Preliminary Ratings: Tuesday 09/02/14

CBS gave NBC a run for it's money, despite a night full of repeat programming, to BC's all-original line up. The two networks split the night, with NBC edging CBS in the A18-49 ratings, while CBS dominate the night in total viewers.

CBS repeated the NCIS: NEW ORLEANS backdoor pilot episodes of NCIS and posted it's best summer numbers, drawing 10.5 million viewers and a 1.4 demo rating, over the two hours. Both episodes beat everything on the night, except NBC's AMERICA'S GOT TALENT. Not a bad way to close out the summer run.

AMERICA'S GOT TALENT was the top show of the night, in the A18-49 demographic, but may have its lowest demo rating of the season, with just a 1.8 score. As the season comes to a close and a champion is crowned, the ratings for TALENT have been getting lower and lower.

ABC was a distant third place, with its all original line up. THE STORY OF FROZEN special did a little better than EXTREME WEIGHT LOSS did in the 8 p.m. hour, collecting 4.7 million viewers. EXTREME WEIGHT LOSS moved to 9 p.m. and posted bad numbers, again. It was down 20% in the demo and nearly one million viewers, from it's last episodes, two weeks earlier.

Preliminary Network Averages:

ABC - 3.5 million viewers, 0.9 rating in A18-49

CBS - 9.4 million viewers, 1.3 rating in A18-49

CW - 0.6 million viewers, 0.2 rating in A18-49

FOX - 1.6 million viewers, 0.6 rating in A18-49

NBC - 7.4 million viewers, 1.5 rating in A18-49

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-49	+/-
8:00	ABC	The Story of Frozen	4.70	1.1
9:00	ABC	Extreme Weight Loss	2.80	0.8	-40%
8:00	CBS	NCIS [R]	10.30	1.3
9:00	CBS	NCIS [R]	10.60	1.5	3%
10:00	CBS	NCIS: LA [R]	7.40	1.1	-30%
8:00	CW	Arrow [R]	0.70	0.2
9:00	CW	Supernatural [R]	0.60	0.2	-14%
8:00	FOX	Masterchef [R]	2.10	0.8
9:00	FOX	New Girl [R]	1.10	0.5	-48%
9:30	FOX	The Mindy Project [R]	1.20	0.6	9%
8:00	NBC	Food Fighters	4.50	1.1
9:00	NBC	America's Got Talent	8.80	1.8	96%

* - in millions