Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Game Night
ABC got top spot in Sunday prime ratings, its game shows leading to a 0.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That topped the 0.6/3 that CBS rated.
ABC matched its score from the previous Sunday. An America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat started off ABC’s prime. Celebrity Family Feud and $100,000 Pyramid both got a 0.8, Family Feud down a tenth of a point and $100,000 up a tenth. To Tell the Truth did a flat 0.6.
CBS had 60 Minutes up 20% at 0.6 and Big Brother down 9% to 1.0. Instinct got a 0.3 and The Good Fight a 0.2, those two dramas flat.
NBC was next at 0.4/2. A Hollywood Game Night repeat led into a track and field special at 0.3. An America’s Got Talent rerun closed out prime.
Fox got a 0.3/1 as comedy repeats led into What Just Happened With Fred Savage?!? at a level 0.2.
Telemundo and Univision both did a 0.2/1.
The CW got a 0.1/1 with Pandora repeats.
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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.