Preliminary Ratings: Tuesday 05/31/16

NBC dominates the Tuesday night ratings, with its back-to-back season premieres of AMERICA'S GOT TALENT and the new variety series, MAYA & MARTY. AGT collected 11.6 million viewers and a solid 2.6 rating in Adults 18-49. That equals last year's demo number and increases total viewership by a half a million. But, the A18-34 demo is down by 15%.  The series premiere of MAYA & MARTY had a solid start, with 6.4 million viewers and a 1.5 A18-49 demo rating. It is a little below the mid-September debut of BEST TIME EVER w/ NEIL PATRICK HARRIS, last season.

With encores from 8 to 10 PM, CBS took second place on the night. A new PERSON OF INTEREST did hold its encore lead in, but was a distant second place in the hour.

Two hours of 500 QUESTIONS didn't do much for ABC. Neither episode came close to drawing five million viewers.

FOX was all-new, but the results are the same, a fourth place finish. COUPLED barely beat the CW's CONTAINMENT, at 9 pm.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	3.60 million	0.5	0.8	1.0
CBS	7.00 million	0.5	1.0	1.4
CW	1.10 million	0.3	0.4	0.5
FOX	2.00 million	0.6	0.7	0.9
NBC	9.90 million	1.4	2.2	3.0

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	500 Questions	4.30	0.6	0.8	1.1
9:00	ABC	500 Questions	4.10	0.6	0.9	1.1
10:00	ABC	Fresh Of The Boat [R]	2.30	0.4	0.7	0.8
8:00	CBS	NCIS [R]	7.40	0.5	0.9	1.4
9:00	CBS	NCIS: NO [R]	7.00	0.5	1.0	1.4
10:00	CBS	Person Of Interest	6.60	0.4	1.0	1.5
8:00	CW	The Flash [R]	1.10	0.2	0.4	0.4
9:00	CW	Containment	1.10	0.3	0.4	0.5
8:00	FOX	Hotel Hell	2.40	0.6	0.8	1.1
9:00	FOX	Coupled	1.50	0.5	0.5	0.6
8:00	NBC	America's Got Talent (SP)	11.60	1.6	2.6	3.4
9:00	NBC	Maya & Marty (SP)	6.40	0.9	1.5	2.1

* - in millions