Empire overtakes The Big Bang Theory as the most popular series on network TV
Call it beginner’s luck, or justified result, or pretty much anything you want: Empire has passed The Big Bang Theory as this season’s No. 1 rated series on broadcast television. Joe Adalian of Vulture tweeted the numbers out, showing that Empire scored a 6.9 and TBBT a 6.7 in the key 18-49 demographic. (That’s most important scripted series—Sunday Night Football is slightly more popular, as Adalian also pointed out. And when you add cable to the mix, The Walking Dead crushes them all.)