Preliminary Ratings: Tuesday 04/05/2016

CBS takes a broom to the Tuesday night ratings, winning the night in every category. Strong returns for NCIS and NCIS: NEW ORLEANS lead the CBS to the win, being the top two programs in each category, except A18-34 where NCIS: NEW ORLEANS was third in the demo.

NBC edges FOX for second place, as THE VOICE was in recap mode, again. The hot series fell below an AMERICAN IDOL retrospective, on FOX, for a third place finish. Both CHICAGO franchises were up from last week, by a tenth in the A18-49 demo and by three tenths in the A25-54 demo.

FOX was above average with the AMERICAN IDOL retrospective as it averaged a 1.4 demo rating over the 90 minute program. Viewership was more than double what the comedies draw, collecting 5.9 million viewers.

ABC was a distant 4th place, with little traction from any of its shows.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	3.00 million	0.5	0.8	1.1
CBS	11.30 million	0.9	1.6	2.4
CW	1.30 million	0.4	0.4	0.5
FOX	5.10 million	0.9	1.3	1.8
NBC	7.20 million	0.9	1.5	2.1

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	Fresh Of The Boat	4.20	0.6	1.1	1.5
8:30	ABC	The Real O'Neals	3.70	0.6	1.0	1.4
9:00	ABC	Agents of Shield	2.90	0.6	0.9	1.1
10:00	ABC	Beyond The Tank	2.00	0.3	0.5	0.6
8:00	CBS	NCIS	15.40	1.0	2.0	3.1
9:00	CBS	NCIS: New Orleans	12.20	0.9	1.7	2.5
10:00	CBS	Limitless	6.20	0.7	1.1	1.5
8:00	CW	The Flash [R]	1.40	0.4	0.4	0.5
9:00	CW	iZombie	1.10	0.4	0.4	0.4
8:00	FOX	American Idol	5.90	0.9	1.4	2.0
9:30	FOX	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	2.80	0.7	0.9	1.1
8:00	NBC	The Voice	6.70	0.9	1.3	1.9
9:00	NBC	Chicago Med	7.10	0.9	1.5	2.1
10:00	NBC	Chicago Fire	7.70	1.0	1.6	2.2

* - in millions