‘Tough As Nails’ Premiere Tops Wednesday Ratings; ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Audience Rises

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CBS’ new reality competition series Tough As Nails lived up to its title and topped Wednesday’s primetime ratings, delivering a 0.6 in the adults 18-49 demographic and netting 4.07 million viewers. The two-hour premiere episode was followed by a rerun of S.W.A.T, which gave the network a 0.5 average and a share of the demo top spot overall with Univision.

After reruns of The Goldbergs, Black-ish, The Conners and American Housewife, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (0.3, 1.41M) wrapped ABC’s lineup, holding steady with its biggest audience in four weeks.

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At the CW, The 100 (0.1, 686,000) dipped in the demo with its backdoor prequel pilot, while Bulletproof (0.1, 407K) maintained its numbers from last week.

Fox served a repeat of MasterChef followed by the return of Ultimate Tag (0.5, 1.53M), which bumped up a tenth since its last fresh episode.

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