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Even with the Democratic National Convention of 2020 and typically lower than summer view, America’s Got Talent won in the ratings on Tuesday, August 18 – although it hit a season-low in total viewers. The second week of AGTThe live shows feature guest judge Kenan Thompson filling in for Simon Cowell’s recovery on Tuesday and Wednesday night shows this week.
As the night two of the DNC with Democratic presidential nominees Joe Biden’s wife, Jill, deliver a speech on why her husband is the perfect man to lead the country, NBC led the package by a slight margin of 2.3 million compared to CBS ‘2.0 and ABC’s 1.8. That’s a change from Monday night’s first night when ABC took the lead with 2.1 million viewers, followed by NBC (1.9) and then CBS (1.7).
Here is the distribution for Tuesday, August 18, 2020 (numbers are fast affiliate based):
| Time | Let’s see | Adults 18-49 rating | Total viewers (millions) |
| 8 pm | America’s Got Talent (NBC) | 0.8 | 5.5 |
| NCIS – R (CBS) | 0.3 | 4.5 | |
| Modern family – R (ABC) | 0.3 | 2.0 | |
| Hell’s Kitchen – R (Fox) | 0.3 | 1.4 | |
| Dead Pixels (CW) | 0.1 | 506,000 | |
| 20.30 hrs | Modern family – R (ABC) | 0.3 | 1.6 |
| Whose line Is it anyway? – R (CW) | 0.1 | 367,000 | |
| 9 pm | FBI – R (CBS) | 0.3 | 3.5 |
| What would you do? (ABC) | 0.3 | 1.8 | |
| The prodigal son – R (Fox) | 0.2 | 692 ,, 000 | |
| Tell me a story (CW) | 0.1 | 309,000 | |
| 10 pm | Democratic National Convention (NBC) | 0.3 | 2.3 |
| Democratic National Convention (CBS) | 0.2 | 2.0 | |
| Democratic National Convention (ABC) | 0.3 | 1.8 |
