The Sunday debut of this season of Big Brother (2.2/7) was the highest rated show of last night. The second episode of the reality show’s new 14th season, last night’s 8 PM show was down from Thursday’s 2.6/8 season premiere. After a repeat of America’s Funniest Home Videos (1.2/4), ABC had Secret Millionaire (1.5/5), which was flat with last week. That was followed by a two-hour edition of Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition (1.4/4) at 9 PM that was down a tenth of a point from last week.
CBS won the night in total viewers, with 5.409 million, while Fox and ABC were tied among Adults 18-49
Down from last week by three tenths of a point, Dateline NBC (0.8/3) started the network’s Sunday night at 7 PM. NBC followed that with a two-hour repeat of America’s Got Talent at 9 PM (1.0/3). Earlier CBS started the night strong with 60 Minutes (1.0/4) at 7PM. The news magazine series was the most watched show of the night in terms of overall viewers, pulling in 7.192 million. The network closed off the night with a repeat of The Good Wife (0.6/2) at 9 PM and The Mentalist (0.6/2) at 10 PM. An American Dad (0.8/3) kicked off Fox’s night of animated repeats at 7 PM. Dad was followed by The Cleveland Show (0.9/3), The Simpsons at 8 PM (1.6/5) and at 8:30 (1.6/5) and duel Family Guy episodes at 9 PM (1.7/5) and 9:30 PM (1.8/5).
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Nothing worth watching on Sundays anymore. All crap.
Thought Political Animals was very entertaining last night. A nice mix of comedy and drama.
Big Brother has got to be the oldest and stupidest reality show on tv now. They haven’t changed a thing in 12 years except a “twist” here and there. It’s still in standard def, you’re telling me in all of these years they can’t do it in HD? Even kids’ cartoons are in HD. And yes, they can still get a few hours worth of tv edited on time per week. Slop? What a joke. Old houseguests returning? Played. You can tell by the promos for this thing that Julie Chen is gagging while spitting out her rehearsed line. There’s so much they could have done with this show, but didn’t. So it’s not a surprise that ratings are down.
Year round now, broadcast tv ratings across the board are sad and anemic. The infiltration of perversity and deviancy as means of entertainment has caused families to shun broadcast and really almost all tv programming. Whatever the highest rated program on tv is right now almost no one is reaching the heights of viewership that shows attained just two years ago, with the exception of some of CBS’ investigation dramas, NCIS, CSI, etc. that can still pull decent to huge viewer numbers even if lacking in demo. All networks want 18-49 demo numbers but they fail to realize parents/adults still control what programming comes into the home through the tv sets.
Julie Chen is terrible on tv and if sue wasnt married to les moonves we wouldn’t know who she is
YUP. Welcome to TV-Land & Hollywood.
Sundays once were the jewel of the schedule and even the summer reruns on this night were top quality. No more! NBC cannot seem to do anything with the evening if there is no football. Audiences do not seem to have the appetite for dramsa yet cable does well with original thought-provoking series on Sunday evenings. Why do the webs stumble? Any of them could do a POLITICAL ANIMALS or LONGMIRE!
Not as dismal as all of you sad sacks paint it. TNT, A&E, HBO, STARZ, AMC, SHOWTIME — all doing great stuff. Others doing good stuff in between. Gotta look for it and give them a chance.
Good luck for everyone