CBS won the prime-time ratings contest in the ninth week of the fall television season, with "Scarlett" providing some red-letter days.
Three episodes of the miniseries were in the Top 10 to according to the Nielsen ratings.CBS earned a 14.3 rating and a 23 percent share of the TV audience; ABC was a distant second with a 12.5/20, and NBC trailed with an 11.4/18 share.
Fox had an 8.0/12.
A singe ratings point equals 954,000 homes, and the share is the percentage of TV sets tuned in during a specific time period.
"Scarlett" averaged an 18.5 rating, 28 share in its four, two-hour prime-time episodes. For the same period, ABC averaged a 14.2 rating/21 and NBC an 11.5/17.
CBS' victory was its second for the season, compared with seven for ABC. CBS moved to within one-tenth of a single ratings point of season-to-date leader ABC, which is averaging a 12.2 rating, 20 share.
CBS is at 12.1/20 share for the season and NBC is at 11.6/19. CBS has a commanding lead in the November sweeps.
Among newscasts, ABC's "World News Tonight" won with an 11.1 average rating, 21 share; "CBS Evening News" earned a 9.9 rating, 18 share, and "NBC Nightly News" a 9.6 rating, 18 share.