On Thursday, Young Sheldon and super producer Chuck Lorre celebrated a major milestone with the show’s 100th episode. The latest episode of the Big Bang spinoff won the night’s biggest audience, but victory would have tasted even sweeter if the comedy hadn’t been in a four-way demo rating tie with three other titles.
According to Fast Affiliates, Young Sheldon, Station 19, Ghosts, and Grey’s Anatomy all received a 0.5 rating in the 18-49 demo. But Sheldon won the evening’s audience of 6.59 million viewers. CBS’ top show of the night, Young Sheldon, won the 9 p.m. hour, tied with Station 19 (0.5, 4.33M). Together they defeated a rerun of Law & Order on NBC, MasterChef Junior (.4, 1.88m) and Walker (.1, .98m).
In the hour that followed, Ghosts (0.5, 6.03m) and Grey’s Anatomy (0.5, 3.86m) were the third and fourth titles battling for the highest demo of the night. They beat new episodes of Call Me Kat (0.3, 1.48M) and Legacies (0.1, 0.42M). At 21:30 How We Roll made its debut (0.3, 4.10M). Based on the life of pro bowler Tom Smallwood, How We Roll stars Pete Holmes as Tom, a stoic Midwestern husband and father who gets fired from an auto assembly line and makes the extraordinary decision to provide for his family by helping his… Dream of becoming a professional bowler follows.
The latest CBS newcomer marked the premiere of the second-most-watched comedy series of the 2021-2022 season in Fast Affiliates, following the debut of Ghosts (0.5, 5.34m) in October. In the same half hour was Welcome To Flatch (0.2, 0.83m).
As if there weren’t enough ties throughout the evening, there was another in the last hour of Thursday primetime between Bull (0.3, 4.02m), Big Sky (0.3, 2.46m and ) and a repeat of Law & Order: Organized Crime (0.3, 1.98 million).
