Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Games
ABC got top score in Sunday ratings, its game shows pacing the network to a 0.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. On a night with low ratings across the board, that beat the 0.5/3 that CBS rated.
ABC had an America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat, then Celebrity Family Feud off 22% at 0.7, $100,000 Pyramid at 0.8 and To Tell the Truth at 0.7, the latter two level.
CBS had 60 Minutes down 17% at 0.5 and Big Brother at a flat 1.0. Instinct got a 0.3 and The Good Fight a 0.2, both flat with last week.
NBC did a 0.4/2 with repeats of America’s Got Talent, Bring the Funny and New Amsterdam.
Fox, Telemundo and Univision all scored a 0.3/2.
Fox had repeats leading into What Just Happened?!? With Fred Savage up 50% at 0.3.
The CW did a 0.1/1, with Burden of Truth at a flat 0.1 and a repeat of The 100.
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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.