Even the one football game no one cares about can score well enough to win the night.
NBC: The PRO BOWL, a game so uninteresting that there’s been recurring discussion about ending it altogether, had a 3.3 in preliminary numbers (down around 10% from last year), but that was sufficient for NBC’s last Sunday win on the gridiron until next fall.
CBS: Pre-Super Bowl Sunday slumped badly, as the network plugged its 8PM hole (while Amazing Race is on hiatus) with a 1.0 NCIS rerun, which did no good at all for THE MENTALIST (1.8, down 0.3) or THE GOOD WIFE (an all-time series low 1.5, down 0.4).
FOX: No domination by the animation slate last night, with THE SIMPSONS looking best by holding steady at 2.4. Everything else was down: BOB’S BURGERS by 0.3 to 2.0, FAMILY GUY by 0.4 to 2.8, and AMERICAN DAD by 0.3 to 2.1.
ABC: This is what the HALLMARK HALL OF FAME has come to: ABC wouldn’t even give its new entry a fresh ONCE UPON A TIME as lead-in, and the rerun it scheduled instead provided just a 0.9 platform for the movie’s dreadful 1.1.
Tonight’s big ratings event will be the second episode of THE FOLLOWING on FOX. CBS is all-rerun, as is CASTLE on ABC, with new product on the other networks. On cable, TNT begins the new season of its DALLAS revamp, which could get a jump-start due to Larry Hagman’s death, since he will continue to be featured in several episodes of the series that were shot while he was alive.
About the Author
