Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins With Bigger ‘Brother’
CBS took the top spot in Sunday’s prime ratings, posting a 0.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. In second was ABC at 0.7/3.
CBS had a 60 Minutes repeat, then Big Brother was up 14% at 1.6. Repeats of NCIS: New Orleans and NCIS: Los Angeles followed.
ABC had reruns of America’s Funniest Home Videos and Celebrity Family Feud. A new $100,000 Pyramid did a flat 0.8 and To Tell the Truth was down 14% at 0.6.
NBC was at 0.6/3. Dateline was good for a 0.5, down 38% from last week. U.S. Women’s Gymnastics landed a 0.6 and the Shades of Blue finale a level 0.6. That spells the end of the Jennifer Lopez cop drama after three seasons.
Fox did a 0.5/2. Golf crept into prime and was followed by two repeats of The Simpsons, two of Bob’s Burgers, and one of Family Guy.
Univision scored 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.