SEVEN-DAY MULTIPLATFORM NIELSEN VIEWERSHIP OCTOBER 12-18

CBS UP +12% FROM ITS WEEK #2 LAST YEAR

Network Places 14 of the Top 20 Series; Top Two Comedies; Top Three New Series

CBS episodes topped the Nielsen live plus 7-days of multiplatform viewership for the week of October 12-18. The network had fourteen of the top 20 series, the top two comedies #1 GEORGIE & MANDY'S FIRST MARRIAGE and #2 ETERNALLY YOURS and the season's top three new series: #1 NCIS: NEW YORK, #2 CUPERTINO and #3 ETERNALLY YOURS.

CBS viewership was up +12% year over year, with an average of 7.96 million viewers, compared with 7.14 million viewers during CBS second week of its last fall season (Oct. 19-25, 2025).

Source: Analysis of Nielsen Multiplatform Data; Big Data P2+ Prime, L+7, Monday, Oct 12 - Sunday Oct 18, 2026+ Nielsen SCR, 7-Day Total Flight for streaming. Does not include specials, encores or sports. For streaming series, only series with new episodes dropping during the date range are included.

More CBS Highlights - Monday, October 12 - Sunday, October 18:

· Monday, Oct. 12 - FBI (8:00 PM), CIA (9:00 PM) and HARLAN COBEN'S FINAL TWIST (10:00 PM)
· FBI (8.5m viewers) was up +13% from its second episode year-ago (9:00 PM).
· CIA (6.3m viewers) grew +70% from its Live+SD only average (3.7m).
· HARLAN COBEN'S FINAL TWIST (2.9m viewers) grew +49% from its Live+SD only average (1.9m).

· Tuesday, Oct. 13 - NCIS (8:00 PM), NCIS: NEW YORK (9:00 PM), NCIS: ORIGINS (10:00 PM)
· NCIS (10.1m viewers) was up +10% from its second episode last fall.
· #1 new series NCIS: NEW YORK (8.9m viewers) was up +38% from the time period last year (NCIS: ORIGINS).
· NCIS: ORIGINS (7.6m viewers) was up +18% from its year-ago episode (at 9:00 PM).

· Wednesday, Oct. 14 - SURVIVOR (8:00-9:30 PM), THE AMAZING RACE (9:30-11:00 PM)
· SURVIVOR (8.1m viewers), was up +19% year over year and posted its most watched episode this season.
· THE AMAZING RACE (5.1m viewers) was up +14% year over year and up +5% from last week.

· Thursday, Oct. 15 - GEORGIE & MANDY'S FIRST MARRIAGE (8:00 PM), ETERNALLY YOURS (8:30 PM), ELSBETH (9:00 PM), CUPERTINO (10:00 PM)
· #1 Comedy GEORGIE & MANDY'S FIRST MARRIAGE (8.1m viewers) was up +2% from its year-ago second episode
· #2 Comedy and #2 New Series ETERNALLY YOURS (6.4m viewers) had +611,000 more viewers than the #3 comedy of the week ("Abbott Elementary," 5.86m).
· #2 New Series CUPERTINO (6.8m viewers) more than doubled its live plus same-day audience (2.9m viewers).
· Grew to 9.6m viewers with the Sunday, October 18th encore episode included (2.8m).

· Friday, Oct. 16 - SHERIFF COUNTRY (8:00 PM), FIRE COUNTRY (9:00 PM) and BOSTON BLUE (10:00 PM)
· #3 series SHERIFF COUNTRY (10.3m viewers) grew +27% from its year-ago second episode.
· FIRE COUNTRY (7.8m viewers) was up +14% year over year.
· BOSTON BLUE (7.7m viewers) was up +2% from its season one average.

· Sunday, Oct. 18* - 60 MINUTES (7:39 PM, ET/ 7:00 PM, PT), MARSHALS (8:39 PM, ET/ 8:00 PM, PT) and TRACKER (9:39 PM, ET/ 9:00 PM, PT)
· 60 MINUTES (10.1m viewers) and #1 news program of the week.
· #1 series MARSHALS (13.5 viewers), up +3% from its October 4th episode (13.0m) and was the #1 most-streamed broadcast series of the week.
· #2 series TRACKER (13.4m viewers) was on par with its 2025/26 average (13.8m) and was the #2 most-streamed broadcast series of the week.

*CBS primetime programs were delayed by 39-minutes (in ET/CT) due to late-running NFL coverage.