ABC topped Sunday’s primetime with its crop of game shows, besting CBS despite “Big Brother’s” big rating in the key demographic. Fox settled for a three-way fourth-place tie with Spanish-language networks Univision and Telemundo, despite Fred Savage’s “What Just Happened??!” recovering a bit.
Despite airing all repeats, NBC avoided that cluster.
ABC was first in ratings with a 0.7 rating/4 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and in total viewers with an average of 4.5 million, according to preliminary numbers. Following a rerun, “Celebrity Family Feud” at 8 p.m. had a 0.7/4 and 5 million viewers. “The $100,000 Pyramid” at 9 got a 0.8/4 and 5 million viewers. “To Tell the Truth” at 10 received a 0.7/4 and 4.1 million viewers.
CBS was second in ratings with a 0.5/3 and in viewers with 4.3 million. At 7, “60 Minutes” had a 0.5/3 and 6.2 million viewers. “Big Brother” at 8 landed a 1.0/5 and 4.3 million viewers. “Instinct” at 9 managed a 0.3/1 and 3.6 million viewers. An episode of CBS All Access series “The Good Fight” Season 1 followed at 10, further dragging down CBS’ primetime averages.
NBC was third in ratings with a 0.4/2 and in viewers with 2.3 million.
Fox, Univision and Telemundo tied for fourth in ratings, each with a 0.3/2. Fox was fourth in total viewers with 1 million, Univision was fifth with 843,000, Telemundo was sixth with 796,000.
For Fox, following repeats, “What Just Happened??!” at 9:30 got a 0.3/1 and 741,000 viewers.
The CW was seventh in ratings with a 0.1/1 and in viewers with 440,000. “Burden of Truth” at 8 had a 0.1/0 and 512,000 viewers. A rerun followed.