CBS’s answer to “America’s Got Talent,” the new James Corden-hosted competition series “The World’s Best,” bowed to 22.22 million total viewers on Sunday, following Super Bowl LIII. That’s down 18 percent compared to the show that had 2018’s coveted post-game time slot, “This Is Us.”
Last year, the NBC family drama scored 27 million total viewers and had a 9.3 rating among adults 18-49. Those were both way up from the prior year’s “24: Legacy” debut, which settled for 17.6 million overall sets of eyeballs and a 6.1 rating in the key demo. Last night, the “World’s Best” premiere did better than the latter show in the 18-49 range, but not the former program, posting a 7.0