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[02/14/24 - 01:45 PM]
CBS' Tuesday "FBI" Block Crushes Competition with Double-Digit Audience Growth Over Last Year's Premiere
The block was up +10% from its year ago Tuesday premieres and up +14% from the season finales.
[via press release from CBS]

CBS' TUESDAY "FBI" BLOCK CRUSHES COMPETITION WITH DOUBLE-DIGIT AUDIENCE GROWTH OVER LAST YEAR'S PREMIERE

Streaming Soars vs. Year Ago on Paramount+ and CBS Digital Platforms

CBS was the #1 network for the night with 6.19 million viewers on its premiere Tuesday. The FBI, FBI: INTERNATIONAL and FBI: MOST WANTED block was +10% from its year ago Tuesday premieres and up +14% from the season finales. CBS topped second place ABC by +3.70 million, third place FOX by +4.21 million and fourth place NBC by +4.24 million viewers (more than 3x).

FBI (8:00 PM)
· Averaged 7.57 million viewers
· Up +16% from the year ago premiere
· Up +20% from the finale
· Up +11% from the 2023/24 season average
· FBI had a higher viewer average last night than any episode last season

FBI INTERNATIONAL (9:00 PM)
· Averaged 5.79 million viewers
· Up +9% from its year ago premiere
· Up +10% from the finale
· Up +7% from its year ago average

FBI: MOST WANTED (10:00 PM)
· Averaged 5.21 million viewers
· Up +2% from its year ago debut
· Up +11% from the finale
· Up+6% from its season average

STREAMING (Paramount+/CBS.com/CBS app)
· FBI up +37%*
· FBI: INTERNATIONAL up +44%*
· FBI: MOST WANTED up +45%*

*from their year ago premieres.

SOCIAL

CBS' Tuesday primetime premieres drove 114 million potential social impressions* last night
· FBI amassed 94 million*
· FBI: INTERNATIONAL drove 10 million*
· FBI: MOST WANTED garnered 9.4 million*

*Potential Impressions are the estimated number of people who might have viewed posts related to this topic. NetBase calculates potential impressions based on followers/fans of original posts and followers/fans of engagements.

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LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT

Monday night's (Feb. 12) episode featuring guests John Oliver and Killer Mike delivered 2.288 million viewers, the highest L+SD average for any Monday night in over a year (2.421m on Jan. 23.)

THE TALK

The post-Super Bowl episode of THE TALK on Monday, Feb. 12 earned 1.66 million viewers and was its second most-watched show of the season. It was THE TALK's best performance in Total Viewers since Tuesday, Jan. 16. Guests were Billy Gardell and Max Greenfield.

For the Super Bowl week of Feb. 5 shows, THE TALK earned 1.37 million viewers, its best week since the week of Jan. 15, and was up +7% from last week.





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