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NCIS ratings for Oct. 15: Series holds on to Tuesday’s top spot

By Brittany Frederick

"Someone Else's Shoes" -- The NCIS team links a bizarre crime scene at Arlington National Cemetery to a string of attacks on homeless veterans. Also, Vance orders McGee, Bishop and Torres to complete hours of evidence garage cleanup duty for withholding information, on NCIS, Tuesday, Oct. 15 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured: Brent Bailey as Kyle Freeman, Anastasia Baranova as Melissa Canon. Mark Harmon as NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Sean Murray as NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee. Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"Someone Else's Shoes" -- The NCIS team links a bizarre crime scene at Arlington National Cemetery to a string of attacks on homeless veterans. Also, Vance orders McGee, Bishop and Torres to complete hours of evidence garage cleanup duty for withholding information, on NCIS, Tuesday, Oct. 15 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured: Brent Bailey as Kyle Freeman, Anastasia Baranova as Melissa Canon. Mark Harmon as NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Sean Murray as NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee. Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved /
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NCIS ratings were down on Oct. 15, but Season 17, Episode 4 still managed to defeat its competition. See the latest NCIS numbers.

While NCIS saw some ratings erosion this week, the CBS series remained on top of Tuesday’s TV ratings, and it’s still not even close.

The latest episode “Someone Else’s Shoes” sent the team to Arlington National Cemetery and is also notable for featuring a real military veteran amongst its guest cast.

It recorded 10.61 million viewers who watched live. That’s a decrease from the previous episode’s 10.98 (down 0.37, which amounts to 370,000 viewers).

But even though that’s a decent dip in numbers. NCIS fans have nothing to worry about.

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The episode was still the most-watched broadcast TV program on Tuesday evening; it’s held that distinction for all four weeks of the 2018-2019 TV season so far. And based on the most recent ratings numbers, it’s hard to imagine any other show catching it anytime soon.

None of the 14 other programs that aired on broadcast TV this Tuesday even reached the 9 million dollar mark; the closest was NCIS‘s own lead-in, the Dick Wolf series FBI, which hit 8.7 million.

The top-rated show on another network was NBC‘s singing competition The Voice, which brought in 7.86 million live viewers. That’s almost 3 million less people tuned in!

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The one area where NCIS ratings get more interesting is if you zero in on the viewers aged 18-49, which is the primary demographic that advertisers (and therefore networks) look at.

In that respect, the show was tied for third place with ABC‘s sitcom The Conners. It was beaten by The Voice and NBC’s critically acclaimed drama This Is Us.

So while it has the majority of total viewers, at least a significant portion of that audience is older than the key demographic. Third place is still nothing to look down on, though; it still means that this Tuesday’s episode attracted a fair amount of viewers 18-49. There’s room to improve within that demographic, but these numbers and the show’s performance overall this season are proof that it’s not going anywhere any time soon.

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NCIS season 17 continues next Tuesday, Oct. 22 at 8 p.m. on CBS. Can the series continue to dominate Tuesday nights? Give us your thoughts on this ratings news in the comments.

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