Saturday TV Ratings 1/30/21: Saturday Night Live Returns Steady, NBA Game Weaker but Still Leads Primetime (UPDATED)

Preliminary Analysis: ABC beat all other 8-10 programs with its broadcast of the 'Lakers v. Celtics' NBA game (0.5). The latter led out of a lower-rated 'NBA Countdown' special (0.3). NBC wasn't far behind with repeats of 'Ellen's Game of Games' (0.3), 'Law & Order: SVU' (0.4), and 'SNL Vintage' (0.4). The original episode of 'SNL' at 11:30 posted a 1.44 A18-49 rating, on-par with its winter finale (1.4). CBS had a rerun of 'NCIS: New Orleans' (0.2) and a sturdy pair of '48 Hours' (0.3/0.4), one an encore and one original. Fox got a middling number out of 'Boxing' (0.3).

Finals Update: NBA: Lakers v. Celtics (+0.3) and PBC Boxing (+0.1) adjusted up. The repeats of Ellen's Game of Games (-0.1), Law & Order: SVU (-0.2) adjusted down.

Time	Show	18-49 Rating/Share	Viewers (mil)	Channel
8 PM	Boxing	0.38/3	1.61	Fox
	NBA Countdown	0.34/2	1.74	ABC
	Ellen's Game of Games (R)	0.24/2	1.63	NBC
	NCIS: New Orleans (R)	0.23/2	2.40	CBS
8:30 PM	NBA: Lakers v. Celtics	0.81/6	2.74	ABC
9 PM	48 Hours (R)	0.31/2	2.61	CBS
	Law & Order: SVU (R)	0.18/2	1.28	NBC
10 PM	SNL Vintage	0.38/3	2.08	NBC
	48 Hours	0.38/3	3.20	CBS

11:30 PM	Saturday Night Live	1.44/12	6.69	NBC