Thursday Ratings: Transplant Rises in Return to NBC
In the latest TV show ratings, ABC’s The Golden Bachelor and CBS’ Big Brother tied for the Thursday demo win, with the former also dominating the night in total audience.
ABC | The Golden Bachelor (with 3.8 million viewers and a 0.5 demo rating per finals, read recap) and Bachelor in Paradise (1.8 mil/0.3, read recrap) both dipped week-to-week.
CBS | Buddy Games (1.9 mil/0.3) and The Challenge USA (1.5 mil/0.2, read recap) were both steady, while Big Brother (2.7 mil/0.5, recap) dipped.
NBC | Following adjustment due to football preemptions in two markets, Transplant‘s Season 3 premiere did 2.2 mil and a 0.2, improving on its Season 2 averages on NBC (1.3 mil/0.1 in spring/summer 2022) and delivering its best Stateside audience since Season 1 (fall 2020). TVLine readers gave the premiere a rare average grade of “A+”; read post mortem.
FOX | Hell’s Kitchen (1.8 mil/0.3) dipped in both measures. The already-renewed LEGO Masters (910K/0.2) hit a new all-time audience low but was steady in the demo.
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The Live+Same Day numbers reported in our ratings column do not reflect a show’s overall performance, given the increased use of delayed playback via DVR and streaming platforms, plus out-of-home viewing. These numbers (Nielsen fast nationals, unless denoted as finals) instead aim to simply illustrate trends or superlatives. Steve Harvey is not a judge or lawyer and merely offers an alternative forum of dispute resolution.
NBC was pre-empted, so the ratings are inflated for Transplant.
Preempts have been double-secret officially confirmed, and a notation added! –Mgmt.
Kali!!!!
It was good to see that actress again.
Shame she might be the bad person.
Dear CBS,
Yes, I know they’re not going to read this or care though I’ve said it.
1st PLEASE cut Survivor and AR back to 1 HOUR PRONTO! I love both these shows especially my SURVIVOR but quit this crap! You could put an episode of Yellowstone in between for goodness sake!
Ok, Thursday night, I’m really enjoying Buddy Games not so much USA Challenge. It’s nothing like the originals totally boring and looks too fake to the audience. I would put BB back at 8pm keep BG for S2 at 9pm and then for 10pm I would either do a repeat season of a primetime show or a different reality show. Challenge USA needs to be revamped on MTV by the original creators not CBS!!!
Transplant was great!!!!! Kept your interest.
Bring back other new shows!!!!!!!!
Tv is horrible right now
I love Transplant! I’m so happy it’s back. But I wish they had brought back Nurses, too. It’s not as good as Transplant but it was still very enjoyable.
I enjoy the show, but find it very difficult to understand Bash with his rapid dialog and accent. Unless I have closed captioned on, I miss a lot of what is going on.