Ratings: CSI: Vegas Audience Hits Series High, Tracker Grows for a 3rd Straight Week
In the latest TV show ratings, CBS’ freshman hit Tracker was for a second straight week the most-watched show on Sunday night.
The venerable newsmagazine 60 Minutes this week opened CBS’ Sunday slate with 7.1 million total viewers. Leading out of that, The Equalizer (6.5 mil) was up 6% in total audience, to a season high.
Justin Hartley’s Tracker once again built on its lead-in by delivering 7.4 million total viewers, up 8% week-to-week and marking the freshman drama’s third straight week of growth.
CBS notes that Tracker — which enjoyed a post-Super Bowl launch, mind you — currently stands as the most-watched new show on TV since Young Sheldon (which in 2017-18 averaged 16.49m viewers) and is the most-watched new drama since Empire (which in 2014-15 averaged 17.33m viewers).
Closing out CBS’ night, CSI: Vegas (4.3 mil) was up 6% in audience to mark an all-time high for the offshoot.
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OMG Tracker. Good to see Vegas grow.
how is the broadcast TV surviving such huge drop in audience over the years…. what is the threshold?
Audience wasn’t what advertisers pay for, they look at the demo number (18-49) more than metric
I love Tracker! I am so happy to have The Equalizer and Tracker on the same night. I like CSI Vegas also. A super night for me!
Wow, first Tracker beats the 2021 version of The Equalizer on its regular-timeslot premiere, and now it beats 60 Minutes for two weeks in a row? Amazing. Not since Murder, She Wrote in the mid-to-late-80s and Touched by an Angel from 1996 to 1998 have I seen the viewership for a 60 MInutes lead-out beat that iconic newsmagazine. Because of this, I guess we will have no choice but to stick with the unowned Tracker. I’m anticipating a five-season run like Person of Interest.
(Very angry, raspy whisper) Tracker better not die without a proper send-off like The Unit and Life in Pieces did, either.
Jim, You’re an old school viewer, just like me.
Nah, I just have some experience in researching broadcast-TV ratings/viewership, and stopped watching CBS regularly five years ago.
I just watched Person of Interest again recently, and I was reminded that Finch’s girlfriend Grace was portrayed by Elsbeth
Carrie Preston is the real-life wife of Michael Emerson of PoI