, averaging 1.39 million, and placed second in A25-54 viewers (behind ESPN), averaging 176,000.
MSNBC placed third in primetime among ad-supported cablers but with only 943,000 total viewers on average. The network has, in recent years, averaged more than a million primetime viewers on non-holiday weeks. The network placed third in total day viewers with 629,000 viewers. In Adults 25-54, MSNBC placed 31st in primetime (tied w/ E!, Paramount) with a 91,000 average and 23rd in total day with a 69,000 average.
CNN placed 18th in total primetime viewers with a paltry 444,000 viewers on average, and sixth in total day with 417,000 . In Adults 25-54, CNN placed 29th in primetime with 93,000 on average, and 15th in total day with 80,000 on average. The 80,000 A25-54 average in total day represents the network’s smallest delivery since 2014.
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The cable top 20 consisted of ESPN’s coverage of the Dallas-Tampa Bay game and its 13-minute pregame show; 14 Fox News Channel weeknight political talk shows (five broadcasts each of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and “Hannity” and four of “The Ingraham Angle”); History’s long-running chronicle of a search for treasure on a Canadian island, “The Curse of Oak Island”; TNT’s coverage of the Boston Celtics-Golden State Warriors NBA game; the Hallmark Channel movie “The Wedding Veil Journey”; and the TLC dating series, “90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?”
📺STREAMING TV
The second season of “Ginny & Georgia” was Netflix’s most-streamed television program for the third time in the three weeks it has been available, with viewers spending 87.4 million hours watching its 10 episodes, according to figures released by the streaming service Tuesday.
Viewership was down 46.3% from the 162.72 million hours watched the previous week, the season’s first full week of release. The season was watched for 180.47 million hours from Jan. 5-8, the first four days it was available. The first season was fourth for the week with 43.29 million hours watched.
“That ‘90s Show” was fifth with 41.08 million hours watched of its 10 episodes the first four days they were available.
Netflix’s most-watched film was “Dog Gone,” with viewers spending 20.91 million watching the drama about the search by a young man (Johnny Berchtold) and his father (Rob Lowe) for the son’s beloved dog after they become separated on the Appalachian Trail.
Viewership was up 10.8% from the 18.88 million hours the previous week when it was fourth and available for three days.
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