Primetime Ratings: ‘Big Brother’ Bolsters CBS
Summer reality staple about people stuck in a house up considerably
CBS had the winning score in Sunday prime, with Big Brother leading the network to a 0.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. ABC matched CBS’ rating, and posted a 3 share.
60 Minutes got a 0.6 on CBS, down 33% from last Sunday, when it had a golf lead-in, and Big Brother shot up 25% to 1.0. Reruns of NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans followed.
ABC had reruns across prime: America’s Funniest Home Videos and its Sunday game shows.
NBC got a 0.4/3 and Univision a 0.4/2. NBC had Cannonball up 33% to 0.4 and NHL playoff action.
On Univision it was Aqui y Ahora up 50% to 0.3 and Quien Es La Mascara? at 0.3 and 0.4, up from 0.3. Quien is a Spanish-language version of The Masked Singer.
Telemundo did a 0.2/2 and Fox a 0.2/1. Telemundo had Exatlon Estados Unidos at 0.2 and 0.3 and La Voz at 0.2, both level with last week
On Fox it was comedy reruns.
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The CW did a 0.1/0. Fridge Wars got a flat 0.1 and a Supernatural rerun followed.
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.