“America’s Got Talent” and “60 Minutes” were the only shows to attract over 5 million viewers in the latest weekly prime-time television ratings. The ESPN-ABC simulcast of the NBA draft and a rerun of the CBS action drama “NCIS: Hawai’i” also managed to surpass 4 million viewers.
In its most recent episode, “America’s Got Talent” had an average of 5.985 million viewers, making it the second-lowest viewership among the four episodes aired this summer. The only episode with fewer viewers was the one on June 13, which had an average of 5.963 million viewers, according to Nielsen’s live-plus-same-day figures released on Tuesday.
“America’s Got Talent” has been the most-watched non-sports program for each of the four weeks of the 2023 summer television season.
“60 Minutes” had an average of 5.73 million viewers for an episode of the CBS news magazine that featured three previously aired segments updated for Sunday’s broadcast. This marked the second-highest viewership for the show out of its five summer editions, with the June 4 edition being the highest at 5.96 million viewers.
The ESPN-ABC simulcast of the NBA draft on Thursday had a combined average of 4.936 million viewers, setting a record for the NBA draft. ESPN’s average of 2.718 million viewers was the highest among all prime-time cable programming for the week.
The rerun of “NCIS: Hawai’i” attracted 4.124 million viewers, making it the most-watched rerun of a scripted program this summer.
CBS dominated the week’s ratings, with six out of the eight most-watched programs. It secured the top spot for the first time this summer, averaging 2.87 million viewers. NBC came in second with an average of 2.53 million viewers, while ABC ranked third with an average of 2.05 million viewers. ABC’s highest-rated program was the alternative courtroom comedy “Judge Steve Harvey,” which placed 13th for the week with an average of 3.051 million viewers.
All three major broadcast networks, CBS, NBC, and ABC, aired 22 hours of prime-time programming.
Fox had an average of 1.42 million viewers for its 15 hours and 40 minutes of prime-time programming. The most-watched program on Fox was the professional wrestling show “WWE’s Friday Night Smackdown,” which ranked 36th with an average of 2.354 million viewers for the second consecutive week.
The CW had an average of 340,000 viewers for its 14 hours of programming. The superhero series “Superman & Lois” remained the most-watched program on The CW for the fourth time in five weeks, with an average of 656,000 viewers. It ranked 131st among broadcast programs, just below the rerun of the 1960-68 CBS comedy “The Andy Griffith Show,” which aired on MeTV and had an average of 657,000 viewers in the 8:30 p.m. slot on June 19. The overall rank of “The Andy Griffith Show” was not available.
The only premiere among the five major English-language broadcast networks was the NBC alternative series, “LA Fire & Rescue,” which ranked 15th with an average of 3.006 million viewers.
The top 20 most-watched prime-time programs included NBC’s alternative shows “America’s Got Talent,” “American Ninja Warrior,” and “LA Fire & Rescue,” as well as their coverage of the Saturday Ally 400 NASCAR race. Other programs that made the list were “60 Minutes,” the ESPN-ABC simulcast of the NBA draft, reruns of CBS scripted series, and episodes of ABC alternative series.
During this week, ESPN’s coverage of the College World Series made it the most-watched cable network, averaging 1.769 million viewers. Fox News Channel came in second and topped the cable news networks for the second consecutive week, averaging 1.5 million viewers for the 122nd time in 123 weeks. MSNBC was the only other cable network to surpass 1 million viewers, with an average of 1.272 million.
CNN ranked third among cable news networks and sixth overall, with an average of 690,000 viewers.
The cable prime-time top 20 included ESPN’s coverage of the NBA draft and five College World Series games, two MSNBC political talk shows, seven Fox News Channel political talk shows, the first two hourlong segments of the USA Network’s professional wrestling show “WWE Raw,” interstitial programming between episodes of “1883” on Paramount Network, the Discovery competition series “Naked and Afraid: Last One Standing,” and the BET Awards.
Netflix’s most-watched title for the second consecutive week was “Extraction 2,” with viewers watching the action film starring Chris Hemsworth for a total of 87.3 million hours in its first full week of release. This nearly matched the 88.4 million hours it accumulated in the previous week when it was available for three days.
The most-watched television program on Netflix was the 24-episode Mexican drama “The Surrogacy,” which accumulated a total of 80.5 million viewing hours in its first full week of release. This was a 41% increase compared to the previous week when it was available for five days and had 57.1 million viewing hours.
Univision’s coverage of the Mexico-Honduras CONCACAF Gold Cup game on Sunday was the most-watched Spanish-language program, with an average of 2.238 million viewers, ranking 39th overall.
Univision remained the most-watched Spanish-language network for the 46th consecutive week and the 184th time out of 186 weeks, with an average of 1.22 million viewers. Telemundo ranked second with an average of 650,000 viewers, followed by UniMas (370,000) and Estrella TV (70,000).
ABC’s “World News Tonight with David Muir” once again topped the nightly newscasts, marking the 238th time in 239 weeks. It had an average of 7.37 million viewers. “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt” came in second with an average of 6.217 million viewers. “CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell” ranked third with an average of 4.471 million viewers.
The top 10 most-watched prime-time programs for the week were NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” CBS’ “60 Minutes” and “NCIS: Hawai’i,” ESPN and ABC’s simulcast coverage of the NBA draft, CBS’ “NCIS: Los Angeles,” “NCIS,” “Young Sheldon,” and “FBI,” NBC’s coverage of the Ally 400 NASCAR race, and CBS’ “FBI: Most Wanted.”
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