Preliminary Ratings: Tuesday 09/26/2017

NBC wins night two of the 2017-18 season, sweeping and dominating the demographic categories and coming in second in total viewership. The hit drama, THIS IS US posted the best numbers on the night, with a 3.8 rating in Adults 18-49 and a 2.5 rating in the younger, A18-34 age group. THE VOICE led into the drama with 10.6 million viewers and a 2.6 rating ing in the A18-49 demographic. Low point of the night, for NBC was the new anthology series, LAW & ORDER: TRUE CRIME, which lost over half its THIS IS US lead in audience. NBC still won every hour of the night, except viewership, at 8 PM.

The CBS crime dramas pushed CBS to the most watched network of the night and a second place finish, overall. But, each one of the shows were down from last year's premieres. NCIS lost three million viewers and nearly 20% in the demo. BULL dropped 5.7 million viewers and a full point in the demo. NCIS: NEW ORLEANS was off by 2.4 million viewers and over 30% in the demographic rating.

ABC secured third place with a consistent night, including the season finale of CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD and DANCING WITH THE STARS. The two shows posted near identical demographic numbers and were only off by 900k in total viewership.

FOX still continues to be a 4th place network, beating only CW encores in each hour.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	6.70 million	0.9	1.3	1.7
CBS	10.60 million	0.7	1.3	2.0
CW	0.90 million	0.2	0.2	0.3
FOX	3.40 million	0.7	1.0	1.3
NBC	9.80 million	1.8	2.7	3.4

Time	Net	Program	P2*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	Celebrity Family Feud (SF)	6.00	0.8	1.3	1.7
9:00	ABC	Dancing With The Stars	7.10	0.9	1.3	1.7
8:00	CBS	NCIS (SP)	13.10	0.9	1.6	2.4
9:00	CBS	BULL (SP)	9.90	0.7	1.2	1.9
10:00	CBS	NCIS: NO (SP)	8.70	0.6	1.0	1.6
8:00	CW	The Flash [R]	0.90	0.2	0.2	0.3
9:00	CW	Legends of Tomorrow [R]	0.90	0.2	0.3	0.3
8:00	FOX	Lethal Weapon (SP)	4.30	0.7	1.2	1.5
9:00	FOX	The Mick (SP)	2.80	0.7	0.9	1.1
9:30	FOX	Brooklyn Nine-Nine (SP)	2.10	0.6	0.8	0.9
8:00	NBC	The Voice	10.60	1.7	2.6	3.3
9:00	NBC	This Is Us (SP)	12.60	2.5	3.8	4.8
10:00	NBC	Law & Order: True Crime (SP)	6.20	1.1	1.7	2.1

* - viewers in millions