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Ranking Harris and Trump Campaign TV Appearances by Ratings

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Someday within the subsequent 36 to 96 hours, the USA will know who its forty seventh president shall be. Polls between Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, and former Republican President Donald Trump, are shut, and each have been criss-crossing key states to make last appeals to voters.

What has largely stopped, nonetheless, are scheduled TV appearances by both. TV information shops are nonetheless protecting speeches and rallies, however — other than a Harris cameo on Saturday Night time Dwell on Nov. 2 (which was adopted by NBC giving Trump equal time in two sporting occasions the next day, per FCC guidelines) — Harris and Trump have focused on in-person occasions moderately than TV studios up to now two weeks.

Previous to that, nonetheless, each candidates took half in quite a lot of media interviews and city halls with voters, together with one debate (plus one other for vice presidential nominees Tim Walz and J.D. Vance). Not one of the media sit-downs got here anyplace near the debates, however a number of of them gathered sizable audiences of their very own. Under is a breakdown of the most important amongst them within the last two months of the marketing campaign.

All scores figures beneath are same-day tallies from Nielsen from Aug. 26-Nov. 2 and embrace preliminary airings solely in order to check like to love as a lot as potential. The occasions beneath embrace deliberate appearances solely, not information protection of marketing campaign occasions.

Debates

Harris and Trump, Sept. 10: A June debate between Trump and President Joe Biden was watched by 51.27 million viewers, on the low aspect for a debate. Biden’s poor efficiency led to elevated requires him to finish his re-election marketing campaign, which he did in July. He endorsed Harris to steer the ticket, and Democrats fell in behind her. The primary — and solely, because it turned out — debate between Harris and Trump drew 67.14 million viewers throughout 17 broadcast and cable shops, above the historic common of 59.2 million for such telecasts.

Walz and Vance, Oct. 1: The 2 nominees for vp confronted each other in a CBS Information-produced debate that delivered 43.15 million viewers on 15 networks. That’s about 7 p.c beneath the common for previous VP debates — and 25 p.c beneath the viewers for then-Vice President Mike Pence and Harris in 2020.

Single Candidate Appearances

Listed below are the eight greatest interview and city corridor appearances, ranked in descending order.

Particular Report With Bret Baier (Harris), Oct. 16: The vp’s interview with Fox Information anchor Baier drew the most important viewers of any marketing campaign interview after the tip of the Democratic Nationwide Conference. The half-hour interview averaged about 7.8 million viewers, with Baier’s full present that night time coming in at 6.7 million — greater than twice its common common.

The First Interview: Harris & Walz, Aug. 29: CNN’s interview with Harris and Walz per week after the Democratic conference — at a time when the media narrative was that Harris didn’t do sufficient media interviews — introduced in 6.31 million viewers, the channel’s largest viewers for the reason that June debate (which it produced).

60 Minutes (Harris), Oct. 7: The long-running CBS Information program invited each Harris and Trump for interviews, however the latter dropped out (and later complained about the best way 60 Minutes edited Harris’ section). Airing on a Monday as an alternative of its common Sunday spot, the episode averaged 5.7 million viewers for the hour, and barely extra (5.97 million) for its first half when the interview with the vp aired.

Gutfeld! (Trump), Sept. 18: Trump’s first look on Greg Gutfeld’s late night-in-spirit (however primetime by definition, because it airs at 10 p.m. ET) Fox Information present introduced in 4.89 million viewers, the most important viewers within the present’s nine-year historical past.

Hannity (Trump), Sept. 4: A city corridor with the Republican nominee on Sean Hannity’s Fox Information present drew 4.42 million viewers, making it the most important of a number of city corridor applications within the post-convention interval.

CNN City Corridor (Harris), Oct. 23: The vp’s look with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and Pennsylvania voters got here in at 3.33 million viewers.

The View (Harris), Oct. 8, and Fox Information City Corridor with Harris Faulkner (Trump), Oct. 16: Each exhibits aired within the late morning on their respective dates, and each averaged about 3.1 million viewers.

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World Series 2024 TV Ratings Are the Best in 7 Years

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The 2024 World Sequence goes within the books as essentially the most watched Fall Basic since 2017.

The Los Angeles Dodgers accomplished their five-game sequence win over the New York Yankees with 7-6 win Wednesday. Fox Sports activities shops (the published community, Fox Deportes and streaming companies) averaged 18.6 million viewers for the sport, additionally a seven-year excessive for a World Sequence recreation 5. The primary Fox broadcast drew 18.15 million viewers.

The sequence as a complete averaged 15.81 million viewers throughout all platforms, making it the largest World Sequence because the Houston Astros’ seven-game victory over the Dodgers in 2017 averaged 18.93 million. This yr’s sequence delivered the fourth largest viewers for Main League Baseball’s championship since 2010, trailing solely the 2016 (22.85 million viewers), 2017 and 2011 (16.52 million) editions. All three of these sequence went a full seven video games.

The 2024 World Sequence additionally posted big features over final yr, which sunk to an all-time low of 9.11 million viewers per recreation. The 15.81 million viewers this yr represents an almost 74 % enhance yr to yr.

Wednesday’s deciding recreation peaked with 21.27 million viewers from 11:15-11:30 p.m. ET, and the complete telecast was up by 58 % over final yr’s recreation 5 (11.48 million viewers), which was additionally a clincher.

The large features for the World Sequence — which featured marquee groups from the nation’s two largest media markets — construct on a robust postseason for MLB. The three earlier rounds of the playoffs improved by about 17 % over 2023.

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Disney Back at No. 1 Among TV Distributors in September 2024

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The beginning of soccer season was a boon to a number of media firms in September — together with Disney, which as soon as once more claimed the No. 1 spot in Nielsen‘s rankings of TV distributors.

Disney shops accounted for 11.3 % of all TV use in the US for Nielsen’s September measurement interval (which ran from Aug. 26-Sept. 29). That’s up from 9.5 % in August and marks the corporate’s ninth time within the high spot within the 11 months Nielsen has shared distributor information.

Big good points for ESPN and ESPN2 — each of which greater than doubled their share of TV viewing from August, because of the beginning of the school soccer and NFL seasons — and a 25 % bump from ABC drove Disney’s good points. Different NFL and school soccer media companions additionally grew month to month: Paramount (8.2 % of TV use) and Fox (7.3 %) every including greater than some extent to their August totals and Amazon (3.7 %) rising by half some extent.

NBCUniversal, which led August’s rankings because of the Summer season Olympics, dropped again to 3rd place with 9.3 % of TV use, in keeping with its non-Olympic month common. YouTube held regular in second place with 10.6 % of TV use. The 14 firms listed within the distributor rankings collectively had about 73 % of all TV use within the U.S. for September, just like earlier months.

Nielsen’s TV distributor rankings for September are beneath.

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American Music Awards Viewership Up 54% on CBS Over Previous Edition

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The American Music Awards got here again in a giant approach.

The fiftieth anniversary particular of the performance-filled occasion averaged greater than 6 million viewers in its Oct. 6 broadcast on CBS.

That’s a 54 p.c enhance over the earlier version of the AMAs, which final aired in 2022 on ABC. That marks the biggest year-over-year development of a music particular or award present on TV this 12 months. It additionally stands because the second-most-watched music awards present within the U.S. in 2024 and the most-watched leisure program on CBS in October to date.

The particular additionally was the most-watched leisure program on Oct. 6, behind solely the NFL. It additionally beat out different main sports activities protection together with the MLB Playoffs and NASCAR. 

Dick Clark Productions additionally stated that the particular can be the most-streamed AMAs within the present’s historical past and has notched 65 million views throughout social media platforms because it aired.

The star-studded particular celebrated 50 years of music historical past, that includes appearances by Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Hudson, Carrie Underwood, Inexperienced Day, Brad Paisley, Chaka Khan, Sheila E., Gladys Knight, Kane Brown, Nelly, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, RAYE, Stray Children, AJ McLean, Jimmy Kimmel, Kate Hudson, Lance Bass, Reba McEntire, Samuel L. Jackson and Smokey Robinson. 

The American Music Awards is about to return in 2025, airing stay on CBS from Las Vegas over Memorial Day Weekend. The 2025 version will have a good time its “American roots” and paying tribute to U.S. veterans along with handing out awards, that are voted on by followers.

The American Music Awards was created by Dick Clark Productions. DCP is owned by Penske Media Company, The Hollywood Reporter’s dad or mum firm, in a subsidiary three way partnership between Penske Media and Eldridge.

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Streaming Ratings Sept. 9-15, 2024

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The highest two streaming titles from the primary week of September held their spots within the second week — and each improved on their debut showings.

Netflix’s restricted collection The Good Couple and its film Insurgent Ridge ranked first and second total on Nielsen’s streaming charts for the week of Sept. 9-15, simply as they did over the prior seven days. The Good Couple drew 1.97 billion minutes of viewing time (up a bit from 1.91 bilion), and Insurgent Ridge grew to 1.28 billion minutes from 1.11 billion for its premiere week.

Additionally displaying vital development: Hulu’s unscripted present The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which improved by 78 p.c week to week and broke into the general prime 10 with 729 million minutes of viewing. Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy (747 million minutes) fell off some after two weeks over 1 billion minutes. Emily in Paris (708 million) moved again into the rankings with the discharge of the second half of its fourth season.

Netflix’s doc collection Into the Hearth: The Misplaced Daughter was the most important debut of the week, coming in with 485 million minutes of watch time.

Nielsen’s streaming rankings cowl viewing on TV units solely and don’t embody minutes watched on computer systems or cellular gadgets. The rankings solely measure U.S. audiences, not these in different international locations. The highest streaming titles for Sept. 9-15, 2024, are beneath.

General

1. The Good Couple (Netflix), 1.97 billion minutes considered
2. Insurgent Ridge (Netflix), 1.28 billion
3. Bluey (Disney+), 870 million
4. Household Man (Hulu), 860 million
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy (Prime Video), 747 million
6. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (Hulu), 729 million
7. Emily in Paris (Netflix), 708 million
8. Bob’s Burgers (Hulu), 695 million
9. Gray’s Anatomy (Hulu/Netflix), 670 million
10. Jail Break (Hulu/Netflix), 606 million

Authentic Sequence

1. The Good Couple, 1.97 billion minutes
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy, 747 million
3. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, 729 million
4. Emily in Paris, 708 million
5. Into the Hearth: The Misplaced Daughter (Netflix), 485 million
6. Solely Murders within the Constructing (Hulu), 479 million
7. Outlast (Netflix), 461 million
8. Promoting Sundown (Netflix), 458 million
9. Kaos (Netflix), 393 million
10. Futurama (Hulu), 322 million

Acquired Sequence

1. Bluey, 870 million minutes
2. Household Man, 860 million
3. Bob’s Burgers, 695 million
4. Gray’s Anatomy, 670 million
5. Jail Break, 606 million
6. Gilmore Women (Netflix), 578 million
7. A Discovery of Witches (Netflix), 567 million
8. Regulation & Order: SVU (Hulu/Peacock), 543 million
9. The Huge Bang Concept (Max), 513 million
10. Prison Minds (Hulu/Paramount+), 507 million

Films

1. Insurgent Ridge, 1.28 billion minutes
2. Uglies (Netflix), 562 million
3. Fringe of Tomorrow (Netflix), 413 million
4. Beetlejuice (Max), 240 million
5. The Deliverance (Netflix), 216 million
6. Sonic the Hedgehog (Netflix/Paramount+), 212 million
7. Civil Conflict (2024) (Max), 199 million
8. The Fall Man (Peacock), 187 million
9. Black Mass (Netflix), 180 million
10. The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film (Netflix), 177 million

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‘The Voice,’ NFL Help NBC Win Premiere Week Ratings

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A powerful Sunday Evening Soccer sport and good showings from a number of of its long-running sequence helped NBC declare the largest viewers for week one of many 2024-25 season.

The community averaged 6.2 million viewers in primetime for the week of Sept. 23-29, in response to same-day Nielsen figures (which don’t embrace streaming or different delayed viewing). NBC has topped the opening week of the season in complete viewers for six straight years and for 13 in a row amongst adults 18-49.

ABC completed second for the week with 5.4 million viewers, aided by two huge sports activities telecasts (Monday Evening Soccer and its Saturday primetime faculty soccer sport) adopted by CBS (3.3 million) and Fox (1.8 million).

There’s a little bit of a caveat right here, nevertheless, in that CBS is ready till mid-October to roll out a lot of its lineup. Sunday Evening Soccer would seemingly hold NBC on high anyway — see the six-year premiere week profitable streak, above — however the margins would seemingly be smaller. CBS has received 16 straight September-to-Might seasons in complete viewers.

Even with out the NFL, NBC nonetheless ended up on high of premiere week: Measuring simply leisure programming, it averaged 4.2 million viewers, once more main CBS (2.9 million), ABC (2.8 million) and Fox (1.8 million). NBC had six of the ten most-watched non-sports exhibits of the week, led by season premieres of The Voice (5.96 million viewers) and Chicago Hearth (5.6 million) and the season finale of America’s Obtained Expertise (5.46 million), which ranked second, third and fourth for the week. CBS’ 60 Minutes was first with 9.57 million viewers.

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‘SNL’ Season 50 Premiere Scores 4-Year Ratings High

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Saturday Night time Stay started its milestone fiftieth season with a large rankings bump.

The season premiere, hosted by Hacks Emmy winner Jean Good, delivered 5.3 million viewers, in accordance with same-day rankings from Nielsen (which don’t embody streaming). That’s one of the best begin for an SNL season since 2020 and a 15 % enchancment over the 4.6 million viewers who tuned in for final 12 months’s premiere.

The premiere featured a number of visitor appearances, together with three by former castmembers: Maya Rudolph returned as Vice President Kamala Harris, Andy Samberg performed Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, and Dana Carvey portrayed President Joe Biden. Comic Jim Gaffigan additionally confirmed as much as play Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Harris’ VP nominee, whereas present common James Austin Johnson and Bowen Yang performed the Republican nominees for president and vice chairman, Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance.

The 5.3 million viewers additionally makes SNL probably the most watched leisure applications of the 2024-25 season’s first week, primarily based on same-day figures. Pending outcomes for Sunday’s primetime, it trails solely three different exhibits, all on NBC: The Voice (5.96 million viewers), Chicago Fireplace (5.6 million) and Chicago Med (5.46 million).

SNL usually will get a rankings enhance in election years — the season 46 premiere in 2020 introduced in additional than 8 million viewers, which was additionally a four-year excessive on the time.

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Streaming Ratings Aug. 26-Sept. 1, 2024

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The second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy opened to massive viewing numbers in america — simply not as massive as its first season.

The Prime Video collection amassed 1.02 billion minutes of viewing in america for the week of Aug. 26-Sept. 1, good for first place amongst authentic collection and second amongst all titles in Nielsen’s streaming rankings. Season two premiered on Aug. 29 with three episodes, and Nielsen says about 70 p.c of the present’s weekly complete was for these three, with the rest dedicated to season one. (Viewing totals on the rankings service’s charts cowl all episodes of a collection.)

The 1.02 billion minutes is down about 19 p.c from season one’s opening week (1.25 billion) in August 2022. The Rings of Energy ranks third amongst Prime Video collection U.S. opening weeks this yr behind Fallout (2.9 billion minutes) and The Boys (1.19 billion); Reacher’s second season logged 1.69 billion minutes for its debut in December 2023.

Amazon has mentioned 40 million folks worldwide watched the season’s first three episodes over 11 days; these Nielsen rankings cowl solely 4 days of launch. The corporate additionally says that america accounts for less than about 30 p.c of The Rings of Energy’s world viewers.

Jail Break spent a fourth consecutive week as the highest total title with 1.19 billion minutes of viewing on Netflix and Hulu. AMC’s streaming cope with Netflix continued to pay dividends, with 4 reveals — A Discovery of Witches (915 million minutes), Darkish Winds (890 million), The Strolling Lifeless (688 million, charting for the primary time in 18 months) and Preacher (628 million) among the many high 10 library collection.

Netflix’s Worst Ex Ever (830 million minutes of watch time) was the highest debut after The Rings of Energy. Greek mythology-based Kaos (511 million minutes) additionally made its first look after premiering Aug. 29, and Hulu’s Solely Murders within the Constructing (460 million) returned with the beginning of its fourth season.

Nielsen’s streaming rankings cowl viewing on TV units solely and don’t embody minutes watched on computer systems or cell units. The rankings solely measure U.S. audiences, not these in different nations. The highest streaming titles for Aug. 26-Sept. 1, 2024, are under.

General

1. Jail Break (Hulu/Netflix), 1.19 billion minutes considered
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy (Prime Video), 1.02 billion
3. Household Man (Hulu), 1.01 billion
4. A Discovery of Witches (Netflix), 915 million
5. The Accident (Netflix), 891 million
6. Darkish Winds (Netflix), 890 million
7. Bluey (Disney+), 880 million
8. Worst Ex Ever (Netflix), 830 million
9. Gray’s Anatomy (Hulu/Netflix), 742
10. Bob’s Burgers (Hulu), 693 million

Authentic Collection

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy, 1.02 billion minutes
2. The Accident, 891 million
3. Worst Ex Ever, 830 million
4. Kaos (Netflix), 511 million
5. Solely Murders within the Constructing (Hulu), 460 million
6. The Umbrella Academy (Netflix), 393 million
7. Futurama (Hulu), 360 million
8. Emily in Paris (Netflix), 348 million
9. Love Is Blind: UK (Netflix), 321 million
10. Love Island (Hulu/Netflix/Peacock), 296 million

Acquired Collection

1. Jail Break, 1.19 billion minutes
2. Household Man, 1.01 billion
3. A Discovery of Witches, 915 million
4. Darkish Winds, 890 million
5. Bluey, 860 million
6. Gray’s Anatomy, 742 million
7. Bob’s Burgers, 693 million
8. The Strolling Lifeless (Netflix), 688 million
9. Dexter (Netflix/Paramount+), 655 million
10. Preacher (Netflix), 628 million

Motion pictures

1. The Deliverance (Netflix), 635 million
2. The Union (2024) (Netflix), 548 million
3. Migration (Netflix), 455 million
4. The Fall Man (Peacock), 384 million
5. Incoming (Netflix), 353 million
6. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (Max), 277 million
7. A Quiet Place: Day One (Paramount+), 248 million
8. Logan Fortunate (Netflix), 228 million
9. Trolls Band Collectively (Netflix), 214 million
10. Untold: Signal Stealer (Netflix), 212 million

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‘Matlock’ Premiere Ratings Are Strong for CBS

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CBS’ replace on Matlock introduced in a robust viewers for its premiere Sunday evening.

The authorized drama starring Kathy Bates — which shares a reputation and primary premise with the Eighties-90s sequence starring Andy Griffith, however not a lot else — introduced in 7.73 million viewers for its debut. Excluding reveals that debuted after the Tremendous Bowl, that’s the biggest sequence premiere viewers for a CBS present in additional than 5 years (since The Code adopted an NCIS episode in April 2019).

The 7.73 million viewers additionally would have ranked within the prime 5 amongst CBS’ same-day audiences for scripted reveals final season (once more, not together with the post-Tremendous Bowl premiere for Tracker).

Matlock turned within the largest same-day viewers among the many handful of community reveals that had season or sequence premieres final week (the Nielsen-measured 2024-25 season formally begins Monday). Among the many others, ABC’s Dancing With the Stars drew the largest complete viewers (4.97 million viewers), a bit of forward of Survivor (4.72 million) on CBS. Fox’s drama Rescue: Hello-Surf — which adopted an NFL doubleheader Sunday — premiered to 4.7 million viewers, primarily based on Nielsen’s quick nationwide scores (and would possibly alter some within the last numbers, which is able to arrive Tuesday).

Excessive Potential adopted DWTS on ABC Sept. 17 with 3.59 million viewers, an excellent bit forward of The Good Physician’s same-day common (2.48 million) within the 10 p.m. Tuesday spot final spring.

Rescue: Hello-Surf led final week’s premieres with a 1.1 score amongst adults 18-49 — equal to about 1.48 million viewers in that age vary — with an help from the NFL lead-in; that’s the very best demographic score for a fall drama sequence premiere since CBS’ God Friended Me in 2018. DWTS and Survivor every posted a 0.73 (about 980,000 viewers) in the important thing ad-sales demographic.

Additionally over the weekend, The CW’s first broadcast of NASCAR’s Xfinity Collection averaged 906,000 viewers Friday evening, the community’s greatest displaying in eight months.

Elsewhere, The Penguin pulled in 5.3 million cross-platform viewers over its first 4 days on HBO and Max. That’s forward of the newest season premieres for each Succession (4.9 million viewers) and The White Lotus (4.1 million) over the identical size of time — although each of them premiered on a Sunday evening, and The Penguin debuted on a Thursday.

Sept. 23, 2:47 p.m. Up to date with scores for Rescue: Hello-Surf on Fox and the NASCAR Xfinity Collection on The CW.

Sept. 23, 3:26 p.m. Up to date with Penguin scores.

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Emmys 2024 TV Ratings Grow by More than 50 Percent

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Returning to their typical September berth helped give an enormous enhance to the TV scores for the Emmy Awards.

Sunday’s present, hosted by Eugene and Dan Levy on ABC, averaged 6.87 viewers in quick nationwide scores from Nielsen, together with out of residence viewing. That’s a 54 p.c leap over the delayed 2023 awards, which pulled in 4.46 million viewers — an all-time low for the awards (at the least within the 35 to 40 years of whole viewer data). The 2023 Emmys aired on Fox in January, 4 months later than typical after final 12 months’s writers and actors strikes.

Sunday’s broadcast additionally drew a 1.02 score amongst adults 18-49, a 17 p.c enchancment over final 12 months’s low.

The Emmys have struggled within the scores even earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic produced lows throughout the board for awards reveals. Whereas the Oscars, Grammys and Golden Globes have since rebounded some since then (although to not their former heights), the Emmys telecast hasn’t averaged greater than 8 million viewers since 2018 and has solely topped 7 million as soon as since then, on CBS in 2021. The present averaged 11.19 million viewers within the 4 years from 2015-18.

The advance for the Emmys on Sunday stops a run of two consecutive ceremonies (on NBC in 2022 and Fox in January) the place the awards drew an all-time low in each whole viewers and the adults 18-49 demographic. Each of these reveals aired on Monday nights reverse larger-than-usual NFL audiences on ABC; this 12 months’s telecast additionally ran reverse an recreation on NBC’s Sunday Evening Soccer, but it surely was a matchup (Houston vs. Chicago) that isn’t more likely to entice an outsized viewers. Scores for SNF shall be accessible Tuesday.

The most important winners on the Emmys, the FX-produced Shogun and The Bear, have been additionally pretty fashionable. The previous spent 10 weeks amongst Nielsen’s hottest streaming reveals (along with airing on FX’s cable channel). Each The Bear’s second season (for which it was honored at these Emmys) final 12 months and the third version this summer season had multi-week runs within the rankings as properly.

Elsewhere Sunday, the 57th season of CBS’ 60 Minutes started with 10.2 million viewers (based mostly on preliminary Nielsens) following an NFL doubleheader. That determine will probably transfer up just a little within the remaining same-day scores, however are available behind the 11.8 million viewers who watched final season’s debut.