Not counting sports programming, for the 2014-2015 fall season, Empire was the highest ranked program for the 18/49 demo & The Big Bang Theory was the highest viewed program.
As of 2013 the highest rated scripted show is "NCIS".
Simpsons
Spongebob
Scandal
ER was the highest rated show for the 1995-1996 television season.
"American Idol."
The telenovela, La Que No Podía Amar, is the highest-rated TV show among the Latino audience. The show airs on Univision, and attracts 5.2-million viewers.
Seinfeld. E.R. was number two.
Gunsmoke
Apparently so, to its millions of viewers -- it's not only the highest rated comedy on TV, it's the highest rated show of ANY kind on TV.
Bonanza was the highest rated show in 1965, 1966 and 1967.
Big Bang Theory has been the highest rated comedy for the past three years.