Primetime Ratings: Football Fuels Fox Win

UPDATED: Fueled by football playoffs, Fox won Sunday night with a 5.3 rating in adults 18-49 and a 16 share. With Jimmy Fallon hosting the Golden Globes, NBC was next at 4.1/13. CBS did a 1.0/3 and ABC had a 0.8/3.

Fox rode NFL coverage into prime, with The Simpsons at 4.9, Son of Zorn at 2.3, Family Guy at 1.8 and Bob’s Burgers at 1.5.

The Globes scored a 5.6 out of a 2.2 red carpet special, and 20 million total viewers. Last year’s telecast did a 5.5 in the 18-49 demo, and drew 18.5 million total viewers.

On CBS, NCIS: Los Angeles was down a tenth of a point at 1.3, then Madam Secretary fell 18% to 0.9, before Elementary slipped 13% to 0.7.

ABC had America’sFunniest Home Videos at 0.8, down 20%, then To Tell the Truth was up 25% at 1.0 and Conviction up 25% at 0.5.

Michael Malone

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.