Matlock earlier this week turned the primary new sequence of the 2024-25 broadcast season to get a renewal simply two episodes in. The drama starring Kathy Bates has backed up CBS’ early vote of confidence with one other sturdy displaying. In its third airing and second in its common Thursday 9 PM slot, Matlock drew 6.479 million viewers final night time in Stay+Similar Day per Nielsen, up 1.5% from final week.
Anticipated to hitch Matlock on the checklist of early renewals is Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, which was off simply 2.4% from its premiere final week, averaging 6.403M viewers. The Younger Sheldon spinoff and Matlock have been as soon as once more essentially the most watched applications of the night time in a photograph end, this time with the authorized drama on high.
The 2 exhibits stay the No.2 and three sequence in L+SD linear viewership solely behind CBS’ sophomore heavyweight Tracker, which posted one other 7M+ L+SD supply (7.46M) on Sunday and has successfully sealed a Season 3 renewal.
CBS as soon as once more had the 4 most watched applications of the night time, with No.3 Ghosts (5.546M) and No. 4 Elsbeth (4.446), down 0.4% and 6.5% from final week, respectively. After tying Ghosts for No.1 in adults 18-49 final week, Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage was outright No. 1 within the demo with 0.53 ranking, up 13%. (It additionally remained No.1 in adults 25-54 ( 0.9, +8%).
The Thursday leisure choices benefited from not dealing with baseball playoffs this week after having to compete with each NFL and MLB final Thursday, with a number of different exhibits, together with ABC’s Gray’s Anatomy (2.172M) and NBC’s Regulation & Order (3.332M), Regulation & Order: SVU (3.435M) and Discovered (2.116M), posting week-to-week linear viewership features.
Elsewhere Thursday, ABC’s 9-1-1 (3.977M) was essentially the most watched non-CBS program of the night time. Its lead-out, new medical drama Physician Odyssey continued its slide, with Episode 5 posting the fifth consecutive L+SD viewership decline to 2.595M (vs. 4.226M for the premiere.)
