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NCIS: New Orleans ratings crack Top 5 with March 1 episode

By Brittany Frederick

"The Root of All Evil" - The team investigates the murder of a JAG Captain who was killed in his home and discovered by his daughter, the only heir to his large estate. Also, Sebastian is intimidated when he is put in charge of a team on his first day of REACT training, on "NCIS: NEW ORLEANS" Sunday, March 1 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured L-R: Necar Zadegan as Special Agent Hannah Khoury, Scott Bakula as Special Agent Dwayne Pride, and Chelsea Gilligan as Selina Garrett Photo: Sam Lothridge/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"The Root of All Evil" - The team investigates the murder of a JAG Captain who was killed in his home and discovered by his daughter, the only heir to his large estate. Also, Sebastian is intimidated when he is put in charge of a team on his first day of REACT training, on "NCIS: NEW ORLEANS" Sunday, March 1 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured L-R: Necar Zadegan as Special Agent Hannah Khoury, Scott Bakula as Special Agent Dwayne Pride, and Chelsea Gilligan as Selina Garrett Photo: Sam Lothridge/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved /
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NCIS: New Orleans ratings pushed the CBS series into the broadcast Top 5 this week. Here are the NCIS: New Orleans season 6, episode 13 ratings.

There’s more good news for NCIS: New Orleans fans this week, but the latest NCIS: New Orleans ratings come with a catch.

Sunday’s latest episode, “The Root of All Evil,” saw the show break through into the Top 5 out of the 19 shows that aired on broadcast TV on March 1.

But while the series climbed up the overall ladder, it actually had less viewers than it did last week, albeit incrementally.

This episode earned 5.55 million live viewers, which was down slightly from the 5.56 that tuned in to the previous hour (-0.01).

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NCIS: New Orleans is also still CBS‘s lowest-rated series on Sunday nights. It was less than a half million people behind God Friended Me (at 5.998), but had a smaller audience than NCIS: Los Angeles (6.48 million) and a much smaller one than the news series 60 Minutes (9.16 million).

But reaching the Top 5 is still a plus for the show, as it meant that CBS had four out of the five most-watched series on March 1.

It would be hard to cancel any series that can stay in that upper echelon, especially since New Orleans held onto much of the audience that it gained last week. If it can continue to stay around that same number or improve upon it, that’s a further case for the series’ longevity.

Plus, the program is still more than a million viewers ahead of its direct competitor, ABC‘s crime drama The Rookie (4.53 million), although The Rookie has more viewers in the adults 18-49 key demographic (0.7 versus NOLA‘s 0.5).

And “The Root of All Evil” was miles ahead of NBC‘s caper series Good Girls (at 1.80 million).

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So while there’s room for improvement as far as NOLA needing to keep on par with CBS’s other shows, it’s not being seriously threatened by any other shows in the 10 p.m. hour.

The question will be if CBS wants something that’s going to be as strong as the rest of its lineup, or if it will be happy with the fact that NCIS: New Orleans ratings are still stronger than anything else that’s on at the same time.

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