Ratings: Football, Oprah, and Tiger help to make the season bright
Football ruled the weekend ratings this December weekend, with overrun from an early Sunday evening game giving CBS’ primetime lineup a boost (thus all numbers below for the Eye net are approximate) and NBC taking the night with the Philadelphia-New York matchup’s 18.1 million viewers, according to early Nielsen estimates. Oprah, meanwhile, gave ABC a nice little holiday present with her Christmas at the White House special building a bit on its Extreme Makeover: Home Edition lead-in and improving on last week’s numbers in the same timeslot for Brothers & Sisters by almost a million viewers. Earlier in the weekend, NBC garnered a rare Friday victory as well with a Law & Order featuring the guest-star return of Benjamin Bratt (8.8 million viewers) and a Dateline about the Tiger Woods scandal (9.3 million).
Here, a look at Sunday’s numbers:
| TimeShowViewers (in millions) | ||
| 7 p.m. | NFL overrun (CBS) | 22.3 |
| 7:30 p.m. | 60 Minutes (CBS) | 16.7 |
| 8 p.m. | Sunday Night Football (NBC) | 18.1 |
| 8:30 p.m. | The Cleveland Show (Fox) | 6.5 |
| 9 p.m. | Cold Case (CBS) | 9.9 |
| 9:30 p.m. | American Dad (Fox) | 6.2 |
| 10 p.m. | Christmas at the White House (ABC) | 11.8 |
Source: Nielsen Media
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