TV ratings Thursday, May 16, 2024

Zoe Perry and Ian Armitage in the Young Sheldcon series finale

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The last episodes of Young Sheldon It attracted a large CBS crowd.

The comedy ended its seven-season run Thursday night with 9.32 million viewers for its series finale, according to final same-day Nielsen ratings (which don’t include the live broadcast). This is the largest same-day audience for the show in four years – since the end of Season 3 on April 30, 2020.

Young Sheldon It ended with two episodes, with the first episode drawing nearly as many viewers (9.15 million) at 8pm ET/PT as the finale at 8:30pm. The episodes rank second and third in same-day viewers among all scripted series this season, behind only the post-Super Bowl premiere. Tracker. (Both episodes were revised from preliminary Nielsen numbers, which were 8.82 million viewers for the 8 p.m. episode and 8.95 million viewers for the finale.)

Sheldon It also scored the top two shows of the season among adults 18-49, posting a 0.71 rating (937,000 viewers in the demographic) for the first episode and a 0.76 (about 1.01 million viewers) for the finale.

Young Sheldon It entered Thursday with an average of 7.03 million same-day viewers this season, making it the network’s most-watched comedy for the fifth straight season. Thursday’s episodes finished 30 percent and 32 percent higher than the same-day average.

CBS has a continuous 19-year run of the season’s most-watched comedy on the airwaves. The streak began with the final season of Everyone loves Raymond In 2004-05 he continued with Two and a half men And Young SheldonAdvance payment, The big bang theory. The last three were all produced by Chuck Lorre.

The end for So Todd helped me (4.4 million viewers) on CBS was the best show in total viewers after Young Sheldon, while ABC 911 It was best among adults 18-49 with a 0.44 rating (580,000 viewers).

May 17, 1:25 p.m Updated with final same-day ratings numbers as of Thursday.