World Collection Recreation 1 Dominates Demos, Holds Regular From Final Yr – Deadline

World Collection Recreation 1 is within the books, a 6-5 win for the Philadelphia Phillies over the Houston Astros on Friday night time. Recreation 2 is tonight, beginning at 5 PM Pacific time.

Fox’s broadcast drew 9.7 million complete viewers and a 2.2 demo ranking. That’s on par with final 12 months’s Braves/Astros Recreation 1, which came about on a Tuesday night time.

These not watching baseball turned to some outdated favorites. At CBS, the crime drama lineup drew an 0.4 throughout the board for SWAT, Hearth Nation and Blue Bloods, the primary two down in complete viewers however evidently hanging powerful with its core viewers.

At ABC, Matthew Perry’s confessional interview with Diane Sawyer drew an 0.4, as the previous Mates star unburdened himself on his drug and alcohol struggles. That was adopted by newsmag 20/20, which scored an 0.3 for its look into the homicide of an Arkansas State Senator.

NBC had back-to-back new episodes of the Capital One Faculty Bowl quiz present, each coming in with an 0.2, which led to an 0.2 for newsmag Dateline, which took a take a look at a murder-for-hire plot.

The CW’s providing of Penn & Teller: Idiot Us had an 0.1 and led in to back-to-back episodes of Whose Line Is It Anyway? The primary half-hour was a brand new episode and had an 0.1, adopted by a repeat.