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FBI ratings for Nov. 12: Season 2 gets a boost back to normal

By Brittany Frederick

"Undisclosed" -- When a board member of a soon-to-be-public medical tech company is murdered, the team tries to find out who had the most to gain from his death. Also, OA is conflicted when pressure to help a family member is at odds with his commitment to tell the truth, on FBI, Tuesday, Nov. 12 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured (L-R) Ebonée Noel as Kristen Chazal, John Boyd as Stuart Scola, and Alana De La Garz as Isobel Castille Photo: Michael Parmelee/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"Undisclosed" -- When a board member of a soon-to-be-public medical tech company is murdered, the team tries to find out who had the most to gain from his death. Also, OA is conflicted when pressure to help a family member is at odds with his commitment to tell the truth, on FBI, Tuesday, Nov. 12 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured (L-R) Ebonée Noel as Kristen Chazal, John Boyd as Stuart Scola, and Alana De La Garz as Isobel Castille Photo: Michael Parmelee/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved /
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FBI ratings returned to normal on Nov. 12, making up for Season 2’s previous drop and then some. See the latest FBI numbers.

FBI ratings are back on their way up. After the CBS drama saw a bit of a decrease last week as it came off a break, Tuesday’s numbers proved that was just a one-week fumble.

This week’s installment “Undisclosed” finished with 8.85 million people watching live. That picked up from the prior mark of 8.54 (+0.31, or 310,000).

That’s not as big a lift as its lead-in NCIS, which scored an extra three-quarters of a million eyes, but is on par with the Dick Wolf drama’s mark two weeks ago of 8.82. In fact, it’s just a smidgen better.

The episode had the second largest audience among the 15 shows that aired on broadcast TV on Tuesday night, topped only by the new NCIS Season 17 episode that preceded it.

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FBI continues to have a pretty decent hold on the 9 p.m. time slot. NBC‘s This Is Us is a critical darling, but it still has a smaller live audience than the CBS crime drama; this week it had 7.04 million eyes, making it more than 1.5 million people behind.

Nothing else at 9 p.m. is even getting to the 3 million mark.

That’s good news, because it proves that FBI Season 2 is just as successful as the first season, and CBS definitely made the right move in expanding it into a franchise. Almost more importantly, the network deserves props for keeping the show in its same time slot, therefore ensuring the audience could easily come back to it this fall.

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Within the key demographic of adults 18-49, “Undisclosed” pulled in a healthy 0.7. That kept the show inside the Top 5, even though it was down 0.1 from last week.

It tied with NBC’s medical drama New Amsterdam and the final season of FOX‘s Empire in that respect. The latter is a direct competitor, so that’s worth keeping an eye on; fans will want those key demo eyeballs going to their show and not the FOX series.

FBI ratings may be stuck there, though, because the shows above it were coming in with marks of 1.0 and higher—meaning it’s going to have to gain a 0.3 share to move up, and most shows never see their demo score fluctuate by more than 0.1 week-to-week.

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FBI Season 2 continues next Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

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