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NCIS: New Orleans ratings soar with February 23 episode

By Brittany Frederick

"Waiting for Monroe" - The team must track down a mysterious female assassin responsible for murders in Athens, Rome and London. Also, Wade's son tries to convince her to allow him to go on a police ride along for an article he's writing for his school paper on a Youth Outreach Program at the NOPD, on "NCIS: NEW ORLEANS" Sunday, Feb. 23 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured L-R: Scott Bakula as Special Agent Dwayne Pride, Ellen Adair as Karla Monroe, and Necar Zadegan as Special Agent Hannah Khoury Photo: Sam Lothridge/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"Waiting for Monroe" - The team must track down a mysterious female assassin responsible for murders in Athens, Rome and London. Also, Wade's son tries to convince her to allow him to go on a police ride along for an article he's writing for his school paper on a Youth Outreach Program at the NOPD, on "NCIS: NEW ORLEANS" Sunday, Feb. 23 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured L-R: Scott Bakula as Special Agent Dwayne Pride, Ellen Adair as Karla Monroe, and Necar Zadegan as Special Agent Hannah Khoury Photo: Sam Lothridge/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved /
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NCIS: New Orleans ratings grew significantly on Sunday with Waiting For Monroe. Check out the live ratings for NCIS: New Orleans season 6, episode 12.

When NCIS: New Orleans moved to Sunday nights, it seemed like a bad omen for the CBS series. But the latest NCIS: New Orleans ratings are a very good sign for fans.

The latest episode, “Waiting For Monroe,” gave the long-running show an international feel as the team chased down a globe-trotting assassin. It also had a much larger live audience than the one the week before.

5.56 million people watched the episode live, significantly up from the prior Sunday’s audience of 5.20 million (+0.36, or an additional 360,000).

New Orleans just missed out on the Top 5 in total viewers for the second week in a row. It stayed in sixth place out of the 17 programs that aired on broadcast TV on Feb. 23.

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The Top 5 consisted of 60 Minutes, American Idol, America’s Funniest Home Videos, sister series NCIS: Los Angeles and God Friended Me, in that order. For those keeping score, that means four of the six most-watched shows on Sunday were on CBS.

While NCIS: New Orleans wasn’t able to gain ground in the overall rankings, the fact that it picked up more than 300,000 extra viewers week-to-week is still very encouraging.

It’s more remarkable when you consider that “Waiting For Monroe” wasn’t any kind of special episode—no new cast members were introduced, no one left the show, there was no massive series-changing plot twist. It was a pretty standard episode and so if more people were tuned in this week, the potential is there to continue growing that audience next week and beyond.

NCIS: New Orleans season 6 also continues to win its time slot. ABC brought back The Rookie on Feb. 13, and that show also had a banner week, but its 4.89 million viewers was still more than a half-million away from what Pride and company pulled in.

FOX and The CW went to local news in the 10 p.m. hour, while NBC had a new Good Girls that was far behind with just 1.81 million people tuned in live. So even if the third NCIS series is not coming out on top Sundays, it clearly controls its new time slot—and being sixth out of 17 isn’t the end of the world either.

That doesn’t mean the show is out of the woods yet, because ideally it would be closer to the size of the audience that NCIS: Los Angeles brings in at least. But if it can continue to make gains in the live viewership the way it did this Sunday, Season 7 shouldn’t be a difficult decision.

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NCIS: New Orleans airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

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