Tuesday TV Ratings: ‘NCIS’ Takes the Lead With Total Viewers and Key Demo

Jim Halterman April 15, 2020, 12:30 pm

NCIS Season 17 Episode 20 — Michael Yarish/CBS

Gibbs and company of NCIS took a huge lead over other Tuesday primetime programming with an over four million difference in total viewers from the second-place show (the first of two FBI: Most Wanted episodes brought in 8.97 million viewers in the 9 pm hour) . The CBS procedural, featuring a guest star turn by actor Christopher Lloyd, also took the lead in the 18-49 demo with a 1.2 rating.

Word of an early end for Fox’s once-hotter-than-hot Empire didn’t raise its numbers for it’s now-penultimate episode. In fact, this week’s installment dropped slightly from last week’s 2.8 million viewers.

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Here’s the breakdown for Tuesday, April 14, 2020 (numbers are fast-affiliate based):

Time	Show	Adults 18-49 rating	Total Viewers (millions)
8 p.m.	NCIS – (CBS)	1.2	13.18
	The Conners (ABC)	1.0	5.99
	Ellen’s Game of Games (NBC)	1.0	4.96
	The Masked Singer – R (Fox)	0.6	2.58
	The Flash – R (CW)	0.1	449,000
8:30 p.m.	Bless This Mess (ABC)	0.6	3.54
9 p.m.	New Amsterdam (NBC)	1.0	5.93
	FBI: Most Wanted (CBS)	0.9	8.97
	Empire (Fox)	0.7	2.71
	mixed-ish (ABC)	0.5	2.56
	DC’s Legends of Tomorrow– R (CW)	0.0	297,000
9:30 p.m.	black-ish (ABC)	0.5	2.29
10 p.m.	FBI: Most Wanted (CBS)	0.8	7.27
	NBC News Special (NBC)	0.6	3.71
	For Life (ABC)	0.5	2.20