WHAT MATTERS:
- On Premiere Wednesday, it was ABC's turn to begin rolling out its new fall 2018 slate. Comedy Single Parents (1.3) looked maybe just a hair better than a typical episode of American Housewife in its 9:30 premiere after Modern Family (1.6), while new drama A Million Little Things (1.1) matched the year-ago second season premiere of Designated Survivor. It's a better debut night than last year's 9:30/10:00 premieres of failed The Mayor (1.2) and Kevin (Probably) Saves the World (1.0) on a Tuesday, but perhaps not by the margin ABC was hoping for. Returning comedies The Goldbergs (1.4), American Housewife (1.2 in a move to 8:30) and Modern Family (1.6) were all down 20-25% year-to-year in their season premieres.
- NBC put its three Chicago dramas together on the same night and got 1.2's across the board from Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago PD. It was a competent trio, but the shows generally skewed older than last season (perhaps benefiting in total viewers from no CBS drama competition). It was only a small improvement in Plus on the year-ago evening which led off with The Blacklist and Law and Order: SVU.
- Fox brought back the Lee Daniels duo of Empire (1.9) and Star (1.5), combining to go 19% below their premieres on the same night, and two tenths above their May season finales. For Empire, it's a continuation of the improved year-to-year declines that we saw from this show in the spring. (Last year's premiere was down a whooping 42%, and this one will be 20%ish.)
- And after premiering SEAL Team on the opening Wednesday last year, CBS returned to its strategy of offering a 90-minute Survivor premiere (1.6) followed by a 90-minute Big Brother season finale (1.7) on Premiere Wednesday. Survivor looked healthy, within a couple tenths of last fall's premiere, while Big Brother tied its highest rating of the summer but was (like most of the Big Bro season) down 20%ish from last year's finale.
| Show | Timeslot | Renewology | ||||||||
| Name | A18-49 | Skew | Last | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | R% | Last | True | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Goldbergs | 1.4 | 34% | -23% | +100% | -23% | 97% | 1.29 | |||
| American Housewife | 1.2 | 36% | -25% | +140% | -17% | 75% | 0.96 | |||
| Modern Family | 1.6 | 38% | -24% | +167% | -24% | 98% | 1.37 | |||
| Single Parents | 1.3 | 34% | +160% | -19% | 59% | 1.09 | ||||
| A Million Little Things | 1.1 | 29% | +120% | -3% | 68% | 1.09 | ||||
ABC: | +133% | -17% | ||||||||
| Survivor Fall | 1.7 | 27% | -3% | +51% | +1% | 1.53 | ||||
| Big Brother Wed | 1.7 | 38% | +0.2 | +264% | +23% | 1.65 | -0.13 | |||
CBS: | +113% | +11% | ||||||||
| Chicago Med | 1.2 | 20% | -6% | -43% | +6% | 87% | 1.10 | |||
| Chicago Fire | 1.3 | 20% | -12% | -38% | -8% | 88% | 1.09 | |||
| Chicago PD | 1.2 | 21% | -7% | +32% | -7% | 89% | 1.12 | |||
NBC: | -27% | -4% | ||||||||
| Empire | 1.9 | 41% | -22% | +98% | -22% | 99% | 1.79 | |||
| Star | 1.4 | 40% | -20% | +24% | -20% | 84% | 1.20 | |||
Fox: | +58% | -21% | ||||||||
| Burden of Truth | 0.1 | 27% | 0 | 0% | -47% | 0.21 | -0.03 | |||
| Supergirl (R) | 0.1 | 31% | 0% | -38% | ||||||
CW: | 0% | -43% | ||||||||
All: | +42% | -10% | ||||||||
PUT: | +5% | -9% | ||||||||
| American Horror Story | 0.92 | 61% | -0.15 | -20% | ||||||
| South Park | 0.66 | 78% | -31% | |||||||
| It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | 0.20 | 83% | -0.05 | |||||||
The full table can be sorted by clicking any of the category names at the top. Hover over 'Last', 'y2y' and timeslot numbers for more information on the previous episode(s) being compared. See here for more on the Plus version of the table.
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