The prospects of finales didn’t improve ABC’s Sunday line-up.
DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2).
Ratings analysis and comparisons follow the chart.
ABC: AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS and the midseason finale of ONCE UPON A TIME both dropped 0.1 to 0.9. The 2-hour “season” finale of SECRETS & LIES stayed at 0.7.
FOX: The national late afternoon NFL game gave THE SIMPSONS a 1.1 bounce from its last original airing 2 weeks ago to 2.4, although SON OF ZORN hadn’t aired in 3 weeks (i.e., since another FOX NFL night), so that was down 0.3 to 1.3. FAMILY GUY (1.6) and THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1.1) were each up 0.2 from 2 weeks ago.
NBC: The preliminary number for SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was 5.1, down 0.7 from last week.
CBS: After 1.5 for 60 MINUTES, which was down 1.3 from last week (when CBS had the late afternoon NFL game), the network aired a trio of procedural reruns at 0.7-0.9.
CBS has its annual VICTORIA’S SECRET FASHION SHOW tonight, and ABC premieres this year’s THE GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT FIGHT, while FOX debuts SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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