Like a Lamb: This Was the Least-Watched Broadcast Show in March

Rank: 18  •   Show:  “Cherries Wild”   •   Net: Fox   •   Total Viewers: 1.111 million   •  This Pepsi-produced game show had a flat debut.

Fox

Rank: 17  •   Show:  “Holmes Family Effect”   •   Net: Fox   •   Total Viewers: 1.230 million   •  Imported CTV show did not have a positive effect on Fox’s ratings.

Rank: 16  •   Show:  “The Hustler”   •   Net: ABC   •   Total Viewers: 1.993 million   •  Hustlin’ skills will need to improve if this show wants to get away from the bottom of the Nielsen chart.

ABC

Rank: 15   •   Show:  “America’s Most Wanted”   •   Net: Fox   •   Total Viewers: 2.200 million   •  Apparently, America didn’t especially want this show back.

Fox

Rank: 14   •   Show:  “The Great North”   •   Net: Fox   •   Total Viewers: 2.275 million   •   Way too far south on this list to be great.  

Fox

Rank: 13   •   Show:  “Name That Tune”   •   Net: Fox   •   Total Viewers: 3.036 million   •   It ain’t the old days of TV ratings, but this’ll do. (Especially for Fox.)

Fox

Rank:  12 •   Show:  “Game of Talents”   •   Net: Fox  •   Total Viewers: 3.096 million   •   Slightly more talented than…

Fox

Rank: 11   •   Show:  “Call Your Mother”   •   Net: ABC   •   Total Viewers: 3.227 million   •  A premiere audience that not only a mother could love.

ABC

Rank: 10   •   Show:  “Clarice”   •   Net: CBS   •   Total Viewers: 3.960 million   •  “Silence of the Lambs” sequel series “Clarice” was not very silent in its debut, drawing 4 million viewers and topping its 10 p.m. time slot. 

CBS

Rank: 9   •   Show:  “Kenan”   •   Net: NBC   •   Total Viewers: 4.071 million   •   The lead-out for “Young Rock” didn’t have quite as strong a debut as its lead-in, but “SNL” staple Kenan Thompson still drew a decent crowd.

NBC

Rank: 8   •   Show:  “The Masked Dancer”   •   Net: Fox   •   Total Viewers: 4.123 million   •   Doing its parent series, “The Masked Singer,” semi-proud with a strong-enough debut audience, which came on the heels of an NFL doubleheader.

Fox

Rank: 7   •   Show:  “Debris”   •   Net: NBC   •   Total Viewers: 4.360 million   •  Not garbage.

NBC

Rank: 6   •   Show:  “Mr. Mayor”   •   Net: NBC   •   Total Viewers: 4.917 million   •   Cheers to Ted Danson.

NBC

Rank: 5   •   Show:  “Young Rock”   •   Net: NBC   •   Total Viewers: 5.034 million   •   “Young Rock” was NBC’s most-watched sitcom debut since 2017. Congrats, Dwayne.

NBC

Rank: 4   •   Show:  “Call Me Kat”   •   Net: Fox   •   Total Viewers: 5.372 million   •   Mayim Bialik’s new sitcom lapped up a whole bunch of viewers — for a comedy, especially for a Fox comedy — but it also followed a good NFL game.

Fox

Rank: 3   •   Show:  “The Chase”   •   Net: ABC   •   Total Viewers: 6.203 million   •   Just chasing “The Equalizer” (with a big asterisk) and “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” — for now.

ABC

Rank: 2  •   Show:  “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune”   •   Net: ABC   •   Total Viewers: 7.831 million   •   NOT bankrupt.

ABC

Rank: 1   •   Show:  “The Equalizer”   •   Net: CBS   •   Total Viewers: 20.4 million   •  Immediately following Super Bowl LV, “The Equalizer” bowed to what appears to be a whopper of an audience. But in context, the Queen Latifah drama drew the third-smallest audience ever for a show that had the Super Bowl as its lead-in.

CBS