‘Walker’ Debut Gives The CW Its Best Thursday Viewership Since 2018

The CW’s series premiere of Walker drew a 0.4 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 2.43 million viewers Thursday, sparking the network’s most watched Thursday primetime since 2018.

The series, which starts Supernatural alum Jared Padalecki in a revival of the Chuck Norris-starring CBS action drama that ran from 1993-2001, debuted with the most watched telecast in the 8 p.m. Thursday time slot for CW since December 2016 (a DC’s Legends of Tomorrow episode). Last night, Walker led into Legacies (0.2, 717K), which grew in both metrics week over week per Nielsen’s Live+Same Day fast affiliates.

ABC won the night in both the demo and viewers with its game show lineup of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (0.8, 6.09M), which saw a three-tenths dip from last week, followed by The Chase (0.7, 4.31M) and The Hustler (0.5, 2.66M), both off a tenth.

CBS was back with fresh episodes and had the night’s most watched show in Young Sheldon (0.8, 7.15M) which tied Wheel in the demo. B Positive (0.6, 5.04M), Mom (0.6, 4.92M) and The Unicorn (0.4, 3.45M) paved the way for Star Trek: Discovery (0.2, 1.75M), which bumped up a tenth with the original lead-ins.

On Fox, Hell’s Kitchen (0.7, 2.47M) and rookie Call Me Kat (0.5, 2.45M) were steady with last week, while Last Man Standing (0.4, 2.54M) dipped a tenth. NBC’s own rookie, Mr. Mayor (0.5, 3.09M), was also even, leading into a dipping Superstore (0.4, 2.16M). Law & Order: SVU (0.6, 3.63M) was even with last week and Dateline (0.3, 3.00M) was down a tenth.

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