Ratings: Viewers choose 'Jesse Stone,' 'SNL' for Christmas weekend
NBC’s Sunday Night Football scored Sunday night, but CBS won the evening with afternoon pigskin-boosted 60 Minutes and Tom Selleck’s Jesse Stone: Thin Ice, which garnered nearly twice as many viewers as ABC’s airing of The Sound of Music. Earlier in the weekend, Christmas gifted NBC with a rare Friday victory thanks to its repeat airing of its Saturday Night Live Christmas special, giving 4.6 million viewers a break from festivities (and from reruns of Ghost Whisperer and ‘Til Death).
Here, a look at Sunday’s line-up in full:
| TimeShowViewers (in millions) | ||
| 7 p.m. | 60 Minutes (CBS) | 23.7 |
| 7:30 p.m. | Brothers (Fox) | 1.9 |
| 8 p.m. | Sunday Night Football (NBC) | 15.9 |
| 8:30 p.m. | The Cleveland Show (Fox) | 4.2 (repeat) |
| 9 p.m. | Family Guy (Fox) | 5.1 (repeat) |
| 9:30 p.m. | American Dad (Fox) | 4.2 (repeat) |
| 10 p.m. | Cold Case (CBS) | 10.3 (repeat) |
Source: Nielsen