Tuesday, May 19, 2026

“Roseanne” Ratings Fall to Earth as Reruns of First 4 Shows Beaten Soundly By “The Voice,” and an “NCIS” Repeat

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“Roseanne” fell back to Earth last night.

Five weeks in, ABC ran not an original episode but a two hour “marathon” of the first four episodes. They averaged 6.1 million viewers, way off from the 13 million of the last two weeks and 15 million of the premiere week.

Indeed, “Roseanne” fell spectacularly in the 9-10pm hour to “The Voice” with its 9 million pairs of eyes.

The comedy was also beaten by back to back reruns of “NCIS” at 8pm and 9pm, with nearly 7 million.

But “Roseanne” is still scoring high with women in the 18 to 49 demographic, so advertisers and ABC are happy, happy, happy.

The show returns next week with a new episode. In the meantime, here’s a look back:

 

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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