'Life in Pieces' Darren Michaels/CBS
The CBS comedy grows as many other broadcast series suffer drops against the NFL and the MLB.
Against some sizable sports competition on cable (the Giants-Eagles game on ESPN's Monday Night Football and an enduringly strong MLB postseason on Fox Sports 1), Monday finally saw some movement for broadcast series after a few weeks of stability.
Reaping the biggest growth of the night was CBS comedy Life in Pieces. After a reasonably steady Big Bang Theory, which averaged a 3.7 rating among adults 18-49, the comedy jumped three-tenths of a point from the previous episode for its strongest showing (a 2.1 rating among adults 18-49) since the premiere. Scorpion, steady with a 1.8 rating among adults 18-49, led into a boosted NCIS: LA — up two-tenths of a point to a 1.3 rating in the key demo.
NBC won the night, though it did so with some drops. The Voice, shedding three-tenths of a point, clocked a 3.0 rating among adults 18-49. With that slightly softer lead-in, Blindspot finally took a hit after weeks of same-day stamina. The drama lost four-tenths of a point in the key demo for a 2.1 rating with 18-49-ers.
Dancing With the Stars, averaging a 1.9 rating among adults 18-49, improved two-tenths of a point before a flat episode of Castle (1.1 adults) on ABC.
Gotham dropped two-tenths of a point on Fox, its first noticeable fall since the premiere, for an average 1.3 rating among adults 18-49. Minority Report continued to limp along with just a 0.6 rating in the demo.
The CW's Monday scores are tentative, and subject to downward adjustment thanks to NFL preemptions in the New York market, but both Crazy Ex Girlfriend (0.4 adults) and Jane the Virgin (0.5 adults) are thus far in just slightly better shape than they were with last week's season premieres.
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