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Cupertino and Line of Fire are very different shows on screen, but their ratings profiles early in the season are very similar.

Both shows draw about 3 million viewers for their initial airings (3.03 million for Cupertino’ s first two episodes on CBS, 2.98 million over three for Line of Fire on NBC). That’s not bad for a 10 p.m. network show — it tends to be the least watched hour of primetime — but a few other series that air in that hour are ahead of them.

Cupertino and Line of Fire are also picking up a lot of viewing — most of their seven-day totals, in fact — after those initial airings. The 2026-27 TV season is just a month old, so these are necessarily small sample sizes. But if these early patterns hold up, Cupertino and Line of Fire are poised to draw audiences well above their same-day audiences.

CBS’ two other rookies, NCIS: New York and Eternally Yours , also had good starts, with the former’s Oct.…