The NFL Draft dominated Thursday's ratings, setting an all-time high in viewers for the first round amid a sports-starved TV landscape.
Coverage of the draft on ABC, ESPN and NFL Network, plus ESPN Deportes and digital outlets, averaged 15.6 million viewers — a 37 percent improvement over night one of the 2019 draft and an all-time high for the event.
Night one of last year's draft averaged 11.1 million viewers across all three networks.
Elsewhere Thursday, the series finale of Will & Grace delivered the NBC comedy's biggest audience in 13 months, 3.13 million viewers. It drew a 0.5 in adults 18-49, in line with its same-day season average. A series retrospective following the finale clocked in at 2.94 million viewers and 0.5 in the demo. The finale of Superstore (3.1 million viewers, 0.7 in 18-49) was in line with its last episode April 2, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2.32 million, 0.6) and Law & Order: SVU (3.68 million, 0.7) were both up a little with their finales.
CBS' Man With a Plan (5.74 million viewers, 0.6 in adults 18-49) and Broke (4.82 million, 0.6) each declined without new episodes of Young Sheldon and Mom as their respective lead-ins. Tommy (4.64 million, 0.5) was also down a bit versus last week. Last Man Standing (4.07 million, 0.7) improved week-to-week on Fox, and The CW's Katy Keene and In the Dark both drew 0.1s in the demo.
ABC's 1.6 rating among adults 18-49 (pending updates) easily led primetime. CBS and NBC tied for second at 0.6. Fox and Univision also tied at 0.5, followed by Telemundo (0.4) and The CW (0.1).
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