Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins on Game Shows
ABC won the Sunday ratings race, as its game shows led to a 0.8, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That beat the 0.7/3 that CBS rated.
On ABC, America’s Funniest Home Videos was a rerun. Celebrity Family Feud slipped 9% to 1.0, $100,000 Pyramid was a flat 0.9 and To Tell the Truth a level 0.8/4.
On CBS, a 60 Minutes repeat led into Big Brother, which grew 8% for a 1.4. A pair of NCIS: Los Angeles repeats followed.
NBC did a 0.5/3. Running Wild With Bear Grylls did a flat 0.3 and was followed by an America’s Got Talent repeat. Shades of Blue wrapped up prime by going up 25% to 0.5.
Fox scored a 0.5/2. A One Strange Rock repeat led off prime, before repeated comedies led into a new Ghosted up 25% at 0.5.
Telemundo did a 0.3/1 and Univision a 0.2/1.
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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.