2022-23 Broadcast TV Season Program Rankings: NFL Coverage Wins The Day, ‘NCIS’ Leads Scripted Programming
deadline.comThe 2022-23 broadcast television season has officially concluded with NBC and CBS back at the top of the Nielsen charts. NBC’s football coverage stole the show, but among scripted programming NCIS was the clear winner, though the One Chicago franchise held strong as well.
Broadcast comedies and dramas dominated the list of most watched scripted series on ad-supported linear networks this past season with one major exception, Paramount Network’s Yellowstone, which topped them all with 11.5M viewers.
As Deadline reported last month, CBS was primetime’s most-watched broadcast network this season with an average of 5.96M viewers per weeknight, which is slightly down from last year when the network cracked 6M viewers, per Nielsen’s most current data.
This is the 15th consecutive year that CBS has been first in viewers, so this year’s victory shouldn’t be too surprising. Once again, both staple series and newcomers contributed to CBS’ audience victory, including NCIS, which held onto its crown as the most-watched scripted series of the television season with 9.86M viewers.
Read more on deadline.com