Ratings: NBC’s ‘La Brea’ Series Premiere Wins Its Time Slot

Drama debuts strong after “The Voice”

La Brea - Season 1
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“La Brea” was no (sink)hole in NBC’s Tuesday schedule. The new series scored 6.2 million viewers with last night’s premiere, which followed “The Voice.”

“The Voice” was Tuesday’s No. 1 show. If 10 o’clock show “New Amsterdam” had even a *solid* night, NBC would have won primetime outright.

It’s important to note here that Nielsen’s earliest-available numbers are likely inflating The CW’s performance. That’s because the young-skewing broadcast network carried an important New York Yankees game last night, and this first set of ratings data does not have that — nor time-zone differences — factored out.

NBC and ABC tied for first in ratings, both with a 0.7

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