Tuesday TV Ratings: ‘This Is Us’ Wins Night, ‘The Resident’ & ‘Prodigal Son’ Return Down
The new programming across Tuesday night — Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, This Is Us, and The Resident and Prodigal Son premieres (compared with previous season’s averages) — were all down. (CBS aired reruns of its procedurals.) But despite the drop, This Is Us still topped the night both in the key demo (0.9 rating among adults 18-49) and viewers (5.3 million).
Also slipping: ABC’s Wonderful World of Disney airing of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which followed January 5’s The Lion King.
Here’s the breakdown for Tuesday, January 12, 2021 (numbers are fast-affiliate based):
| Time | Show | Adults 18-49 Rating | Total Viewers (millions) |
| 8 p.m. | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (ABC) | 0.5 | 2.6 |
| NCIS (CBS) | 0.5 | 5.1 | |
| Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (NBC) | 0.4 | 2.6 | |
| The Resident (Fox) | 0.6 | 3.8 | |
| Two Sentence Horror Stories (CW) | 0.1 | 576,000 | |
| 8:30 p.m. | Two Sentence Horror Stories (CW) | 0.1 | 474,000 |
| 9:00 p.m. | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (ABC) | 0.4 | 2.1 |
| FBI (CBS) | 0.5 | 4.3 | |
| This Is Us (NBC) | 0.9 | 5.3 | |
| Prodigal Son (Fox) | 0.5 | 2.3 | |
| Trickster (CW) | 0.1 | 441,000 | |
| 10 p.m. | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (ABC) | 0.4 | 2.0 |
| FBI: Most Wanted (CBS) | 0.4 | 3.9 | |
| Nurses (NBC) | 0.4 | 2.6 |
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