Thursday TV Ratings: ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ Finale Defeats Competition

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The season finale of ABC’s revival of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? took over Thursday’s primetime broadcast television schedule by winning in both the coveted 18-49 demo and in total viewers. The other reality games shows on the network — Holey Moley and To Tell the Truth also performed well, both winning in the 18-49 demo and Truth also winning its time slot in total viewers.

NBC’s Council of Dads rose slightly over last week’s numbers (2.74 million) but came in third in the 8 o’clock hour after Millionaire and a rerun of CBS’s Young Sheldon.

Here’s the breakdown for Thursday, June 4, 2020 (numbers are fast-affiliate based):

Time Show Adults 18-49 Rating Total Viewers (millions)
8 p.m. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – F  (ABC) 0.9 6.55
Young Sheldon  – R (CBS) 0.6 5.06
Council of Dads (NBC) 0.4 2.82
Celebrity Watch Party  (Fox) 0.4 1.50
Burden of Truth  (CW)  0.1 532,000
8:30 p.m. Man with a Plan  (CBS) 0.6 4.75
9:00 p.m. Holey Moley (ABC) 0.7 3.94
Mom – R  (CBS) 0.6 4.59
Blindspot (NBC) 0.3 1.98
Labor of Love (Fox) 0.2 941,000
In The Dark  (CW) 0.1 425,000
9:30 p.m. Broke  (CBS) 0.5 4.03
10 p.m. To Tell The Truth (ABC) 0.6 3.56
SWAT – R (CBS) 0.3 2.84
Law & Order: SVU – R (NBC) 0.3 1.91
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