Primetime Ratings: Game Shows Lead ABC to Win
ABC took top prize in Sunday’s primetime ratings, its game shows leading to a 0.9 score in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share.
In second was NBC at 0.6/3.
After an America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat, Celebrity Family Feud tallied a 1.2 on ABC, then The $100,000 Pyramid a 1.0. Both were down a tenth of a point. To Tell the Truth scored a flat 0.8 at 10 p.m.
On NBC, Dateline rated a level 0.5 and led into an America’s Got Talent repeat. Shades of Blue fell 17% from its premiere for a 0.5.
CBS did a 0.5/2. A 60 Minutes repeat led into Instinct, up 25% to 0.5. Repeats of SWAT and NCIS: Los Angeles followed.
Fox rated a 0.4/2. One Strange Rock was down 40% to 0.3 and was followed by repeated comedies, then a new Ghosted, which was off 20% at 0.4.
Telemundo and Univision both scored a 0.3/1.
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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.