‘Big Bang Theory’ Series So-Long Crowd Grows To 23.4M In Live + 3 – Yahoo Entertainment

The Big Bang Theory’s 279th and final episode has aggregated an audience of 23.44 million viewers according to the just released Nielsen live + 3 day ratings for last Thursday, May 16.

That’s up from the average of 18 million people who watched the series episode of history-making hit CBS comedy last Thursday night.

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The L+3 stat makes Big Bang’s finale episode the most watched non-sports series program of the 2018-19 season.

The number does not include viewing from Monday night’s encore broadcast of the finale on CBS in primetime which clocked another 6 million viewers.

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