Primetime Ratings: Cowboys-Eagles Leads NBC
‘Simpsons’ benefits from NFL lead-in
NBC won the Sunday ratings race, as it does when Sunday Night Football is on. Cowboys-Eagles ruled the roost for NBC. Its 3.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and 18 share beat Fox’s 2.2/12.
NBC had Football Night in America down 22% to 1.4 and the game a 3.8 from 8 to 11 p.m., up 9% from Seahawks-Cardinals the Sunday before.
Fox had the NFL leading in to The OT at 4.6. The Simpsons got a noisy 2.2 with its annual “Treehouse of Horror” episode and Bless the Harts a 0.9. Bob’s Burgers and Family Guy both got a 0.7. The Sunday animated comedy block was back with the MLB post-season done.
ABC and CBS both scored a 0.5/3. On ABC, America’s Funniest Home Videos got a flat 0.7 and Supermarket Sweep was down 13% to 0.7. Who Wants to be a Millionaire rated a 0.5 and Card Sharks a 0.3, those two level with last week.
On CBS it was 60 Minutes at 0.8, down from the previous week’s 2.4, when it had a football lead in and President Trump and Joe Biden on. Movie Star Trek Beyond rated a 0.4.
Telemundo and Univision both got a 0.3/1. Telemundo had movies Overboard and The Rundown.
On Univision it was Aqui y Ahora up 50% to 0.3 and movie The Impossible. Sal y Pimenta got a flat 0.2.
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The CW scored a 0.1/0. Pandora lost a tenth for a 0.0 and led into a Whose Line is it Anyway? repeat.
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.