Most Watched Prime Time TV Shows Last Month

This long-running reality series divides island castaways into three tribes who face mental physical challenges as they compete for prizes. The Emmy-award winning show’s hook is “outwit, outplay and outlast” to be crowned the only survivor. The show entered its 42nd season this year.

We associate the FBI with domestic law enforcement, but “FBI: International,” the international division, sends agents all over the world to protect Americans in other countries. The series was co-created by D. Wolf, who’s responsible for such enduring series as the “Law & Order” franchise.

Derek Haas, who co-created “FBI: International” with Wolf created this series about the professional and personal lives of medical workers in America’s third-largest city. Among the stars of the show is S. Epatha Merkerson, whom viewers will remember as a streetsmart police lieutenant on “Law & Order.”

The king of television news magazines, with its trademark stopwatch ticking away to open the show, has been ensconced on Sunday nights since 1968 and is one of the longest-running programs of all time. Original hosts Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner spent a combined 99 years on the program.

“American Idol” took the country by storm with its format of singers vying for a chance at a record contract, and being evaluated by a panel of judges. The show has won nine Emmy Awards, made acerbic judge Simon Cowell one of the most detested people on television, and launched the careers of performers Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, Katherine McPhee, and Carrie Underwood, among others.

The enduring “NCIS” series – it’s been on CBS since 2003 – is an action drama following a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. TV veteran Mark Harmon stars. The NCIS franchise now includes spinoffs “NCIS: Los Angeles,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” and “NCIS: HawaiÊ»i.”

NBC plumbed the EMS genre that focuses on Chicago by adding “Chicago Fire” in 2012, following “Chicago Med.” The show looks at the pressures of the job brought to bear on the firefighting professionals.

The “NBA Playoffs” this year proved to be riveting. The finals pit Western Conference Champion Golden State Warriors, the NBA’s most recent dominant dynasty, against the Easern Conference-winning Boston Celtics, who along with the Los Angeles Lakers, have won the most NBA titles.

“Young Sheldon,” the successful prequel to “The Big Bang Theory,” delves into the life events that caused super genius Sheldon Lee Cooper to develop his idiosyncratic behavior that has manifested itself in his adult life.

Not quite a reboot of the series of the same name in the 1970s, “FBI” is another crime series co-created by the prolific D. Wolf (famed for the “Law & Order” franchise). The series features an ensemble cast.