Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Ratings: ABC’s Wednesday Night Comedy Line Up Loses the Night Again, But They’re All Renewed!

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ABC’s devotion to mediocrity is really paying off.

The network renewed all five of their Wednesday shows this week. And, as has been the case all season, all five scored poor ratings for the night. ABC was trounced as usual by NBC, CBS, and Fox.

The highest number of viewers mustered was for “The Conners” at 9pm with 2.83 million. Just below them were “The Goldbergs” with 2.79 million. Not able to crack 2 million eyes were “Home Economics,” “The Wonder Years,” and “A Million Little Things.” The latter had just a few more than a million little viewers.

And so it goes. NBC’s “Chicago” block won the night. Fox’s “The Masked Singer” had four million viewers followed by half that for the return of “So You Think You Can Dance.”

Not the brightest night in TV history for a sweeps month.

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Roger Friedman
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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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