Broadcast primetime live + same-day ratings for Thursday, January 30, 2020

The numbers for Thursday:

The Good Place went out with a minor uptick in this weeks Thursday primetime ratings.

The 1-hour series finale of the NBC comedy scored a solid 0.7 rating among adults 18-49 with 2.35 million viewers. That puts The Good Place up a tick from its penultimate episodes 0.6 rating and 2.12 million viewer audience last week, and also makes it the shows highest-rated and most-watched outing since its season premiere back in September. A post-finale Good Place special also raked in a 0.6 rating with 2.06 million viewers.

Additionally, Superstore stayed steady on NBC by matching its 0.7 from a week ago, and Law & Order: SVU (0.6) returned from a week off in steady fashion as well.

Elsewhere, it was a down night across for the board for ABC, starting with Station 19, which fell from its season premieres 1.2 rating last week to a 1.0 this time around. Greys Anatomy (1.1) similarly dropped three-tenths week-to-week, but remained the nights no. 1 show in the 18-49 demo, while A Million Little Things slipped from a 0.7 to a 0.6.

FOXs Thursday night lineup also experienced a variety of upticks and downticks this week, as Last Man Standing (0.7) and Outmatched (0.6) both inched down one-tenth from their last outings, but Deputy (0.6) ticked up a tenth. The CWs Supernatural (0.3) and Legacies (0.3) each rose one-tenth from their ratings a week ago as well.

On CBS, Young Sheldon (1.0), The Unicorn (0.6), Mom (0.7), and Carols Second Act (0.6) all returned from a week off with the same ratings as their previous episodes. Sheldon also, once again, raked in the largest audience of any of the nights shows (8.6 million viewers). Meanwhile, the season finale of Evil capped off the night for CBS with a 0.5 rating, up one-tenth from its penultimate outing.

Network averages:

Definitions:

Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings are available at approximately 11 a.m. ETthe day after telecast. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns.Share (of Audience):The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time.Time Shifted Viewing:Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data Live, Live +Same-Day and Live +7 Day. Time-shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+SD includes viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3 a.m. local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live +7 ratings include viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.

Source: The Nielsen Company.

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