Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Games

ABC got top score in Sunday ratings, its game shows pacing the network to a 0.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. On a night with low ratings across the board, that beat the 0.5/3 that CBS rated.

ABC had an America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat, then Celebrity Family Feud off 22% at 0.7, $100,000 Pyramid at 0.8 and To Tell the Truth at 0.7, the latter two level.

CBS had 60 Minutes down 17% at 0.5 and Big Brother at a flat 1.0. Instinct got a 0.3 and The Good Fight a 0.2, both flat with last week.

NBC did a 0.4/2 with repeats of America’s Got Talent, Bring the Funny and New Amsterdam.

Fox, Telemundo and Univision all scored a 0.3/2.

Fox had repeats leading into What Just Happened?!? With Fred Savage up 50% at 0.3.

The CW did a 0.1/1, with Burden of Truth at a flat 0.1 and a repeat of The 100

Michael Malone

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.