Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Titan Games premiered Thursday to some pretty strong Nielsen numbers. Of course, one day after the actual Titanic-sized Masked Singer debut on Fox, the early returns for NBC’s new alternative series don’t look quite as big as they otherwise might.
Titan Games opened to a 1.8 rating/8 share among adults 18-49 and 6.5 million total viewers. The rating was enough to hand NBC a primetime win in the demo — the net’s first ever on a non-sports Thursday while facing an original Big Bang Theory”— though CBS topped the night in terms of overall eyeballs.
Over on Fox, the final season of Gotham started pretty quietly. NBC’s “The Blacklist” season premiere benefitted from a beefed-up lead-in.
NBC was first in ratings with a 1.5 rating/6 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and second in total viewers with an average of 5.7 million, according to preliminary numbers. Following “Titan Games,” the new season of “The Blacklist” at 10 p.m. began to a 0.9/4 and 4.2 million viewers.
CBS was second in ratings with a 1.3/6 and first in viewers with 8.1 million. “Big Bang” at 8 earned a 2.2/10 and 12.6 million viewers. At 8:30, “Young Sheldon” posted a 1.7/7 and 10.9 million viewers. After a pair of reruns, “S.W.A.T.” at 10 received a 0.9/4 and 6 million viewers.
