Chicago Fire Rises With Finale, Bests Survivor to Top Wednesday

In the latest TV show ratings, NBC’s Chicago Fire finale led Wednesday both in total viewers and in the demo.

A total of 6.8 million people RSVP’d for Fire‘s season-ending wedding, which also ticked up in the demo to a 0.8 rating (and averaged an “A-” TVLine reader grade). Bookending the firefighter drama, the finales for Med (6.2 mil/0.6, reader grade “B+”) and P.D. (5.8 mil/0.7, reader grade “B+”) were both steady.

Over on CBS, Survivor‘s three-hour finale averaged 4.8 mil/0.7, a slight improvement over the conclusion of its fall cycle (4 mil/0.7). TVLine readers gave the finale an average grade of “C+,” while Season 42 netted a “B-.”

The CW’s The Flash (570K/0.1) and Kung Fu (470K/0.1) each added a handful of eyeballs.

Over on Fox, MasterChef returned to 1.7 mil/0.3, after which So You Think You Can Dance (1.2 mil/0.2) dropped sharply from its already-soft premiere.

At ABC, the Martha Stewart tag sale thing did 2.8 mil/0.3, followed by the American Rescue Dog Show‘s 2.1 mil/0.2.

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