Primetime Ratings Sunday: ABC Wins Soft Night
Networks see ratings drop without football
ABC won Sunday night ratings, a weak night for the broadcasters. Thanks to game show originals up against reruns, ABC got a 0.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 3 share. In second was CBS at 0.4/3.
ABC had an America’s Funniest Home Videos rerun and then Who Wants to Be a Millionaire at 0.5. Card Sharks got a 0.5 and led into a repeat of The Rookie.
CBS had 60 Minutes at 0.7 and reruns of NCIS and its offshoots.
Fox and NBC both scored a 0.3/2 with reruns across prime.
Telemundo posted a 0.3/2 and Univision a 0.2/2. Telemundo had two hours of Exatlon Estados Unidos at 0.3 and 0.4 and movie The Boy Next Door.
On Univision it was Aqui y Ahora at 0.3, Imparables at 0.3 and Sal y Pimienta at 0.2
The CW had a 0.1/1. Batwoman got a 0.2 and Charmed a 0.1, the pair flat.
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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.