NBC’s protection of Sunday’s Cincinnati Bengals-Baltimore Ravens NFL wild-card playoff recreation drew the most important prime-time viewers for any program since Tremendous Bowl Sunday — customary for a Sunday evening wild-card recreation — however was surpassed in the future later by the Dallas Cowboys’ 31-14 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The Bengals’ 24-17 victory averaged 26.87 million viewers, essentially the most for a prime-time program since NBC’s 15-minute Tremendous Bowl LVI postgame present averaged 54.065 million viewers on Feb. 13, in keeping with live-plus-same-day figures launched by Nielsen Wednesday. Viewership on Peacock and NFL digital properties boosted the viewers to twenty-eight.6 million.
The simulcast of Monday’s evening’s Dallas-Tampa Bay playoff recreation averaged 31.2 million viewers on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 and was ABC’s largest viewers for an NFL playoff recreation exterior of Tremendous Bowls.
Sunday’s broadcast viewership was down 7.1% from the 28.935 million common for final season’s Sunday prime-time wild-card recreation, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ 42-21 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. That recreation was additionally the best prime-time program since its previous Tremendous Bowl Sunday.
“NCIS” led all non-sports prime-time packages between Jan. 9 and Sunday, averaging 7.927 million viewers, seventh behind two NFL video games, two NFL pregame exhibits, ESPN’s protection of the School Soccer Playoff title recreation and Fox’s 11-minute NFL postgame present. The episode started a crossover with the 2 different components of the CBS franchise, which accounted for 3 of the week’s six high rated non-sports packages. “NCIS: Hawai’i” which adopted, was third amongst non-sports packages, averaging 7.357 million viewers, ninth general. “NCIS: Los Angeles” averaged 6.804 million viewers, sixth amongst non-sports packages, twelfth general and first amongst packages starting at 10 p.m., when broadcast tv viewing is usually decrease.
Two prime-time NFL playoff video games gave NBC the most important weekly viewership of any community through the 17-week-old 2022-23 tv season, averaging 9.57 million viewers, topping the earlier excessive of 8.31 million by Fox the week of Oct. 31-Nov. 6, when it aired 19 hours of prime-time programming, together with 4 World Sequence video games. NBC has completed first 14 occasions this season.
CBS was second, averaging 4.96 million viewers. Fox was third, averaging 4.2 million viewers and ABC was fourth, averaging 2.43 million viewers.
“Chicago Fireplace” was NBC’s main non-sports program, averaging 6.844 million viewers, eleventh for the week and fifth amongst non-sports packages.
NBC’s protection of the Golden Globe Awards was the community’s third highest non-sports program of the week regardless of averaging 6.253 million viewers, its smallest viewers since returning to NBC in 1996. The earlier low was 6.913 million viewers for the 2021 ceremony. The 2022 ceremony was not televised after an outcry over variety and moral requirements within the Hollywood Overseas Press Assn., which conducts the awards.
The Golden Globe Awards had been sixteenth for the week.
Fox’s highest rated prime-time program was its NFL postgame present, which averaged 17.692 million viewers, fourth for the week. Its high non-NFL program was “Special Forces: World’s Hardest Check,” which adopted the postgame present and averaged 3.629 million viewers, thirty sixth for the week and twenty ninth amongst non-sports packages.
“The Conners” was ABC’s rankings chief, averaging 4.148 million viewers, thirty first for the week, twenty fourth amongst non-sports packages and third amongst comedies.
CBS’ “Younger Sheldon” was the highest ranked comedy for twelfth time within the season, averaging 7.198 million viewers, tenth for the week, fourth amongst non-sports packages. Every of the present’s 10 first-run episodes have been their week’s most-watched comedy.
The CBS drama “Fireplace Nation” led all first-season packages for the ninth time, averaging 5.953 million viewers, nineteenth for the week and twelfth amongst non-sports packages.
The week’s solely premiere on the 5 main broadcast networks was the CBS recreation present “Lingo,” which was forty fifth for the week. “Lingo” retained 64.3% of the viewers of “The Value Is Proper at Night time,” which preceded it, and averaged 4.793 million viewers, twenty seventh for the week and twentieth amongst non-sports packages.
The CW averaged 500,000 viewers. Its greatest draw was Sunday’s Critics Alternative Awards, which averaged 910,000 viewers, one hundred and twentieth amongst broadcast packages. Its general rating was not obtainable.
The highest 20 prime-time packages consisted of two NFL video games; three NFL pregame exhibits; one NFL postgame present; ESPN’s protection of the School Soccer Playoff title recreation; 9 CBS scripted packages and “60 Minutes”; NBC’s “Chicago Fireplace” and “Chicago Med” and its protection of the Golden Globe Awards.
The School Soccer Playoff title recreation topped the cable rankings, averaging 16.627 million viewers, fifth for the week. Viewership for Georgia’s 65-7 victory over Texas Christian College on Jan. 9 in a recreation the Bulldogs led 38-7 at halftime was down 25.3% from the 22.257-million common for the earlier yr’s recreation, a 33-18 victory by Georgia over Alabama during which the Bulldogs trailed 9-6 at halftime.
ESPN received the cable community battle for the fifth consecutive week and tenth time in 12 weeks, averaging 2.922 million viewers. Fox News Channel was second, averaging 2.16 million and MSNBC third, averaging 976,000.
The cable high 20 consisted of ESPN’s protection of the School Soccer Playoff title recreation; 13 Fox News Channel weeknight political speak exhibits (5 broadcasts every of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and “Hannity” and three of “The Ingraham Angle”); Historical past’s long-running chronicle of a seek for treasure on a Canadian island, “The Curse of Oak Island”; the Hallmark Channel film “The Wedding ceremony Veil Inspiration”; the MSNBC information and opinion program “The Rachel Maddow Present”; the TLC relationship collection “90 Day Fiancé: Fortunately Ever After?”; and two hourlong segments of the USA Community skilled wrestling program “WWE Uncooked.”
The second season of “Ginny & Georgia” was Netflix’s most-streamed tv program for the second consecutive week, with viewers spending 162.72 million hours watching the ten episodes within the first full week they had been obtainable, in keeping with figures launched by the streaming service Tuesday. Viewership was down 9.8% from the 180.47 million hours watched the earlier week when the episodes of the dramedy had been obtainable for 4 days.
The thriller thriller about an 1830 homicide on the U.S. Navy Academy, “The Pale Blue Eye,” was Netflix’s hottest film, with 39.86 million hours watched in its first full week of launch, 7.2% lower than the 42.96 million hours watched the earlier week when it was obtainable for 3 days.
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller” dropped to 3rd behind “The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker” after back-to-back first-place finishes.
