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It’s less than a week to Super Bowl XLVII but there was no absence of football on television last night. The NFC pummeled the AFC on Sunday in the annual NFL All Star Pro Bowl (3.3/8) game on NBC on Sunday. With 62 points to the AFC’s 35, the NFC set a single-game Pro Bowl record in the Honolulu-played game. However while the NFC set a high, in time zone metered-markets, the 7:30 PM to 11 PM broadcast dipped 8% from the 3.6/9 of last year’s January 29th game. The 7 PM half hour Pro-Bowl Pre-Game (3.0/9) was down 23% from last year in fast nationals. Fast affiliate ratings are not time zone adjusted but expect to see them rise in the final numbers. The 2012 game rose from 3.6/9 to 4.3/11 in the final numbers. With 9.8876 million watching, NBC edged a victory over CBS’ audience of 9.670 million to win the night in overall viewers. NBC was number one on Sunday among Adults 18-49.
With its much-hyped joint interview with President Barack Obama and outgoing Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, 60 Minutes (1.7/5) took a hit from the football game. The news magazine show was down 48% from its last original on January 13. 60 Minutes was followed by an encore airing of NCIS (1.0/2) and a new episode of The Good Wife (1.5/4). Hitting a series low, the drama fell 21% from its last original two weeks. At 10 PM, The Mentalist (1.8/5) ended the night for CBS, down 14% from its January 13 show.
Fox kicked off its Sunday comedy block with a Bob’s Burgers (0.8/2) repeat. That was followed with a new episode of The Cleveland Show (1.2/8), which slipped 8% from its last new show two weeks ago. The Simpsons (1.2/3) was even with its January 13 show, while a new Bob’s Burgers (2.0/5) was down 13% from its last original two weeks ago. While the highest-rated entertainment show of the night among the key 18-49 demo, Family Guy (2.8/7) was down 13% from its last original two weeks ago as was American Dad (2.1/5). ABC started off primetime with repeats of America’s Funniest Home Videos (1.8/5) and Once Upon A Time (0.9/2). The new two-hour Hallmark Hall Of Fame: The Makeover (1.1/3) movie cratered 27% down from last year’s January 29th Hallmark Movie: A Smile As Big As The Moon.
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Curious to know Downton Abbey’s numbers….
Yes, so would I. I’m sure that Downton Abbey took potential viewers from The Good Wife in particular. If one is going to watch a soap your might as will watch the best.
Perhaps 60 Minutes was down because many viewers (me included) never know when it is on. So used to football and other sports delaying the show that I thought it would be on later last night. And I wanted to watch it. Think CBS should just move it to 8PM untill all the sports are done with.
The Good Wife was on fire its first two seasons – just about the best drama on broadcast TV. But it lost a lost of momentum in the third season, and has been sluggish and dull of late. I wonder if the show can recover at this point.
Preachy, hypocritical dreck is what goes for “on fire” in your mind?
Ok….
This would have been a great week for ABC to run original programming of its “hit” Sunday lineup, AFHV, OUAT and Revenge. Revenge, particularly could have used this weak night of competition to perhaps get back in the good graces of its core viewing audience and even build an audience of new viewers. ABC is destined to suffer on Sundays until they come to the realization that they have to do something different, especially during the month of January. AFHV is now the only program they have that performs well new or repeat and whether or not NFL games are on tv. I suppose ABC is waiting to run new episodes of its shows against the Superbowl(Kidding- though it’s not out of the realm of possibility for those idiots). In other news, what happened to FOX? They must have had very weak episodes of their animated programs because Family Guy is normally good for a +3.0 rating at the very least. It’s really hard to predict who America will favor once football is gone from Sundays. There’s across the board weakness in everyone’s schedule.
The Good Wife’s main character revealed on last night episode that she is an athiest. While most readers of this blog would not see a problem with that, I think a lot of viewers are going to be turned off and even further decline in viewership.
I’m not surprised The Mentalst was down. It’s a good show,but,there is such inconsistency in its’ scheduling. Now it won’t return until February 17th. Hopefully,it will get into some sort of positive ratings streak once the sports & awards are over.
Does anyone think CBS is trying to kill the Mentalist by moving it to Sunday night, pre-empting it for any other show, having it off the air for several weeks at a time? If Mentalist producers were smart they’d find Red John this season, because they may not have another.
Probably insignificant but SAG awards, shown twice on both TNT and TBS, at 5:00 and 7:00 PST might have had an effect on the Sunday viewing as well. “Downton Abby,” the SAG TV drama ensemble cast winner, obviously has its followers as well.
“The Mentalist” should precede “The Good Wife”.
Maybe Hillary is just overrated and that’s why 60 minutes had disappointing ratings. I’m a liberal democrat and I can see the bull hyping of Hillary as Secretary of State. Most travelled doesn’t mean you were good at your job. The Mali situation is blowback from Hillary’s irresponsible handling of the Arab Spring.
Don’t try to fool anyone there, Sac.
You’re not a liberal Democrat. You’re a right wing shill, trolling Deadline the way you guys do anytime there’s anything even remotely political that comes up. You’re not fooling anyone. Mali isn’t America’s problem and she has done a great job as Secretary. Mali is a French issue and we’re offering support as an ally.
Go back and hug your guns and bible and leave Deadline to the grown ups.
And your facts are all wrong. Mali is a no-one issue, the French have simply stepped in because of a modern-day imperialist nature that is taking rise among the European nations. Also, lad, saying Hilary has done a “great” job is simply the droning of an uninformed fool that watches too much NBC. I can assure you that I know much more about politics than you ever will, of that I can blame my current occupation, and in all actuality the word you are looking for is “transparent.” Continue to babble about the hilarious falsities that you read on a weekly basis in Reuters, while those who do not worship a party simply for the fact that it is the one that they belong to will continue to be the sane ones whose opinions are actually relevant to he current basis of this grand nation.