From Touchdowns to Time Slot Trouble: NBC’s 2024-25 Ratings Winners and Losers

Now that your broadcast-TV favorites are on holiday break, TVLine is looking at how each network’s shows are stacking up thus far in the 2024-25 TV season. Having already crunched the numbers for ABC, CBS, Fox and even The CW, today we close things out with NBC.

Listed below is the average TOTAL AUDIENCE for each NBC series (including Live+7 delayed playback). Alongside that is the DEMO RATING (Adults 18-49) for each program, as well as any noteworthy PERFORMANCE NOTES.

Each program’s RANK represents how it is faring in total audience compared to other shows on NBC.

Listed below is the average TOTAL AUDIENCE for each NBC series (including Live+7 delayed playback). Alongside that is the DEMO RATING (Adults 18-49) for each program, as well as any noteworthy PERFORMANCE NOTES.

Each program’s RANK represents how it is faring in total audience compared to other shows on NBC.

NBC
(FALL 2024)
TOTAL VIEWERS
DEMO RATING
PERFORMANCE NOTES

1
Sunday Night Football
18.6 million
4.8
TV’s most-watched program; audience down just 6% YOY, demo is steady

2
Chicago Fire
7.8 million
0.61
NBC’s #1-rated non-sports program; broadcast’s #4-rated drama; audience -8% vs. last season

3
Chicago Med
7.4 million
0.57
Smallest audience gap with Fire in four seasons!

4
Chicago P.D.
6.9 million
0.60
Audience -11% vs. last season, and retention out of Fire is down 2%

5
The Voice (Monday)
6.5 million
0.54
TV’s most-watched reality program; numbers up vs. 2023-24 season

6
The Voice (Tuesday)
5.8 million
0.48

7
Law & Order: SVU
5.6 million
0.65
Broadcast’s #2-rated drama (TIE); audience -18% vs. last season

8
Brilliant Minds
4.94 million
0.38
Up 29% in audience/steady in demo vs. The Voice‘s spring lead-out (Deal or No Deal Island)

9
The Irrational
4.87 million
0.39
Audience down 17% on new night, but +9% vs. time slot predecessor Found

10
Law & Order
4.83 million
0.45
Audience down 16% vs last season

11
Happy’s Place
4.7 million
0.40
Doubled time slot predecessor Lopez vs. Lopez‘s S2 audience, also improved on demo

12
Found
3.9 million
0.41
Audience down 13% on new night; numbers -23% and -33% from time slot predecessor Organized Crime

13
St. Denis Medical
3.6 million
0.44
Numbers on par with Night Court Season 2 in Tuesday lead-off spot

14
B1G Saturday Night Football
3.3 million
0.70

15
Dateline NBC
3.2 million
0.36
Down just a tick in viewers

16
Night Court
2.9 million
0.33
Audience -24% in later slot; numbers also down from time slot predecessor Extended Family

17
Lopez vs. Lopez
2.3 million
0.26
Numbers rock-steady vs. Season 2, and yet: NBC’s least-watched, lowest-rated program

‘Chicago Fire,’ ‘Sunday Night Football’ and ‘Brilliant Minds’Courtesy of NBC

THE TVLINE BOTTOM LINE: Sunday Night Football of course remains the crown jewel in the ratings game, while The Voice continues to sing as TV’s most-watched reality program. #OneChicago adds up to three of network-TV’s Top 10 most-watched and top-rated dramas, a feat only bested by CBS. Among NBC’s schedule changes, Brilliant Minds, The Irrational and Happy’s Place all improved their time slots, whereas the Organized Crime-replacing Found… did not. In fact, CBS’ robust Matlock/Elsbeth combo, coupled with ABC’s own Doctor Odyssey/Grey’s Anatomy upgrade, appears to be costing viewers for both Found and its lead-in SVU. Lastly, no one can be laughing at that Night Court decline — time to return it to Tuesday’s lead-off spot?