Preliminary Analysis: Despite President Trump's '60 Minutes' interview with Lesley Stahl leaking days beforehand, the CBS newsmagazine posted a mammoth 2.4 A18-49 rating and soared to a new season high by a wide margin. Although it did have substantial help from its 'NFL Overrun' (3.6) lead-in, 'Minutes' retained a much larger portion of the football audience than usual. A repeat of comedy 'The Neighborhood' (1.1) was the direct lead-out to '60 Minutes' and posted a number higher than 95% of its original broadcasts from fall 2019 and spring 2020. There was significant ratings erosion from there as a broadcast of the 1996 film 'Scream' (0.4) lost most of the 'Neighborhood' audience at 9pm.
ABC's 'Supermarket Sweep' (0.8) shed two-tenths from last week's premiere even as 7pm lead-in 'AFV' (0.7) inched up from its week-ago debut. This still puts 'Sweep' in respectable territory but it'll have to stop its slide if it wants to continue being a valuable player. 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' (0.5) and 'Card Sharks' (0.3) similarly lost a tenth apiece from their last outings. NBC won the night overall with its showing of the 'Buccaneers v Raiders' NFL game (3.6) alongside 'Football Night in America' (1.8/3.0). Fox had game 5 of the 'World Series' (1.7) and a World Series pregame (1.8). The game was steady with game 4 from Saturday. The CW's 'Pandora' (0.1) held even and led into encores of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' (0.1/0.1).
Finals Update: Supermarket Sweep (+0.1), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (+0.1), NFL Overrun (+2.5), 60 Minutes (+0.1), Sunday Night Football (+0.7) and World Series Game 5 (+0.9) adjusted up. Football Night In America (-0.4, -0.8), Pandora (-0.1), World Series Pregame (-0.8) and the repeat of The Neighborhood (-0.4) adjusted down.
Time | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (mil) | Channel |
7 PM | NFL Overrun | 6.1/35 | 22.90 | CBS |
| Football Night In America | 1.4/8 | 4.59 | NBC |
| World Series Pregame | 1.0/6 | 3.71 | Fox |
| America's Funniest Home Videos | 0.7/4 | 4.78 | ABC |
7:30 PM | 60 Minutes | 2.5/13 | 17.40 | CBS |
8 PM | Football Night In America | 2.2/13 | 7.22 | NBC |
| 2020 World Series Game 5 | 2.6/14 | 10.06 | Fox |
| Supermarket Sweep | 0.9/5 | 3.68 | ABC |
| Pandora | 0.0/0 | 0.28 | The CW |
8:30 PM | NFL: Buccaneers v. Raiders | 4.3/24 | 14.31 | NBC |
| The Neighborhood (R) | 0.7/4 | 4.74 | CBS |
9 PM | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | 0.6/3 | 3.56 | ABC |
| Scream | 0.4/2 | 1.80 | CBS |
| Whose Line Is It Anyway? (R) | 0.1/0 | 0.43 | The CW |
9:30 PM | Whose Line Is It Anyway? (R) | 0.1/1 | 0.59 | The CW |
10 PM | Card Sharks | 0.3/2 | 2.31 | ABC |
Key:(R) = repeat
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