2021-22 TV Season Program Rankings: ‘Sunday Night Football’, ‘This Is Us’ Final Chapter & ‘NCIS’ Lead Top 40
05.06.2022 - 22:27
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The 2021-2022 television season concluded last week with NBC’s football coverage and NCIS returning to the top of the Nielsen ratings charts, and This Is Us going out with one last win for the Pearsons.
As Deadline reported last month, CBS was primetime’s the most-watched broadcast network this season with an average of 6.3 million viewers, matching last year’s numbers to a tee, per Nielsen’s most current data. The network’s audience win shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise considering it’s been first in viewers for 13 consecutive years heading into the start of the 2021-22 season in September. While CBS repeated its viewership win, Fox, winner among adults 18-49 for the past two seasons, was edged out by NBC which took the 2021-22 demo crown with a 1.1 rating vs 1.0 for Fox. Both networks are losing major ratings drivers next season, drama This Is Us (NBC) and Thursday Night Football (Fox).
Contributing to CBS’ 2021-2022 audience win were both long-time primetime staples and newcomers. Maintaining its throne, NCIS was the most-watched scripted series of the season once again, despite minor slips in both viewers and 18-49. As the established NCIS and FBI series stayed in the top rankings echelon, freshmen Ghosts, NCIS: Hawai’i and FBI: International — all renewed for a second season — broke through to the Top 40 in viewers. Ghosts, which proved to be a ratings powerhouse for CBS, also snagged a spot on the Top 25 demo ratings list. Overall, CBS claimed 19 spots on the list of the top 40 most-watched programs of last season, and 11 on the demo Top 40 chart.
This year’s slate of cancellations was a bloody one for CBS, which gave seven shows the chop, including Magnum P.I. The reboot was the highest-rated series to get
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