Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins Big With Patriots-Lions

NBC won the Sunday ratings contest, with Sunday Night Football leading the network to a 5.1 score in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 20 share. In second was Fox, enjoying an NFL lead-in to prime and boisterous 9-1-1 premiere, and rating a 2.4/10.

On NBC, Football Night in America slipped 13% to 2.1 and the game, Patriots versus Lions, fell 8% from last week to 5.7. The Lions won.

Fox had The OT at 3.5 and the season premiere of hit drama 9-1-1 a 2.3. The series premiere in January did a 1.8. Repeated comedies followed.

CBS did a 0.8/3. A 60 Minutes repeat led into Big Brother, which was down 24% to 1.3, and followed by repeats of NCIS: Los Angeles and Madam Secretary.

ABC scored a 0.6/2. After an America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat, Celebrity Family Feud was off 33% to 0.6 and $100,000 Pyramid did a 0.6. The second half of a double run, the $100,000 Pyramid finale rated a 0.5. Last week’s $100,000 Pyramid scored a 0.7.

Univision scored a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.4/2.

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.