Ratings: Live Sitcoms Dominate, Lead ABC to a 12-Year Audience High; Whiskey Cavalier Ends on 11-Week High
ABC’s live, star-studded, 90-minute staging of All in the Family and The Jeffersons episodes averaged 10.4 million total viewers and a 1.8 demo rating (per finals), dominating the night in both measures while giving the network its most watched season-ending Wednesday in 12 years.
In the demo, Live in Front of a Studio Audience Yada Yada marked ABC’s third highest comedy telecast of the season, trailing only the first two episodes of The Conners.
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TVLine readers gave All in the Family an average grade of “B-” and The Jeffersons rated a “B+,” while 83 percent voted that ABC should do more of these specials. And you have to think they now will! Ka-ching.
Leading out of the live sitcoms, a special about Norman Lear did 7.8 mil and a 1.4, while Whiskey Cavalier (3.6 mil/0.7, TVLine reader grade “A-“) hit an 11-week demo high (since its first Wednesday outing) with its ABC finale.
Elsewhere:
CBS | Leading out of The Amazing Race (4.3 mil/0.8), SEAL Team (4.2 mil/0.7, TVLine reader grade “A-“) ticked up with its Season 2 finale.
NBC | The finales of Chicagos Med (7.6 mil/1.1, reader grade “B”), Fire (7.5 mil/1.1, “A-“) and P.D. (6.6 mil/1.0, “B+”) were steady in the demo.
THE CW | With Yankee baseball now subtracted out: Leading out of My Last Days (460K/0.1), Jane the Virgin (480K/0.2) was steady in the demo while slipping to an all-time audience low.
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