Primetime Ratings: Game Shows Lead ABC to Win
ABC took top prize in Sunday’s primetime ratings, its game shows leading to a 0.9 score in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share.
In second was NBC at 0.6/3.
After an America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat, Celebrity Family Feud tallied a 1.2 on ABC, then The $100,000 Pyramid a 1.0. Both were down a tenth of a point. To Tell the Truth scored a flat 0.8 at 10 p.m.
On NBC, Dateline rated a level 0.5 and led into an America’s Got Talent repeat. Shades of Blue fell 17% from its premiere for a 0.5.
CBS did a 0.5/2. A 60 Minutes repeat led into Instinct, up 25% to 0.5. Repeats of SWAT and NCIS: Los Angeles followed.
Fox rated a 0.4/2. One Strange Rock was down 40% to 0.3 and was followed by repeated comedies, then a new Ghosted, which was off 20% at 0.4.
Telemundo and Univision both scored 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.