Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Game Night

ABC got top spot in Sunday prime ratings, its game shows leading to a 0.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That topped the 0.6/3 that CBS rated.

ABC matched its score from the previous Sunday. An America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat started off ABC’s prime. Celebrity Family Feud and $100,000 Pyramid both got a 0.8, Family Feud down a tenth of a point and $100,000 up a tenth. To Tell the Truth did a flat 0.6.

CBS had 60 Minutes up 20% at 0.6 and Big Brother down 9% to 1.0. Instinct got a 0.3 and The Good Fight a 0.2, those two dramas flat.

NBC was next at 0.4/2. A Hollywood Game Night repeat led into a track and field special at 0.3. An America’s Got Talent rerun closed out prime.

Fox got a 0.3/1 as comedy repeats led into What Just Happened With Fred Savage?!? at a level 0.2.

Telemundo and Univision both did a 0.2/1.

The CW got a 0.1/1 with Pandora repeats. 

Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.