Last season was an anomaly for the talent show, which had its highest ratings ever during its 12th season. Still, “America’s Got Talent” remains by far the most popular television series of the summer, and NBC is planning a midseason edition this year for the first time. Last week the “NBC Nightly News” averaged 7.6 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 5.6 million. For the week of Sept. 17-23, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: NFL Football: New England at Detroit, NBC, 19.46 million; “NFL Pre-Kick,” NBC, 13 million; “America’s Got Talent” (Tuesday), NBC, 12.99 million; “America’s Got Talent” (Wednesday), NBC, 12.88 million; NFL Football: Seattle at Chicago, ESPN, 11.89 million; “The OT,” Fox, 11.55 million; “Emmy Awards,” NBC, 10.22 million; “911,” Fox, 9.83 million; “Football Night in America,” NBC, 9.13 million; “60 Minutes,” CBS, 8.99 million. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks.

Source: National Post September 25, 2018 21:10 UTC