Prime Time TV Ratings Week September 28-October 4 .

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Viewers in millions

1. NFL CBS 18.6
2. Sunday Night Football NBC 15.1
3. Presidential Debate ABC 12.6
4. 60 Minutes (7:42) CBS 10.8
5. NFL Preview NBC 9.9

6. Presidential Debate NBC 9.7
7. Presidential Debate Analysis ABC 8.7
8. Football Night in America (7:52) NBC 7.5
9. NBA Finals (Wed) ABC 7.4
10. Dancing with the Stars ABC 6.9

10. Masked Singer (Wed) Fox 6.9
10. Presidential Debate Analysis NBC 6.9
13. NBA Finals (Fri) ABC 6.6
14. Presidential Debate CBS 6.4
15. NBA Finals (Sun) ABC 5.9

15. Weakest Link (Tue) NBC 5.9
17. Trump v. Biden ABC 5.7
18. 60 Minutes (8:42) CBS 5.4
18. Presidential Debate Fox 5.4
20. Presidential Debate Analysis CBS 4.9

21. Celebrity Family Feud ABC 4.8
22. I Can See Your Voice (Wed) Fox 4.5
23. Big Brother (Wed) CBS 4.3
23. Big Brother (Thu) CBS 4.3
25. Presidential Debate Analysis Fox 4.2

26. Football Night in America (7:30) NBC 4.0
27. Emergency Call ABC 3.9
28. Football ABC 3.7
29. The Greatest #AtHome Videos CBS 3.6
30. Press Your Luck ABC 3.5

31. The Neighborhood CBS 3.4
32. Blue Bloods CBS 3.2
33. 48 Hours (Sat) CBS 3.1
33. Match Game ABC 3.1
33. Undercover Boss CBS 3.1

36. Dateline (Thu) NBC 3.0
36. The Wall (Thu) NBC 3.0
38. NHL Stanley Cup Finals NBC 2.9
38. Young Sheldon CBS 2.9
40. NBA Countdown (Wed) ABC 2.7

41. Ellen's Game of Games (Wed 8pm) NBC 2.5
41. Jimmy Kimmel Live (Wed) ABC 2.5
41. Love Island (Tue) CBS 2.5
41. News special NBC 2.5
45. Crimetime (8pm) CBS 2.4

45. Crimetime (9pm) CBS 2.4
45. Jimmy Kimmel Live (Fri) ABC 2.4
45. L.A.'s Finest Fox 2.4
49. Movie: Old School CBS 2.3
49. SNL Prime NBC 2.3

51. Black-ish ABC 2.2
51. Ellen's Game of Games (Wed 9pm) NBC 2.2
51. Friday Night SmackDown Fox 2.2
51. NBA Countdown (Fri) ABC 2.2
55. Filthy Rich Fox 2.1

55. Love Island (Wed) CBS 2.1
57. American Ninja Warrior (Fri) NBC 2.0
57. 48 Hours (Wed) CBS 2.0
57. NBA Countdown (Sun) ABC 2.0
57. Weakest Link (Wed) NBC 2.0

61. Cosmos Fox 1.8
61. Love Island (Mon) CBS 1.8
63. Masked Singer (Thu) Fox 1.7
63. Star Trek: Discovery CBS 1.7
65. I Can See Your Voice (Sun) Fox 1.6

65. The Wall (Sat) NBC 1.6
67. Ellen's Game of Games (Sat) NBC 1.5
67. The Simpsons Fox 1.5
69. Family Guy (Sun) Fox 1.4
69. Manhunt CBS 1.4

71. Let's Be Real Fox 1.3
72. Bob's Burgers Fox 1.1
72. Masked Singer (Sat) Fox 1.1
74. Bless the Harts Fox 1.0
74. I Can See Your Voice (Sat) Fox 1.0

76. Whose Line Is It Anyway? (8pm) CW 0.9
76. Whose Line Is It Anyway? (8:30) CW 0.9
78. Family Guy (Thu) Fox 0.8
79. World's Funniest Animals (9pm) CW 0.7
79. World's Funniest Animals (9:30) CW 0.7

81. The 100 CW 0.6
81. Penn & Teller: Fool Us (Thu) CW 0.6
83. iHeartRadio Music Festival CW 0.5
83. Masters of Illusion (8pm) CW 0.5
83. Masters of Illusion (8:30) CW 0.5

83. Penn & Teller: Fool Us (Wed) CW 0.5
87. Pandora CW 0.3
87. Supernatural CW 0.3
87. Tell Me a Story CW 0.3

CW

1............……76. Whose Line Is It Anyway? (8pm) CW 0.9
1............……76. Whose Line Is It Anyway? (8:30) CW 0.9
3.............……79. World's Funniest Animals (9pm) CW 0.7
3.............……79. World's Funniest Animals (9:30) CW 0.7
5.............……81. The 100 CW 0.6

5...........……81. Penn & Teller: Fool Us (Thu) CW 0.6
7...........……83. iHeartRadio Music Festival CW 0.5
7..............……83. Masters of Illusion (8pm) CW 0.5
7..............……83. Masters of Illusion (8:30) CW 0.5
7...........……83. Penn & Teller: Fool Us (Wed) CW 0.5

11.............……87. Pandora CW 0.3
11............……87. Supernatural CW 0.3
11.............…87. Tell Me a Story CW 0.3

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I'm not finished but I lost all my work in the middle recently and I'm not taking any chances.

Except for the top two (and the CBS number is for the entire game, not the last 42 minutes) if you see a number on the left, it's last week's.

I can already say this. Someone had a good idea not showing three different football preview shows on NBC, especially if the first two had really low numbers. Now someone has decided not to bother with the first half-hour but why do they need three different preview shows?

Also, something weird happened on Thursday. I don't know what B means and they don't explain it. If the number is shown for 10:00, then that's what I show, although it could mean just the first eight minutes. It doesn't mean anything to me if the number falls so much the color changes eight minutes later.

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This has been one weird week, and the numbers will require some explanation. I didn't call each network's coverage of the debate what the site did. There were different names. And the hour before the debate ABC had something called "Trump v. Biden". For each network there was a number for the debate itself and for what came after, which on ABC was "analysis". I assume Fox aired Fox News coverage. Fox News itself, 17.8 and 12.6 for analysis. For CNN, 8.3 and 8.1. For MSNBC, 7.2 and 7.0. These numbers are edited because I forgot that on this site, target audience is all that counts and you have to go to the charts for total numbers.

"Whose Line" did amazingly well on Tuesday but The CW didn't do so well otherwise.

Wow, what a week for sports. All we needed was baseball. Last week we had that too.

"L.A."'s aren't the finest anymore and "Filthy Rich" went bankrupt. And of course Sunday nights are always bad for Fox when they don't have the late game. Though the benefit didn't last very long last week.

NBC had something called "NBC News Special" so I just called it that.