By DAVID BAUDER, AP Media Author
NEW YORK (AP) — Queen Latifah is turning into a TV star for CBS at a time broadcast networks can actually use one, whereas Dwayne Johnson and Kenan Thompson made respectable sitcom debuts for NBC.
Latifah’s drama, “The Equalizer,” was the preferred scripted present on tv final week, the Nielsen firm mentioned, trailing solely first-place “60 Minutes” and giving CBS a powerful one-two punch on Sunday.
Johnson reached 5.3 million viewers for the premiere of “Younger Rock,” the NBC comedy based mostly on his life, sufficient to complete amongst Nielsen’s prime 20 reveals for the week.
One million of these viewers drifted away final Tuesday for the debut of “Kenan.” The sitcom starring the long-running “Saturday Night time Stay” solid member as an Atlanta TV host and single dad reached 4.2 million viewers, Nielsen mentioned.
A technology in the past, numbers like that would not be sufficient for a present to make a second week. However given community tv’s general fade, and the possibility for viewers to take a look at these sequence on a delayed foundation, and NBC will little question take it.
For a typical week in February — no main sports activities occasions and just about all prime-time reveals airing unique episodes — dwell viewership on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC was down 18% from the identical week final yr, Nielsen mentioned.
CBS received the week with a mean of 4.6 million viewers in prime time. ABC had 3.9 million, NBC had 3.5 million, Fox had 2.6 million, Univision had 1.6 million, Ion Tv had 1.1 million and Telemundo had 1 million.
Fox Information Channel was the preferred cable community, averaging 2.42 million viewers in prime time. MSNBC had 1.91 million, CNN had 1.6 million, HGTV had 1.12 million and Historical past had 1.01 million.
ABC’s “World Information Tonight” received the night information rankings race, averaging 10.2 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly Information” had 8.3 million and the “CBS Night Information” had 6.4 million.
For the week of Feb. 15-21, the 20 hottest packages, their networks and viewerships:
1. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 9.56 million.
2. “The Equalizer,” CBS, 8.13 million.
3. “Younger Sheldon,” CBS, 7.72 million.
4. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 7.59 million.
5. “Chicago Hearth,” NBC, 7.3 million.
6. “911,” Fox, 6.85 million.
7. “American Idol,” ABC, 6.67 million.
8. “Celeb Wheel of Fortune,” ABC, 6.03 million.
9. “Magnum, P.I.,” CBS, 5.97 million.
10. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 5.92 million.
11. “Chicago PD,” NBC, 5.88 million.
12. “NCIS,” CBS, 5.771 million.
13. “That is Us,” NBC, 5.766 million.
14. “911: Lone Star,” Fox, 5.73 million.
15. “The Bachelor,” ABC, 5.57 million.
16. “America’s Funniest House Movies,” ABC, 5.36 million.
17. “Mother,” CBS, 5.35 million.
18. “Younger Rock,” NBC, 5.32 million.
19. “B Constructive,” CBS, 5.11 million.
20. “MacGyver,” CBS, 4.96 million.
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