CBS won Tuesday night as a repeat of NCIS narrowly defeated NBC’s America’s Got Talent for the title of the evening’s most-watched program. The only real ratings surprise came at 10 p.m., when ABC’s Primetime: Family Secrets took the hour by growing 5 million viewers week-to-week (and 189 percent in adults 18-49) with a program that revolved around Michael Jackson’s children and featured a rarely seen interview with Debbie Rowe. It’s the highest-rated installment in the three-year-old news series’ history.
| Time | Show | Viewers (in millions) |
|---|---|---|
| 8 p.m. | NCIS (CBS) Great American Road Trip (NBC) The Superstars (ABC) Movie: Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (Fox) 90210 (The CW) |
10.8 (repeat) 4.7 4.2 2.2 (repeat) 1.0 (repeat) |
| 9 p.m. | America’s Got Talent (NBC) The Mentalist (CBS) 20/20: Remembering Michael Jackson Hitched or Ditched (The CW) |
10.4 9.1 (repeat) 5.7 1.1 (repeat) |
| 10 p.m. | Primetime: Family Secrets (ABC) Dateline NBC (NBC) 48 Hours Mystery (CBS) |
8.6 6.3 5.5 |
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Henning Fog recaps America’s Got Talent
Loved the 20/20 memorial show for Michael Jackson featuring revealing interviews with Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight. So shocked to see how well the Primetime collection of shows do in the ratings each week. I wonder when ABC is bringing back the biggest one: Primetime: What Would You Do?
Because Gibbs is such a bad @ss, he owned the night.