Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Sunday Game Shows
ABC won the Sunday ratings race, as its weekly game shows led to a 0.9 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That beat the 0.7/3 that CBS posted.
ABC had an America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat, then Celebrity Family Feud at 1.1, $100,000 Pyramid at 0.9, and To Tell the Truth at 0.8. Last Sunday’s game shows were repeats. The week before, Celebrity Family Feud rated a 1.2, $100,000 Pyramid a 1.0 and To Tell the Truth a 0.8.
On CBS, a 60 Minutes repeat led into Big Brother, up 8% to 1.3, then a pair of NCIS: Los Angeles reruns.
NBC did a 0.5/2. Running Wild With Bear Grylls scored a 0.3, down 50% from its last airing. An America’s Got Talent repeat aired, then Shades of Blue at a flat 0.5.
Fox was at 0.4/2. One Strange Rock dropped 33% to 0.2. Comedy reruns followed, then a new Ghosted at a flat 0.4.
Telemundo and Univision both rated 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.