Thursday TV Ratings: CBS’ Just-Canceled ‘Tommy’ Wins Big With Finale

Jim Halterman May 8, 2020, 12:30 pm

Edie Falco in Tommy — Patrick Harbron/CBS

A quiz show revival ruled on Thursday night in primetime broadcast television as ABC’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? continued to perform well in an episode featuring actress Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek) and comedian/actor Hannibal Buress, dominated the night in the 18-49 demographic with a 0.9 rating.

With total viewers, a rerun of CBS’s Young Sheldon edged out the Jimmy Kimmel quiz show with 6.50 million viewers (Millionaire nabbed 6.20 million so it was close).

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In the 9 o’clock hour, ABC’s Station 19 was tops in both the 18-49 demo and total viewers but in the 10 o’clock hour, the just-canceled CBS procedural Tommy was easily the leader in total viewers and tied with the penultimate episode of ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder, both grabbing a 0.5 rating.

Here’s the breakdown for Thursday, May 7, 2020 (numbers are fast-affiliate based):

Time	Show	Adults 18-49 Rating	Total Viewers (millions)
8 p.m.	Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (ABC)	0.9	6.20
	Young Sheldon – R (CBS)	0.7	6.50
	Council of Dads (NBC)	0.4	3.02
	Celebrity Watch Party (Fox)	0.4	1.78
	Katy Keene (CW)	0.1	471,000
8:30 p.m.	Man with a Plan (CBS)	0.7	6.08
9:00 p.m.	Station 19 (ABC)	0.8	5.52
	Mom – R (CBS)	0.6	5.19
	Blindspot (NBC)	0.3	2.14
	Mental Samurai – R (Fox)	0.3	1.48
	In The Dark (CW)	0.1	340,000
9:30 p.m.	Broke (CBS)	0.6	4.79
10 p.m.	Tommy (CBS)	0.5	5.37
	How to Get Away With Murder (ABC)	0.5	2.77
	Law & Order: SVU – R (NBC)	0.3	2.26