Sunday TV Ratings 10/25/20: 60 Minutes Soars while Scream Stumbles Behind It, ABC Game Shows Slip, World Series Steady (UPDATED)

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