Prime Time TV Ratings Week November 23-29

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Viewers in millions

1. NFL CBS 23.1
2. Sunday Night Football NBC 16.5
3. 60 Minutes CBS 13.8
4. Football Pre-Game NBC 12.7
5. Masked Singer (Thu) Fox 11.4

6. NCIS CBS 10.2
7. FBI CBS 8.4
8. Football Night in America NBC 7.1
8. The Voice (Mon) NBC 7.1
8. The Voice (Tue) NBC 7.1

11. Dancing with the Stars ABC 6.4
12. I Can See Your Voice (Thu) Fox 6.1
13. FBI: Most Wanted CBS 5.7
14. The Neighborhood (Mon) CBS 5.5
15. Bob Hearts Abishola CBS 4.9

16. Bull CBS 4.7
17. The Bachelorette ABC 4.5
17. Big Sky ABC 4.5
19. The Good Doctor ABC 4.3
20. The Amazing Race (8pm) CBS 4.2

21. All Rise CBS 4.1
22. The Conners ABC 3.9
22. How the Grinch Stole Christmas NBC 3.9
24. The Amazing Race (9pm) CBS 3.8
24. The Neighborhood (Sun) CBS 3.8

24. Young Sheldon (8pm) CBS 3.8
27. The Goldbergs ABC 3.7
28. Minions Holiday Special NBC 3.4
28. S.W.A.T. CBS 3.4
28. Weakest Link (Tue) NBC 3.4

31. Dateline (Fri) NBC 3.2
31. Frosty the Snowman CBS 3.2
31. National Dog Show NBC 3.2
31. Weakest Link (Mon) NBC 3.2
35. American Housewife ABC 3.1

36. Transplant NBC 3.0
37. Movie: Coming to America CBS 2.9
37. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town ABC 2.9
37. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ABC 2.9
40. Young Sheldon (9pm) CBS 2.9

41. B Positive (8:30) CBS 2.8
41. 48 Hours CBS 2.8
41. Masked Singer (Wed) Fox 2.8
41. Blue Bloods CBS 2.7
45. Disney's Prep and Landing (7pm) ABC 2.7

46. Supermarket Sweep ABC 2.6
46. Wonderful World of Disney Magical Holiday ABC 2.6
48. Black-ish ABC 2.5
48. Olaf's Frozen Adventure ABC 2.5
48. SNL Thanksgiving NBC 2.5

51. Disney's Prep and Landing (7:30) ABC 2.4
51. Frosty Returns CBS 2.4
51. 20/20 ABC 2.4
54. B Positive (9:30) CBS 2.3
55. CBS News Sunday Morning CBS 2.2

56. Football ABC 2.1
56. For Life ABC 2.1
56. SNL Prime NBC 2.1
56. Toy Story That Time Forgot ABC 2.1
56. WWE Smackdown Fox 2.1

61. I Can See Your Voice (Wed) Fox 2.0
62. L'Oreal NBC 1.9
62. The Voice (Sat) NBC 1.9
62. The Wall NBC 1.9
65. Card Sharks ABC 1.8

66. L.A.'s Finest Fox 1.7
67. The Simpsons (7pm) Fox 1.6
67. The Simpsons (8pm) Fox 1.6
67. Star Trek: Discovery CBS 1.6
70. Pac 12 Fox 1.4

71. Robbie the Reindeer CBS 1.4
71. The Story of Santa Claus CBS 1.4
73. Bob's Burgers (7:30) Fox 1.2
73. Bob's Burgers (9pm) Fox 1.2
73. Cosmos Fox 1.2

73. Filthy Rich Fox 1.2
73. Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Fox 1.2
78. Family Guy Fox 1.1
79. World's Funniest Animals (9pm) CW 1.0
79. World's Funniest Animals (9:30) CW 1.0

81. Next Fox 0.9
82. Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer CW 0.8
83. Gilmore Girls (Mon) CW 0.5
83. Gilmore Girls (Tue) CW 0.5
83. Gilmore Girls (Wed) CW 0.5

86. Gilmore Girls (Thu) CW 0.4
87. The Outpost CW 0.3
87. Pandora CW 0.3

CW

1..............……79. World's Funniest Animals (9pm) CW 1.0
1..............……79. World's Funniest Animals (9:30) CW 1.0
3...............…82. Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer CW 0.8
4...............……83. Gilmore Girls (Mon) CW 0.5
4................……83. Gilmore Girls (Tue) CW 0.5

4...............……83. Gilmore Girls (Wed) CW 0.5
7...............……86. Gilmore Girls (Thu) CW 0.4
8............……87. The Outpost CW 0.3
8...............……87. Pandora CW 0.3

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I'm saving the numbers now just so I won't lose my work.

I can't do this tomorrow but the numbers for Friday, Saturday and Sunday aren't ready yet. So if you see a number on the left, that's last week. If you don't, that's this week.

I can already make some observations. As low as it was, "The Masked Singer" on Wednesday was dark green with the target audience.

The one CW show I've seen so far was "Gilmore Girls". And the numbers it got made the title of Thursday's episode appropriate: "Gilmore Girls: Fall".

No one can say people don't watch TV on Thanksgiving, but they sure don't watch "Young Sheldon". The numbers for the two Fox shows are phenomenal. No Thursday night football, and I think we know why. But I can give you some other numbers from this site. The CBS football game had 23.4 million viewers. The Fox game had an unheard of 30.3 million. The Macy's Parade, such as it was, had 22 million. And The National Dog Show had 12.3 million when it aired the first time.

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That's it for today for final numbers. I do have preliminary numbers for shows from the other three nights, which I wasn't expecting. I can't provide a number for an entire show in many cases, and it involves a lot of extra work to change preliminary numbers to final ones. I will say The CW gets much better early numbers, but there's no point in posting numbers that will only go down.

It appears "Gilmore Girls" was the only show on The CW for which there are final numbers. And look where it ended up each night.

"Weakest Link" and "Transplant" swapped places on Tuesday. Actually, I don't know which night "Weakest Link" aired on last week.

I don't understand what has happened to CBS Mondays.

And Fox shouldn't wait any longer to find out what's "Next".

On the other hand, "Big Sky" is bringing big numbers.

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I'm going to do something I've never done before. I'm reserving spaces for each show and just not posting a number of viewers since it will be updated later. You can see approximately where each show stood in the preliminary ratings.

Okay, there you are. If you don't see a number on the right, you know that's the approximate preliminary number and when i get a final number, I'll add that and put the show where it belongs.

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Done. The final numbers did not include any of the NBC programs that preceded Sunday night's game, so I used the preliminary numbers. The 7:00 episode of "The Simpsons" also wasn't listed, so I did the same. And when rounded it was tied with the 8:00 episode. Which was new.

"World's Funniest Animals" won the week for The CW. I think these are the best numbers ever for that show. I was going to say they're reruns, but the first one is not labeled that way.

Also, "Disney Prep and Landing" was not an hour. The final numbers showed 2 30-minute episodes. I seem to recall one is the sequel to the other.

Most shows improved on their preliminary numbers so I'm glad I didn't use those when I didn't have to.