The Fifth Year Action Drama Has an Average Audience of 18.2 Million Viewers

NCIS delivered an average audience of 18.2 million viewers, the second largest audience ever for a first run episode of CBS's fifth year action drama (just -0.02m behind Nov. 29, 2005), according to Nielsen updated live plus same day ratings for Tuesday, Nov. 6.

At 8:00 PM, NCIS was first in households (11.4/17), viewers (18.15m), adults 25-54 (5.5/13) and adults 18-49 (4.0/11).  Compared to last week, NCIS was up +10% in households (from 10.4/16), +12% in adults 25-54 (from 4.9/13), +21% in adults 18-49 (from 3.3/09) and added +1.82m viewers (from 16.33m, +11%). 

This is the sixth consecutive time period win in households, viewers and adults 25-54 for NCIS; fifth win in six weeks in adults 18-49. 

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