Tuesday TV Ratings: ‘NCIS’ Leads in Viewers, Prince Grammy Special Strong in Key Demo

Jim Halterman April 22, 2020, 12:00 pm

Common at the Prince Grammy Tribute — Monty Brinton/CBS

*Let's Go Crazy: The Grammys Salute to Prince*

On a rerun-heavy Tuesday night in primetime television, a re-airing of an NCIS episode dominated the night in total viewers with 7.66 million. But in the 18-49 demo, the CBS two-hour special, Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammys Salute to Prince, with stars like Common (above) appearing, grabbed the most eyeballs with a 1.0 rating.

The series finale of Fox’s Empire — its season cut short due to production shutdowns — performed well in the 18-49 demo with a 0.8 rating though total viewers fell below 3 million viewers.

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Here’s the breakdown for Tuesday, April 21, 2020 (numbers are fast-affiliate based):

Time	Show	Adults 18-49 rating	Total Viewers (millions)
8 p.m.	Ellen’s Game of Games – R (NBC)	0.8	4.25
	NCIS – R (CBS)	0.7	7.66
	The Conners – R(ABC)	0.6	3.80
	The Masked Singer – R (Fox)	0.5	2.66
	The Flash (CW)	0.4	1.11
8:30 p.m.	Bless This Mess – R (ABC)	0.4	2.47
9 p.m.	Let’s Go Crazy – The Grammys Salute to Prince (CBS)	1.0	6.49
	Empire – F (Fox)	0.8	2.94
	Ellen’s Game of Games – R (NBC)	0.7	3.68
	mixed-ish – R (ABC)	0.4	1.93
	DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (CW)	0.2	665,000
9:30 p.m.	black-ish – R (ABC)	0.3	1.73
10 p.m.	New Amsterdam – R (NBC)	0.4	2.26
	For Life (ABC)	0.4	2.17