Sunday Ratings (04/10): The Good Wife's Return Does Good, Football Leads the Game, Blood & Oil Is Bleeding

Time	Show Name	Network	A 18-49 Rating	Last Week’s 18-49
7	NFL	FOX	6.5	5.7 (CBS)
	Football Night in America	NBC	2.0	2.9
	60 Minutes	CBS	1.6	2.5 (7:30)
	The Muppets (R)	ABC	0.5	0.7 (OUAT Special)
7:30	The OT	FOX	4.2	-
	Football Night in America	NBC	3.7	2.9
	60 Minutes	CBS	1.4	2.5 (7:30)
	The Muppets (R)	ABC	0.8	0.7 (OUAT Special)
8	Pregame	NBC	6.2	5.0
	The Simpsons	FOX	2.6	1.5
	Once Upon a Time	ABC	1.8	1.8
	Madam Secretary	CBS	1.6	1.0 (LY)
8:30	Sunday Night Football	NBC	8.1	6.6
	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	FOX	1.9	1.5
	Once Upon a Time	ABC	1.8	1.8
	Madam Secretary	CBS	1.3	1.0 (LY)
9	Sunday Night Football	NBC	8.1	6.8
	Family Guy	FOX	1.7	1.5
	The Good Wife	CBS	1.3	1.2 (LY)
	Blood & Oil	ABC	1.3	1.4
9:30	Sunday Night Football	NBC	7.5	6.8
	Last Man on Earth	FOX	1.5	1.4
	The Good Wife	CBS	1.2	1.2 (LY)
	Blood & Oil	ABC	1.2	1.4
10	Sunday Night Football	CBS	7.4	6.2
	Quantico	ABC	1.9	1.9
	CSI: Cyber	CBS	1.1	1.2 (LY)
10:30	Sunday Night Football	NBC	7.1	6.2
	Quantico	ABC	1.8	1.9
	CSI: Cyber	CBS	1.0	1.2 (LY)

(R): Rerun
(LY): The numbers are from last year's finale
Please note that last year's numbers are taken from the whole hour statistics, not the half-hours.

ABC did very well last night, all of its shows except Blood & Oil being stable. Once Upon a Time kept the 1.8 it had last week and stayed stable during the hour. The same with Quantico, which obtained a 1.9 again but was down slightly in the last half-hour. Nonetheless, it's quite impressive for a new show to obtain the same rating it had on its premiere week. The weakness of the night is definitely Blood & Oil, down two tenths from its already deceiving premiere week score.

CBS did a great performance too, especially for Madam Secretary, up five tenths compared to last year's finale, but also down five tenths when compared to its series premiere. Nothing to be ashamed of, though. The Good Wife stayed quite stable, keeping its last year's finale score of 1.2, and down slightly from last season's premiere which obtained a 1.4. The last show of the CSI franchise continues its downfall, ending the night with a 1.0.

NBC, of course, leads the night with football. Nothing new here.

FOX's comedies are boosted by football this week. But it's way down from last year's premieres! Compared to those numbers, The Simpsons lost the equivalent of Last Man on Earth's rating and Family Guy lost 2.8 points. They're still good numbers though.

What do you think of those ratings? Is your favorite show down? What did YOU watch? Tell us in the comments!


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The Weekly #1: PREMIERE WEEK

The TV Ratings Guide Weekly! A weekly feature including the ratings of all the programs aired by

 broadcast networks NBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, and The CW. In addition, the top ten of cable and weekly rankings of six broadcast networks. All ratings are the Live+SD Adults 18-49 and Total Viewer numbers provided by Nielsen.

For the regular season, the posts will be labeled with the week number with premiere week being week # 1.

With all the shows coming back, I thought it would be a good idea to compare how the shows are doing compared to last season. Many of the circumstances are vastly different which causes the craz y2y trends.

* Non-fall premiere, compared with season 1.

** Compared with timeslot debut.

Broadcast Networks:

Rank	Network	A18-49 Rating	Total Viewers (in millions)	Total Viewers Ranking
1	NBC	2.7	8.9	2
2	CBS	2.5	10.9	1
3	ABC	1.7	6.9	3
4	FOX	1.6	4.2	4
5	The CW	0.3	1.0	5

NBC:

Rank	Program	A18-49 Rating	Overall A18-49 Rank	Total Viewers (in millions)	Overall Viewer Rank
1	Sunday Night Football-09/27	8.1	1	22.07	2
2	The Voice-09/21	3.5	6	12.10	10
3	The Voice-09/22	3.5	7	12.34	9
4	Blindspot-09/21	3.1	10	2.83	61
5	Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris-09/22	2.1	24	5.91	41
6	Heroes Reborn-09/24	2.0	25	6.09	38
7	Law and Order: SVU-09/23	1.8	32	8.27	24
8	The Mysteries of Laura-09/23	1.2	47	7.11	31
9	The Player-09/24	1.2	51	4.68	47
10	Dateline-R-09/25	1.0	55	5.08	45
11	Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris-R-09/25	0.7	65	3.05	59
12	Premier Boxing Champions-09/26	0.6	67	2.18	65
13	The Carmichael Show-R-09/26	0.4	72	1.16	74

FOX:

Rank	Program	A18-49 Rating	Overall A18-49 Rank	Total Viewers (in millions)	Overall Viewer Rank
1	Empire-09/23	6.7	2	16.18	6
2	Rosewood-09/23	2.4	18	7.54	28
3	Scream Queens-09/22	1.7	34	4.04	50
4	Gotham-09/21	1.6	36	4.57	48
5	The Simpsons-09/27	1.5	37	3.28	54
6	Brooklyn Nine-Nine-09/27	1.5	38	3.14	56
7	Family Guy-09/27	1.5	40	2.87	60
8	The Last Man on Earth-09/27	1.4	41	3.14	57
9	Bob’s Burgers-09/27	1.2	46	2.51	62
10	Minority Report-09/21	1.1	53	3.10	58
11	College Football-09/26	1.0	56	3.40	52
12	Family Guy-R-09/27	0.8	60	2.05	67
13	Scream Queens-R-09/24	0.7	61	2.01	68
14	Minority Report-R-09/25	0.7	66	2.27	64
15	Rosewood-R-09/25	0.5	68	2.13	66

ABC:

Rank	Program	A18-49 Rating	Overall A18-49 Rank	Total Viewers (in millions)	Overall Viewer Rank
1	Scandal-09/24	3.3	8	10.25	14
2	Modern Family-09/23	3.2	9	9.46	20
3	The Muppets-09/22	2.9	12	9.01	21
4	Grey’s Anatomy-09/24	2.8	13	9.55	19
5	How to Get Away With Murder-09/24	2.6	15	8.38	22
6	The Goldbergs-09/23	2.4	19	7.62	27
7	black-ish-09/23	2.4	20	7.30	29
8	The Middle-09/23	2.1	23	8.21	25
9	Fresh Off the Boat-09/22	1.9	26	6.05	40
10	Quantico-09/27	1.9	27	7.14	30
11	Once Upon a Time-09/27	1.8	29	3.20	55
12	Dancing With the Stars-09/21	1.8	31	11.46	11
13	Shark Tank-09/25	1.7	35	6.08	39
14	Dancing With the Stars-09/22	1.5	39	9.58	18
15	Blood & Oil-09/27	1.4	42	6.36	35
16	20/20-09/25	1.3	43	5.38	43
17	Nashville-09/23	1.2	48	4.91	46
18	Castle-09/21	1.2	50	6.84	33
19	Last Man Standing-09/25	1.1	52	6.26	36
20	The Muppets-R-09/25	0.8	58	3.59	51
21	Saturday Night Football-09/26	0.7	62	2.39	63
22	Dark Swan Rises: Once Upon a Time Fan Appreciation-09/27	0.7	64	7.10	32

CBS:

Rank	Program	A18-49 Rating	Overall A18-49 Rank	Total Viewers (in millions)	Overall Viewer Rank
1	Thursday Night Football-09/24	6.0	3	16.88	5
2	The Big Bang Theory-09/21	4.7	4	18.20	3
3	NFL Football-09/27	4.4	5	22.13	1
4	60 Minutes-09/27	2.9	11	15.04	7
5	Life in Pieces-09/21	2.6	14	11.28	12
6	Survivor-09/23	2.5	16	9.70	17
7	NCIS-09/22	2.5	17	18.19	4
8	Big Brother-09/23	2.2	21	6.54	34
9	Scorpion-09/21	2.2	22	11.09	13
10	Limitless-09/22	1.9	28	9.86	16
11	CSI-09/27	1.8	30	12.22	10
12	NCIS: New Orleans-09/22	1.7	33	12.62	8
13	Blue Bloods-09/25	1.3	44	10.08	15
14	NCIS: Los Angeles-09/21	1.2	45	7.89	26
15	The Amazing Race-09/25	1.2	49	5.82	42
16	Hawaii Five-0-09/25	1.0	54	8.30	23
17	48 Hours-09/26	0.9	57	5.25	44
18	48 Hours-09/26	0.8	59	4.16	49
19	Limitless-R-09/26	0.7	63	3.40	53

CW:

Rank Program A18-49 Rating Overall A18-49 Rank Total Viewers (in millions) Overall Viewer Rank 1 America’s Next Top Model-09/23 0.4 69 1.35 69 2 The Flash-R-09/22 0.4 70 1.19 73 3 The Flash-R-09/24 0.4 71 1.12 76 4 The Flash-R-09/22 0.4 73 1.09 77 5 Masters of Illusion-09/25 0.4 74 1.35 70 6 Penn & Teller: Fool Us-R-09/25 0.3 75 1.27 71 7 Penn & Teller: Fool Us-09/21 0.3 76 1.15 75 8 Whose Line Is It Anyway-R-09/21 0.3 77 0.95 78 9 Whose Line Is It Anyway-R-09/25 0.3 78 1.24 72 10 Arrow-R-09/24 0.3 79 0.78 79 11 A Wicked Offer-09/23 0.2 80 0.50 80 12 Significant Mother-09/21 0.1 81 0.47 81

Top Ten Cable Shows:

Rank Program A18-49 Rating Total Viewers (in millions) Network 1 Monday Night Football-09/21 4.7 12.48 ESPN 2 Fear the Walking Dead-09/27 3.4 6.66 AMC 3 Thursday Night Football-09/24 1.4 3.23 NFLN 4 Love & Hip Hop Hollywood-09/21 1.4 2.56 VH1 5 Sportscenter-09/21 1.4 3.12 ESPN 6 WWE Entertainment-09/21 (8 PM) 1.2 3.42 USA 7 WWE Entertainment-09/21 (10 PM) 1.2 3.26 USA 8 The Have and the Have Nots-09/22 1.2 1.97 OWN 9 WWE Entertainment-09/21 (8 PM) 1.1 3.37 USA 10 Family Guy-R-09/24 1.1 2.08 Adult Swim

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Sources: TVbytheNumbers, Spotted Ratings, TV Media Insights.