Within the broadcast rankings recreation for the 2024-2025 TV season (not counting sports activities viewership, in fact), CBS reigned supreme with a median of 9.1 million viewers throughout linear and streaming views, and NBC got here in second with 7.2 million. ABC was at a detailed third with 6.9 million, and Fox adopted at 4.3 million.
ABC was, nonetheless, in second place when it got here to the most-watched primetime sequence on broadcast, with six of the highest 20 most-watched sequence (trailing CBS’s whopping 11). The highest reveals for the community’s primetime viewership on broadcast and streaming (with a 35-day multi-platform window), in keeping with Nielsen, had been: Excessive Potential, tied for second with CBS’s Matlock (at 16.1 million common viewers); Will Trent in sixth (11.6 million), 9-1-1 in ninth (11.2 million); Shifting Gears in tenth (11.1 million), The Rookie in eleventh (10.7 million), and Abbott Elementary closing out the highest 20 (8.9 million). ABC revealed that Excessive Potential managed to change into the community’s greatest performer on streaming, based mostly on seven-day viewership on Disney+ and Hulu, whereas 9-1-1‘s funeral episode airing Could 1 introduced in 9.18 million viewers, its greatest since November 2024.
Of the season’s choices, just one has been canceled by ABC thus far: The Conners, which concluded its sequence run with its Season 7 finale in April and a season common of three.089 million. Nonetheless on the bubble for the community is Physician Odyssey, the brand new Ryan Murphy-produced medical soap-drama that concluded in mid-Could with a median (thus far) viewership of three.050 million for the season. The sequence bested community flagship sequence Gray’s Anatomy, which earned a 2.2 million common viewers per episode all through Season 21 — however was formally renewed by the community — in its new timeslot of 10/9c.
The unscripted facet of issues remained sturdy for ABC within the 2024-2025 season as properly, with American Idol main the pack (4.932 million on Sundays, 4.190 on Mondays). The community touted that the season finale was the present’s most-watched telecast in two years with 6.51 million complete viewers.
Dancing With the Stars was simply behind it (4.877 million), adopted by America’s Funniest Dwelling Movies (3.854 million), The Golden Bachelorette (2.815 million), Shark Tank (2.811 million), Superstar Wheel of Fortune (2.766 million), Jeopardy! Masters (2.65 million), The Bachelor (2.606 million), and 20/20 (2.450 million).