Will Thorne Staff WriterCBS aired a tribute to the late civil rights pioneer John Lewis on Tuesday night to just under 3 million total viewers, as the “America’s Got Talent” 15th anniversary special won the night overall.The hour-long “John Lewis: Celebrating a Hero,” which was co-hosted by the stellar lineup of Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Gayle King and Brad Pitt, scored a 0.3 rating among adults 18-49 and drew almost exactly 3 million total viewers.
Right before that, replays of “NCIS” and “FBI” scored a 0.5 and a 0.4 rating respectively, as well as 4.9 and 4.1 million total viewers.NBC came top in the network race, as the “AGT” special delivered a 0.8 rating and 6.1 million pairs of eyeballs.
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