Ratings: ‘Big Bang Theory’ Final Season Premiere Plummets 41 Percent From Last Year’s Start

NBC’s “Manifest” ties for TV’s highest-rated drama debut since “This Is Us”

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"The Conjugal Configuration" – Pictured: Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) and Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik). Sheldon and Amy's honeymoon runs aground in New York, while Penny and Leonard discover they are uncomfortably similar to Amy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fowler (Teller and Kathy Bates). Also, Koothrappali insults physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and starts a Twitter war, on the 12th season premiere of THE BIG BANG THEORY, on a special night, Monday, Sept. 24 (8:00-8:30 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Michael Yarish/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. © 2018 WBEI. All rights reserved.

Monday night was the official start to the 2018-19 TV season, and NBC emerged victorious with “The Voice” and its series debut of “Manifest.” CBS finished primetime as the ratings runner-up, despite “The Big Bang Theory” dropping hard from last season’s huge premiere, which was boosted by a Sheldon and Amy wedding-proposal cliffhanger.

As you might expect, broadcast primetime was filled was season and series premieres. For CBS, the “Magnum P.I.” reboot debuted between the new season premieres for “Young Sheldon” and “Bull.” For ABC, it was “Dancing With the Stars” and “The Good Doctor” kicking off their new runs.

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