In what amounts to a very good sign, ABC’s The Good Doctor held on to its debut audience, averaging a 2.2 among primetime’s key demographic of adults 18-49 and 11.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen’s final live plus same day ratings.

Accordingly, ABC gave the show a full-season order on Tuesday, a week after CBS did the same for Young Sheldon. The Good Doctor stars Freddie Highmore as a brilliant young doctor who is on the autism spectrum.

ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, just entering season 25, added more than 30 percent among both adults 18-49 and viewers compared to its season premiere at a 1.6 in the demo and 9.5 million viewers.

That performance allowed ABC to win the night in viewers and take second to NBC in the demo.

CBS’ The Big Bang Theory fell back by nearly a ratings point from its 11th season premiere to a 3.2 in the demo with 14.06 million viewers tuning in. Even with that decline, Big Bang was still easily the top-rated and most-watched program of the evening.

CBS’ new comedy, 9JKL, premiered to a 1.6 in the demo and 8.2 million viewers, which is solid compared to the rest of the freshman class but pales compared to how Young Sheldon opened on the previous Monday.

CBS’ Kevin Can Wait, which replaced Erinn Hayes with Leah Remini, fell back 30% in both the demo and viewers at a 1.3 and 6.8 million, respectively. Similarly, Me, Myself and I, starring Bobby Moynihan and John Larroquette, also declined by more than 30% at a 1.0 in the demo and 5.2 million viewers. At 10 p.m., Scorpion was down two-tenths of a ratings point from its season premiere to a 0.8 in the demo and 5.3 million viewers.

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Fox debuted season three of Lucifer to a 1.1 in the demo and 3.9 million viewers at 8 p.m. ET/PT, which is down more than 10% from the season two premiere but up from the season two finale, according to Variety.

And the series premiere of highly-promoted The Gifted debuted at a 1.5 in the demo and 4.9 million viewers at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Finally, NBC won the night in the demo with two hours of The Voice averaging a 2.6 in the demo and 11 million viewers, even with last week’s debut. That was followed by episode 2 of The Brave at 10 p.m., which dipped in episode two to a 1.1 in the demo and 5.4 million viewers.

READ MORE: Variety, TVbytheNumbers

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