Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Potent ‘Idol’

ABC won the Sunday ratings battle, posting a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. Next were CBS and Fox at 0.7/3.

ABC had America’s Funniest Home Videos down 17% to 1.0, then American Idol up 15% to 1.5. Deception closed out prime down 14% at 0.6.

On CBS, 60 Minutes fell 36% to 0.7 and Instinct slipped 33% to 0.6 from its last airing two weeks before. NCIS: Los Angeles dropped 11% to 0.8 and Madam Secretary was a flat 0.6.

On Fox, it was Bob’s Burgers at a flat 0.8 and The Simpsons down 10% to 0.9. Brooklyn Nine-Nine did a 0.8 and Family Guy a 0.9, then The Last Man on Earth a 0.6, all three shows flat with last week.

NBC was at 0.6/2. Dateline scored a flat 0.6 and Little Big Shots was up 14% to 0.8. Genius Junior was down 14% to 0.6 and Timeless was a level 0.5.

Univision rated a 0.4/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/1.

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.