NBC is living its best life right now. The network just took the lead in total primetime viewers for the 2017-2018 season, with an average of 9.56 million through 20 weeks, according to the most current Nielsen numbers. Of course, that’s all thanks to Super Bowl LII, that fiery post-game episode of “This Is Us” and the 2018 Winter Olympics.
This is quite the achievement for the Peacock, which has not hit No. 1 in the Big Four’s competition for total viewers since the 2001-2002 campaign. NBC has pulled ahead of CBS’ average of 9.38 million and is up 7 percent in total viewers compared to this same time in the 2016-17 season.