Preliminary Ratings: Monday 04/02/2018

ABC premiered its newest drama, THE CROSSING, on Monday night, to somewhat soft results. It did win its 10 PM time slot, topping a weak GOOD GIRLS and a repeat episode of NCIS. Retention out of AMERICAN IDOL was 76% in total viewers and 71% in the A18-49 demographic. ABC was second on the night to NBC.

NBC topped the night, as THE VOICE was down 600k in viewers and a tenth of a point in the demo, from last week's ratings.

CBS was almost all repeats, with LIVING BIBLICALLY the only program in original episodes.

The CW Challenged FOX for fourth place, with FOX in encores and CW in originals.

 

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	6.50 million	0.9	1.3	1.8
CBS	5.50 million	0.5	0.9	1.4
CW	1.10 million	0.3	0.4	0.4
FOX	1.80 million	0.3	0.4	0.5
NBC	8.00 million	0.9	1.6	2.2

Time	Net	Program	P2*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	American Idol	7.10	1.0	1.4	2.0
10:00	ABC	The Crossing (SP)	5.40	0.6	1.0	1.3
8:00	CBS	The Big Bang Theory [R]	7.00	0.7	1.3	1.9
8:30	CBS	Young Sheldon [R]	6.60	0.6	1.2	1.8
9:00	CBS	The Big Bang Theory [R]	6.00	0.5	1.1	1.7
9:30	CBS	Living Biblically	4.20	0.4	0.8	1.2
10:00	CBS	NCIS [R]	4.60	0.3	0.6	0.9
8:00	CW	Legends of Tomorrow	1.30	0.3	0.4	0.5
9:00	CW	Penn & Teller: April Fools	0.90	0.2	0.3	0.3
8:00	FOX	Lucifer [R]	1.70	0.3	0.4	0.5
9:00	FOX	The Resident [R]	1.80	0.3	0.3	0.5
8:00	NBC	The Voice	9.90	1.1	1.9	2.6
10:00	NBC	Good Girls	4.30	0.5	0.9	1.3

* - viewers in millions