Ratings Watch: Good Week for The Voice; CSI: Cyber Opens Strong

The Live+3 ratings for the week ending March 8 (including three days of DVR and video on demand use) are in, and The Big Bang Theory was tops with viewers for a second week in a row.
Also: The Voice posted its most-watched Tuesday installment ever, beating the finale episode on June 18, 2013 (16.9 million in Live+3). CBS’ The Odd Couple remake, which the network is now touting as “television’s number one new comedy,” improved in its third week among viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 vs. the prior week.
Mom, which just promoted Jamie Pressly to series regular (for next season) won its timeslot and was up 16% from last week. And the premiere of the new CSI spinoff CSI: Cyberwon its time slot and also improved on the Feb. 11 finale of the show previously in its slot, Stalker (10 million viewers in L+3).
Here is the weekly total viewer ranker for the week of March 2-8, 2015.
RANK |
SHOW & NETWORK |
LIVE+3 |
WATCHED |
1 |
The Big Bang Theory CBS |
22.3 |
18.2 |
2 |
The Walking Dead AMC |
19.1 |
14.5 |
3 |
Empire Fox |
19 |
14.3 |
4 |
The Voice (Tuesday) NBC |
17.3 |
15.5 |
5 |
The Voice (Monday) NBC |
16.6 |
14.7 |
6 |
Blue Bloods CBS |
14.6 |
11 |
7 |
CSI: Cyber CBS |
13.8 |
10.5 |
8 |
Criminal Minds CBS |
13.7 |
10.4 |
9 |
The Odd Couple CBS |
13.6 |
12.4 |
10 |
Modern Family ABC |
13.5 |
9.6 |
11 |
Scandal ABC |
12.8 |
9.6 |
12 |
The Blacklist NBC |
12.6 |
8.2 |
13 |
Madam Secretary CBS |
12.5 |
10.8 |
14 |
Hawaii Five-0 CBS |
12 |
9.5 |
16 |
Survivor CBS |
11.8 |
9.8 |
17 |
Mom CBS |
11.4 |
9.7 |
18 |
The Big Bang Theory (9pm) CBS NCIS CBS |
11.2 |
10.5 |
20 |
Elementary CBS |
11.1 |
7.7 |
21 |
Mike & Molly CBS |
11 |
9.6 |
22 |
American Crime ABC |
10.9 |
8.4 |
23 |
The Good Wife CBS |
10.8 |
9.1 |
25 |
American Idol (Wednesday) Fox |
10.6 |
8.9 |
Total viewers; in millions |
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