With “Empire” off the air, everyone but Fox breathed a slight sigh of relief last night at 9 o’clock in the prime-time ratings race. The following hour, the series finale of ABC’s “Nashville” posted a double-digit hike from the prior week.
It wasn’t enough to overtake NBC across all of primetime, however, as “Law & Order: SVU” put up the best numbers of the night. Plus, the “Chicago PD” season finale didn’t hurt.
CBS and ABC tied as runners-up in the key 18-49 demographic, within one-tenth of a Nielsen ratings point of NBC.
NBC was first in ratings with a 1.2