Thursday TV ratings: For the People & A.P. Bio debut down, Superstore returns up [Mar. 7]
Mar. 7 wasn’t a good night for shows across all networks. The majority of shows were down, including For the People and A.P. Bio’s season debuts, although Superstore did return up. Here’s a look at the Thursday TV ratings.
For the People and A.P. Bio debuted new seasons last night, while Superstore and Supernatural returned. Mar. 7 wasn’t a great night across the board, with only a few shows seeing upward ticks. Here’s a look at all the Thursday TV ratings.
The only shows to see upward ticks in the ratings were Superstore (3.07m/0.8), Fam (5.72m/0.9), Will & Grace (2.63m/0.7), and S.W.A.T. (5.47m/0.9). All the rest saw downward dips, with some bigger than others. There doesn’t seem to be a reason for this — except maybe many of you were like me and headed out to the theaters for the Captain Marvel preview night.
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Despite being down from the last episode, The Big Bang Theory was the best show of the night. It pulled in 12.78 million people and a 2.1 demo, with spin-off Young Sheldon coming in second across the whole night with 11.51 million people and a 1.7 demo rating. It’s going to be interesting to see how Thursday nights fair when The Big Bang Theory ends in May.
Grey’s Anatomy had the third best result in the 8-9 p.m. timeslot and the night in terms of demo (fourth in the total audience behind Mom on CBS). Down from its milestone episode, it pulled in 6.61 million people and a 1.5 demo. Meanwhile, Gotham pulled in 2.11 million and 0.6 and Supernatural returned from its month-long break down with 1.3 million viewers and a 0.4 rating.
The 8:30 p.m. timeslot saw the debut of A.P. Bio Season 2, which was down from its first season premiere. This isn’t usually that surprising. A series premiere tends to pull in some of the highest ratings because people tune in to check it out. However, the second season premiere was around 40% down in both metrics and already sits around 30% down from the season average. Hopefully, this can start steadying out.
In the 9 p.m. slot, everything saw a dip in the ratings. Station 19 returned from its long winter break with a 14% dip in the demo and 9% dip in the total audience. The newly-renewed Brooklyn Nine-Nine dipped by 16% and 15% in the demo and audience respectively.
Legacies, which thankfully has a second season now, is the most worrying. It saw a 33% decrease in the demo, against a 2% decrease in the total audience. The demo is now at a series low, although the audience is still up from its lowest points.
For the People also debuted its second season down from its first season premiere. This one saw a 23% decrease in the demo, but the total audience wasn’t too bad. Just 0.75% of the audience was down from the series premiere last year, which actually takes the audience figures 30% up from the first season average. In fact, the show saw a demo high since Episode 7 and a total audience high since Episode 3.
Check out the full Thursday TV ratings.
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