Primetime Ratings: ABC Beats Tonys With Game Shows

Premiering a trio of game shows, ABC seized Sunday ratings honors, posting a 1.1 in viewers 18-49, according to the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. In second was CBS, which had the Tony Awards, at 0.9/4.

On ABC, an America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat started off prime, leading in to the season premiere of Celebrity Family Feud at 1.7, up 13% over last season’s premiere, then The $100,000 Pyramid at 1.2, flat with the 2017 premiere, and To Tell the Truth at 0.9, up 50% from its last season premiere.

CBS had 60 Minutes down 13% at 0.7, then the Tony Awards from 8 to 11 p.m. at 1.0. Last year’s Tonys, hosted by Kevin Spacey, rated a 0.9.

NBC did a 0.6/3. Dateline scored a flat 0.5 and led into repeats of America’s Got Talent and World of Dance.

Fox rated a 0.4/2. One Strange Rock did a 0.4, up 100% from the week before, and was followed by a Simpsons repeat. A pair of Ghosted episodes both did a 0.4.

Univision did a 0.3/1 and Telemundo a 0.2/1, both level with last Sunday.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.