Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Robust Game Shows
ABC was best of the bunch in terms of Sunday ratings, putting up a 1.1 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. It did a 1.0/5 the Sunday before.
NBC was runner-up at 0.6/2.
ABC aired its game shows. A repeat of America’s Funniest Home Videos led into Celebrity Family Feud at a flat 1.4, then Steve Harvey’s Funderdome was up a tenth of a point at 1.1, and The $100,000 Pyramid grew 22% to 1.1.
On NBC, Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly slipped 20% to 0.4, then the film Despicable Me did a 0.5. A repeat of Little Big Shots: Forever Young went to the end of prime.
CBS and Fox were both at 0.4/2. On CBS, 60 Minutes grew 40% to 0.7 and was followed by repeats.
On Fox, repeated comedies led into a new American Grit, down 20% at 0.4.
Univision rated a 0.4/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/1.
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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.