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Despite CBS programming chiefs on Thursday touting strides with diversity in front of and behind the camera of their scripted series, they continued to come under fire by the TCA press corps for mismanaging inclusivity on the network’s reality programs like Big Brother and Survivor.  One press member today…

The season finale of CBS' Survivor: Edge of Extinction (1.5 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 7.21 million viewers) came in tops in the demo on Wednesday night. NBC's Chicago Fire (1.0, 7.86M) ranked No. 1 in total viewers, followed closely by Chicago Med (1.1, 7.86M). In the demo, Survivor inched up a tenth…

ABC's Modern Family (1.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 4.37 million viewers) clocked its lowest season finale ratings Wednesday, falling three tenths in the demo compared with last season’s wrapper. In its penultimate season closer, Modern Family came in flat week to week, matching the previous week's series…

NBC's broadcast of the Billboard Music Awards (2.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 7.96 million viewers) hit a franchise low in the 18-49 age bracket Wednesday night, while easily besting all primetime competitors with the network's top-rated in-season Wednesday in the demo – excluding Olympics – since…

CBS' Survivor: Edge of Extinction (1.4 rating in adults 18-49, 7.36M viewers) was Wednesday's highest-rated show in the demo, besting Fox's Empire (1.1, 3.8M) at 8 PM. The Jamal-wedding episode of Empire held steady at its series demo low for a fourth time in five weeks. Empire's showing in the key age bracket for…

CBS' Survivor: Edge of Extinction (1.5 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 7.83 million viewers) continued to grow, topping Wednesday in all metrics and hitting a season high in total viewers. The network’s Season 31 launch of The Amazing Race (1.2, 7.83M) took 9 PM across the board, climbing 50% versus Million Dol…

Season 31 of The Amazing Race will leave the starting line more than a month earlier than scheduled. CBS said today that the new iteration will premiere at 9 PM Wednesday, April 17; it had been set for May 22. With that move, the network has banished LeBron James’ Million Dollar Mile from its Wednesday timeslot to…

CBS’ Survivor: Edge of Extinction (1.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic, 7.31 million viewers) handily won Wednesday in the key ratings demo for a fourth week, despite slight slippage week to week. Meanwhile, NBC's Chicago dramas dominated primetime in total viewers, with 9 PM’s Chicago Fire (1.1, 8.10M) attracting the…

The fifth and final season of the CW’s Jane the Virgin (0.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 800,000 viewers), which resolved the big Michael finale cliffhanger, premiered Wednesday to solid numbers on a mixed night that also saw the debut of CBS’ competition series Million Dollar Mile (1.0, 4.07M) and the…

CBS' special two-hour Survivor: Edge of Extinction (1.3 demo rating, 7.03 million viewers) won its 8-10 PM time slot Wednesday night and was No. 1 for the night in both metrics, though it tied a series low for a regular episode in the demo. The reality veteran likely got dinged by NBC's two-hour The Voice recap…

UPDATED with more numbers: The return of Fox’s Empire from its winter hiatus Wednesday took a tumble from its fall finale, drawing 4.4 million total viewers and a 1.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, the second-lowest numbers to date for the hip-hop drama. It still was the night’s second highest-rated show in…

In the land of repeats, the 37th Survivor finale was king Wednesday night. Survivor (1.5 rating in the 18-49 demo, 7.62 million viewers) was primetime’s top program, and also the night’s only original program among CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox and CW. The CBS reality series came in 4% higher in viewers and 7% higher in the demo…