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The last Sunday of November sweeps wasn’t music to the ears of anyone.
ABC: The AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS matched its 2010 number–which would be better news if the 2010 rating hadn’t been its lowest ever, down more than 20% from the year before. However, that’s still far better than the network has been doing with its regular Sunday line-up this season. We’ll find out next week if the preemption did any damage to ONCE UPON A TIME‘s momentum.
FOX: With the late NFL game on CBS, THE SIMPSONS took a hit, down 20% from last week. Although the odious ALLEN GREGORY reached a new low, it actually retained more of the Simpsons audience than it had previously (70% compared to 60% a week earlier). The 9-10PM hour held steady.
CBS: The network had the benefit of the late game. However, CSI MIAMI is becoming an increasing problem, hitting a new season low and falling behind THE GOOD WIFE for the 2d time in 3 weeks. Next week CBS will experiment with reruns of Person Of Interest in their 2 hours against an inspirational TV-movie on ABC.
NBC: Football, the Peacock’s favorite sport. This week’s game was down a bit from recent weeks but still way more than needed for the nightly win. Next week the network gets the relatively unpromising Pittsburgh at Kansas City match-up, but soon its “flex” schedule will kick in, allowing it to cherry-pick attractive games with playoff implications.
Tonight the TERRA NOVA watch continues at FOX.
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