Thursday TV Ratings: ‘How To Get Away With Murder’ Series Finale Hits High
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? continues to dominate on Thursday nights, and this week, ABC’s revived quiz show hosted by Jimmy Kimmel grabbed the top spot in both the 18-49 demo (tying with time slot follower Station 19) and total viewers for the night.
For the series finale of ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder, the Viola Davis drama went out on a high after six seasons, winning the 10 o’clock hour in the 18-49 demo and hitting a season high in total viewers — its highest since October 2018 (3.3 million). NBC’s new drama Council of Dads hit a series low in total viewers with 2.84 million viewers though its 18-49 demo (0.4) was on par with the previous week.
Here’s the breakdown for Thursday, May 14, 2020 (numbers are fast-affiliate based):
| Time | Show | Adults 18-49 Rating | Total Viewers (millions) |
| 8 p.m. | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (ABC) | 0.9 | 6.48 |
| Young Sheldon – R (CBS) | 0.7 | 5.85 | |
| Council of Dads (NBC) | 0.4 | 2.84 | |
| Celebrity Watch Party (Fox) | 0.3 | 1.60 | |
| Katy Keene (CW) | 0.1 | 464,000 | |
| 8:30 p.m. | Man with a Plan (CBS) | 0.7 | 5.51 |
| 9:00 p.m. | Station 19 (ABC) | 0.9 | 5.88 |
| Mom – R (CBS) | 0.6 | 5.07 | |
| Mental Samurai – R (Fox) | 0.4 | 1.54 | |
| Blindspot (NBC) | 0.3 | 1.87 | |
| In The Dark (CW) | 0.1 | 341,000 | |
| 9:30 p.m. | Broke (CBS) | 0.6 | 4.63 |
| 10 p.m. | How to Get Away With Murder (ABC) | 0.7 | 3.24 |
| SWAT – R (CBS) | 0.4 | 3.36 | |
| Law & Order: SVU – R (NBC) | 0.3 | 2.35 |
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3 Million viewers is not a finale performance worth bragging about. HTGAWM was a show picked up by then ABC Executive Channing Dungey to please Shonda Rhimes. Shondaland was not good for ABC despite the long success of Grey's Anatomy. Dungey now will flop at Netflix along with Shondaland. That tie up, coming as Netflix faces intense competition, might end up leading to Netflix being acquired. Too much debt paying for programming not delivering.