‘Roseanne’ is still tops

Viewership for the second week of the new “Roseanne” dropped 16.6% from the first to 15.40 million viewers but was still last week’s most-watched prime-time television program.

CBS won six of seven nights between April 2 and Sunday and had five of the week’s eight programs to average more than 10 million viewers to be the mostwatched network for the fifth consecutive week and 12th time in the 28-week-old prime-time television season, according to the liveplus-same-day figures released by Nielsen on Tuesday.

CBS averaged 7.27 million viewers for its primetime programming, with “The Big Bang Theory” its most-watched program, averaging 13.00 million viewers to finish in third overall behind “Roseanne” and the NCAA men’s basketball final.

With the two episodes of “The Voice” finishing eighth and ninth for the week, NBC edged ABC for second place, averaging 4.82 million viewers.

ABC was third, averaging 4.81 million viewers. However, it was first among viewers ages 18 to 49 for the second consecutive week and the fourth time in six weeks. are the combined rankings for national prime-time network and cable television last week (April 02 - 08) as compiled by Nielsen. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish during its scheduled telecast or on a playback device the same day. Nielsen estimates there are 289 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions.