Preliminary Ratings: Thursday 05/18/2017

ABC wins the final Thursday night of the 2016-17 TV season, with the season finales of its two hit drama series. GREY'S ANATOMY kicked the night off with 7.7 million viewers and a 1.9 rating in Adults 18-49. SCANDAL's two-hour finale kept 70% of total viewers and 63% of the A18-49 audience, from the lead in.

CBS was second, despite encores from THE BIG BANG THEORY and the now cancelled THE GREAT INDOORS, and two hours of THE AMAZING RACE. FOX was right on the heals of CBS, with two hours of MASTERCHEF JR.

NBC kept a head of The CW, with the last two hours of this season's THE BLACKLIST. The third once hit drama failed to draw five million viewers or a 1.0 rating in Adults 18-49.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	6.10 million	0.9	1.4	1.9
CBS	4.80 million	0.5	0.9	1.4
CW	1.70 million	0.5	0.6	0.7
FOX	3.40 million	0.6	0.9	1.2
NBC	4.40 million	0.5	0.8	1.1

Time	Net	Program	P2*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	Grey's Anatomy (SF)	7.70	1.3	1.9	2.4
9:00	ABC	Scandal (SF)	5.30	0.7	1.2	1.7
8:00	CBS	The Big Bang Theory [R]	7.40	0.7	1.4	2.1
8:30	CBS	The Great Indoors [R]	5.10	0.5	1.0	1.5
9:00	CBS	The Amazing Race	4.30	0.5	0.9	1.2
10:00	CBS	The Amazing Race	3.80	0.4	0.7	1.1
8:00	CW	Supernatural	1.70	0.5	0.6	0.7
9:30	CW	Supernatural (SF)	1.70	0.4	0.6	0.6
8:00	FOX	Masterchef Jr.	3.20	0.5	0.8	1.1
9:00	FOX	Masterchef Jr.	3.60	0.6	1.0	1.3
8:00	NBC	Law & Order: SVU [R]	3.40	0.4	0.6	0.8
9:00	NBC	The Blacklist	4.80	0.5	0.9	1.2
10:00	NBC	The Blacklist (SF)	4.90	0.5	0.9	1.3

* - viewers in millions