{"id":661796,"date":"2026-10-22T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661796\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T06:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:30:18","slug":"chicago-med-season-12-premiere-ratings-8-8-million-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661796\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Chicago Med&#8217; Season 12 Premiere Ratings: 8.8 Million Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDick Wolf\u2019s One Chicago franchise \u2014 comprised of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/chicago-med\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chicago-med\" data-tag=\"chicago-med\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Med<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/chicago-fire\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chicago-fire\" data-tag=\"chicago-fire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Fire<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/chicago-p-d\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chicago-p-d\" data-tag=\"chicago-p-d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago P.D.<\/a>\u201d \u2014\u00a0returned to NBC on Oct. 7 with a bang, ranking as NBC\u2019s top three shows of the season thus far when accounting for seven days of viewership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cChicago Med\u201d led the pack, reaching 8.8 million viewers across all platforms in seven days after its Season 12 premiere, becoming the top broadcast show of the night of Oct. 7. Among viewers age 18-49, all three One Chicago series saw improvements compared to last year\u2019s season premiere ratings, with \u201cChicago Med\u201d in particular jumping 19% in 18-49 rating from the Season 11 premiere in 2025. For \u201cChicago Fire,\u201d Season 15\u2019s demo rating was up 9% from Season 14, and for \u201cChicago P.D.,\u201d Season 14 was up 3% from Season 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAdditionally, \u201cChicago Med\u201d and \u201cChicago Fire\u201d outperformed their previous season premieres in streaming viewership specifically. Both total viewership and isolated 18-49 rating showed improvements on Peacock after seven days of viewing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDick Wolf also had a win the following night: On Oct. 8, \u201cLaw &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit\u201d returned for its 28th season, and its rating among viewers age 18-49 ticked up by 1% compared to the Season 27 premiere in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cChicago Med\u201d is executive produced by Wolf, Allen MacDonald, Stephen Hootstein, Anna Dokoza, Lauren MacKenzie, Andrew Gettens, Meredith Friedman, Anastasia Puglisi, Rebecca McGill and Peter Jankowski. \u201cChicago P.D.\u201d is executive produced by Wolf, Puglisi, McGill, Jankowski, Gwen Sigan, Chad Saxton, Gavin Harris and Jason Beghe. \u201cChicago Fire\u201d is executive produced by Wolf, Puglisi, McGill, Jankowski, Victor Teran, Reza Tabrizi and Matt Whitney. Universal Television produces all three series in association with Wolf Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dick Wolf\u2019s One Chicago franchise \u2014 comprised of \u201cChicago Med,\u201d \u201cChicago Fire\u201d and \u201cChicago P.D.\u201d \u2014\u00a0returned to NBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[9053,25535,44321,93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-661796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-chicago-fire","tag-chicago-med","tag-chicago-p-d","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}