Preliminary Ratings: Tuesday 01/26/2016

NBC and CBS split leadership on Tuesday night, with CBS getting the most viewers, despite an all encore line up, and NBC taking the three reported demographic ratings. For NBC, it had the two best rated programs in the A18-49 demographic, in CHICAGO MED and CHICAGO FIRE. The two dramas were also in the top five of most watched programs of the night.

ABC gave us the season premiere of PRIMETIME: WHAT WOULD YOU DO? to less than spectacular numbers. Just 2.6 million viewers tuned in at 10 p.m., ranking a distant third in its timeslot. Leading into PRIMETIME, week two of AGENT CARTER failed to draw three million viewers. Sadly, that is only slightly off its two hour season premiere, from last week.

FOX was all original on the night, but it could not do better than the CW. NEW GIRL/GRANDFATHERED lost to THE FLASH, in every category, while BROOKLYN 9-9 and THE GRINDER barely edges an encore of LEGENDS OF TOMORROW.

For the CW, THE FLASH tied for the third best A18-49 demo, with a 1.4 rating, and tied for the night's best A18-34 demo, with a 1.2 rating.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	2.80 million	0.4	0.8	1.0
CBS	8.50 million	0.7	1.3	1.9
CW	2.70 million	0.9	1.0	1.1
FOX	2.40 million	0.9	1.0	1.2
NBC	6.80 million	1.0	1.5	2.0

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	Fresh Off The Boat [R]	3.50	0.5	0.9	1.3
8:30	ABC	The Muppets [R]	2.20	0.3	0.6	0.8
9:00	ABC	Marvel's Agent Carter	2.90	0.4	0.9	1.1
10:00	ABC	Primetime: WWYD? (SP)	2.60	0.3	0.7	0.9
8:00	CBS	NCIS [R]	11.90	0.7	1.4	2.2
9:00	CBS	NCIS: New Orleans [R]	9.10	0.6	1.2	1.8
10:00	CBS	Limitless [R]	4.60	0.7	1.2	1.6
8:00	CW	The Flash	3.70	1.2	1.4	1.5
9:00	CW	Legends of Tomorrow [R]	1.70	0.5	0.6	0.7
8:00	FOX	New Girl	2.90	1.2	1.2	1.4
8:30	FOX	Grandfather	2.50	0.8	0.9	1.1
9:00	FOX	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	2.30	0.8	1.0	1.2
9:30	FOX	The Grinder	2.00	0.6	0.7	0.9
8:00	NBC	Hollywood Game Night	4.50	0.7	1.2	1.6
9:00	NBC	Chicago Med	7.50	1.1	1.6	2.2
10:00	NBC	Chicago Fire	8.40	1.2	1.8	2.3

* - in millions