Fox's Empire (1.8 demo rating, 5.80 million viewers) ruled 8 PM in the demo Wednesday night. And while ticking up in total viewers week to week, the music drama ceded that derby to Survivor: Ghost Island (1.5, 7.92M). CBS’s competition series remained Wednesday’s most-watched program and topped primetime for a seventh…

Empire (1.7 demo rating, 5.52 million viewers) claimed Wednesday’s top spot in the key adults 18-49 demographic in primetime, down 29% compared to its second spring telecast last year. Week 2 of ABC's new 8:30 PM comedy Alex, Inc. (0.9, 3.83M) retained a shaky 69% of its The Goldbergs (1.3, 5.38M) lead-in, down from…

Returns of Empire and Star to Fox's primetime lineup put Fox in first place on Wednesday night in the key demo. Empire (2.0 demo rating, 6.14 million viewers) returned to the schedule with a demo rating up 5% compared to its fall finale (1.9 on Dec. 13) but 29% below its March 22, 2017 spring return episode's 2.8. Empi…

Fox's 9-1-1 season finale (1.7 demo rating, 6.581 million viewers) ticked up by 1/10th of a rating point, to tie CBS’s Survivor: Ghost Island (1.7, 8.52M) as the top show of the night in the demo for the first time in the four Wednesdays they've both been on the schedule. Survivor: Ghost Island was Wednesday’s No. 1…

CBS’ Survivor: Ghost Island remained the top program in total viewers and in the demographic on the first Wednesday of Daylight Saving Time, which tends to hardest hit the 8 PM hour. Survivor’s 1.7 demo rating and 8.23 million total viewers kept it in the Wednesday primetime top spot for a third consecutive week…

Armed with launch of Survivor: Ghost Island, CBS scuttled NBC’s 20-night demo winning streak that included 18 consecutive nights of Winter Olympics and the two nights that followed. CBS’s Survivor: Ghost Island launch topped Wednesday primetime in viewers and key demos, winning its 2-hour block in viewers by 45% over…