Tuesday TV Ratings: ‘This Is Us’ Wins Night, ‘The Resident’ & ‘Prodigal Son’ Return Down

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The new programming across Tuesday night — Zoey’s Extraordinary PlaylistThis 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