ABC won Friday in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49 (2nd week in a row). The Net's season finales of Last Man Standing and Malibu Country stood as Friday's Top 2 most-watched TV shows overall, while Last Man Standing and 20/20 tied as the night's #1 show in Adults 18-49. In fact season to date, ABC is Friday's #1 network in Adults 18-49, gaining 13% year to year with its strongest delivery on the night in 4 years - since the 2008-09 season.
Friday's #1 TV show, ABC's season closer of
Last Man Standing Built week to week by 22% in viewers and by 14% in Adults 18-49. Earning best-since premiere numbers,
Last Man Standing drew its biggest audience and matched its highest Adult 18-49 rating since its season opener on November 2, 2012.
Last Man Standing also topped its year-ago Tuesday finale by 18% in Total Viewers (on 5/8/12) and was within 1-tenth of a rating point in Adults 18-49.
TV's most-watched new comedy this season, ABC's season finale of
Malibu Country ranked #1 in the 8:30pm half hour, surging week to week by 25% in Total Viewers and by 27% in Adults 18-49.
Malibu Country closed out with its most-watched telecast since November 9, 2012 (series' 3rd largest audience ever) and equaled its top Adult 18-49 rating since December 14, 2012.
In the 9pm hour among Adults 18-49, ABC's repeat
Shark Tank tied NBC's original
Grimm and doubled the number for Fox's first-run Touch (+100%). In addition for the 2nd week in a row, ABC's
Encore Shark Tank finished as the most-watched TV program in the 9 o'clock hour, pacing well ahead of its original competition.
Shark Tank delivered its 2nd-most-watched repeat telecast ever.
Spiking week to week, ABC's
20/20 won the 10 o'clock hour in Total Viewers, Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54. The
ABC newsmagazine defeated
Rock Center with BrIan Williams by 2.4 million viewers, by 78% in Adults 18-49 and by 83% and Adults 25-54, winning every head-to-head matchup in the time period in the two key adult demos.
20/20 reported on the Steubenville, Ohio court case. Building week to week in Total Viewers (+15%), Adults 18-49 (+14%) and Adults 25-54 (+10%),
20/20 delivered its best numbers since December 14, 2012.
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