Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With ‘Thursday Night Football’

NBC skated to a Thursday win in prime ratings, riding Thursday Night Footballto a 3.1 rating in viewers 18-49, and a 12 share. CBS was next at 1.5/6.

Football Night in America did a 2.0 on NBC, down 31% from its Thanksgiving rating, and the game, the Cowboys crushing the Redskins, fell 35% from Turkey Day to a 3.3. The week before that, the game did a 2.8.

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On CBS, Big Bang Theory fell 8% to 2.4 and Young Sheldon dropped 19% to 2.1. Mom slipped 22% to 1.4 and Life in Pieces was off 15% at 1.1, before SWAT lost a tenth at 1.0.

ABC was at 1.3/5. A Charlie Brown Christmas did a 1.6, up a tenth from last December. The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration rated a 1.2 from 9 to 11 p.m.

Fox scored a 0.9/3. Gotham slipped 11% to 0.8 and The Orville was a flat 0.9.

The CW did a 0.4/2. Supernatural grew 67% from Thanksgiving to 0.5 and Penn & Teller: Fool Us did a 0.3, down a tenth from its last new airing.  

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.