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[06/20/17 - 10:58 AM]
#1 U.S. Drama "NCIS" Named the Most Watched Drama in the World
This evening at the 57th Monte-Carlo Television Festival, CBS' global powerhouse series received the prestigious 12th International Television Audience Award for a Drama TV Series.
[via press release from CBS]

#1 U.S. DRAMA "NCIS" NAMED THE MOST WATCHED DRAMA IN THE WORLD

Hit CBS Series Honored with International TV Audience Award at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival

Over 47 Million Viewers Worldwide Watched "NCIS" in 2016

MONTE-CARLO, AMSTERDAM and LOS ANGELES - June 20, 2017 - NCIS, the #1 drama on U.S. television for the eighth consecutive year, is the most watched drama TV series in the world, according to Eurodata TV Worldwide. This evening at the 57th Monte-Carlo Television Festival, CBS' global powerhouse series received the prestigious 12th International Television Audience Award for a Drama TV Series. NCIS has now won the award three out of the last four years.

The annual International Audience Award is presented jointly by the Monte-Carlo Television Festival and Eurodata TV Worldwide. It rewards programs that delivered the highest ratings in 2016 worldwide across five continents, in three categories: Drama TV Series, Comedy TV Series and Telenovelas/Soap Operas.

International Audience Award nominees were pre-selected* among the top 15 imported fiction programs in 61 countries, representing almost 3 billion potential viewers. NCIS garnered more than 47 million viewers worldwide in 2016.

About CBS Studios International

CBS Studios International is the leading supplier of programming to the international television marketplace, licensing to more than 200 markets in more than 60 languages across multiple media platforms. The division distributes content from CBS Television Studios, CBS Television Distribution, SHOWTIME Networks, CBS News, CBS Films and a library of more than 70,000 hours of programming. The Studio participates in a number of international channel ventures and also exports a diverse lineup of formats for local production. CBS Studios International has 13 offices around the world, including its base in Los Angeles and EMEA headquarters in Amsterdam. CBS Studios International is a division of CBS Corporation.

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*Sources: Eurodata TV Worldwide / Admosphere (Armenia) / AGB Stat Ipsos (Lebanon) / AGF in Zusammenarbeit mit GfK (Germany) / AGTT - GfK Teletest (Austria) / ARMA - Kantar Media (Romania) / ATO - Nielsen Admosphere (Czech Republic) / Auditel - Nielsen Television Audience Measurement (Italy) / BARB - Kantar Media (United Kingdom) / BRC (South Africa) / Capacent (Iceland) / CIM - GfK (Belgium) / CSM Media Research (China) / Finnpanel Oy (Finland) / GARB Audience Research (Bulgaria) / GEVS (Belarus) / IARB - Kantar Media (Israel) / Kantar Media (Spain) / CAEM (Portugal) / Maxima Media (Mongolia) / CIAUMED - Marocme�trie (Morocco) / Medialogic Pakistan - GfK (Pakistan) / Me�diame�trie - Me�diamat (France) / Mediapulse TV-Panel (Switzerland) / MMS (Sweden) / Nielsen IBOPE Republica Dominicana (Dominican Republic) / Nielsen Media Research (USA, Venezuela) / Nielsen Television Audience Measurement (Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hong-Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Macedonia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Serbia, Slovenia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand) / Numeris (Canada) / Regional TAM - Nielsen Television Audience Measurement (Australia) / Stichting KijkOnderzoek - GfK (The Netherlands) / TAM Ireland Ltd - Nielsen TAM (Ireland) / Television Industry Committee - Nielsen Ukraine (Ukraine) / TIAK - Kantar Media (Turkey) / TNS Emor (Estonia) / TNS Gallup (Norway) / TNS Gallup TV Meter (Denmark) / TNS Central Asia (Kazakhstan) / TNS LT (Lithuania) / TNS Latvia (Latvia) / TNS Russia (Russia) / TV MR GE - Nielsen Television Audience Measurement (Georgia) / TV MR MLD -Nielsen Television Audience Measurement (Moldova) / Tview (United Arab Emirates) / Video Research Ltd (Japan)





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