NCIS season 20 crossover delivers huge ratings win; what it means
So where do we start everything off here? Let’s just get into a talk about basic performance. The first hour of the event (the NCIS season 20 episode) drew a 0.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 7.7 million viewers — the show’s best performance in the latter metric since the end of the Mark Harmon era. Meanwhile, the NCIS: Hawaii episode drew a 0.5 and 7.2 million viewers, which is the show’s best performance for Monday-night episode we have seen.
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Finally, NCIS: Los Angeles managed a 0.5 and 6.7 million viewers. Per TVLine, that is the largest audience for this show in over two years — and that was probably an episode boosted in part by football.
The larger impact
Could CBS opt for a three-hour NCIS block all of next season? We theorized days ago that this may have been one of the goals of this crossover — not so much to do another one soon, but to see what the ratings were across the board. The network already has a three-hour FBI block and this would enable them to retain viewers in a way that they typically can’t. This would certainly be the best-case scenario for NCIS: Los Angeles, in the event it comes back for another season. (As it stands, it remains very much on the bubble.)
We probably won’t get a firm decision about any of this until we get around to the spring, but we’d say that for now, this is totally something to monitor.
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