Primetime Ratings Sunday: NBC on Top With Bears-Packers

Robert Tonyan #85 of the Green Bay Packers runs with the ball while being tackled by Buster Skrine #24 of the Chicago Bears in the first quarter at Lambeau Field on Nov. 29, 2020 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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NBC was the big winner in Sunday prime, with Sunday Night Football leading the way. NBC posted a 3.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and an 18 share. In second was CBS at 1.5/8.

Football Night in America was up 12% to 1.9 on NBC and Bears-Packers scored a 4.0, down 2% from Chiefs-Raiders the week before. 

CBS had Chiefs-Buccaneers starting off prime, then 60 Minutes was way up at 2.1. A rerun of The Neighborhood followed, then 1988 movie Coming to America got a 0.5. 

Fox scored a 0.5/2 and ABC a 0.4/2. Fox had comedy reruns, then The Simpsons at 0.6, way down from when it had an NFL lead in last week. Special Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas got a 0.4 and Bob’s Burgers slid 17% to 0.5. A Family Guy rerun closed out prime. 

On ABC, special Disney Prep & Landing got a 0.4 and Supermarket Sweep was down 38% to 0.5. Who Wants to be a Millionaire dropped 20% to 0.4 and Card Sharks posted a flat 0.3. 

Univision also scored a 0.4/2. Aqui y Ahora got a 0.3 and the finale of Tu Cara Me Suena a 0.4. Sal y Pimenta got a 0.3. All three were level with last week. 

Telemundo tallied a 0.2/1. Al Rojo Vivo got a 0.1 and movie The Fate of the Furious a 0.3. 

The CW was at 0.1/0. Pandora got a flat 0.1 and The Outpost lost a tenth for a 0.0. 

Michael Malone

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.