Ratings: Broadcast Finals for November 17, 2013

Feature a great match up with Peyton Manning involved and you get great ratings for Sunday Night Football. Drawing just under 27 million viewers and a 9.9 rating in Adults 18-49, the Denver vs Kansas City game was nearly identical to the Denver vs Indy game, one month earlier. These two games are the most watched Sunday Night games of the season.

FOX got a good sampling for it's new sci-fi drama ALMOST HUMAN, which collected 9.2 million viewers and and a 3.2 rating in Adults 18-49. It was the highest rated show of the night, excluding football programming, in the demographic ratings. It help boost FOX to second place on the night and draw more viewers than CBS.

For the first time in three weeks, CBS was back to it's regular primetime schedule, with all shows airing in their correct time slots. With that, the numbers dropped for the first three series, but THE MENTALIST held steady in the A18-49 ratings and increased viewership by about 1.3 million. I wonder if CBS would benefit by flipping THE MENTALIST and THE GOOD WIFE? THE GOOD WIFE seems to do better with a later start time, as it had the last two weeks.

For ABC it was more depressed ratings. Not a single show could draw 7 million viewers or achieve a 2.0 rating in the A18-49 demographic.
 

Sunday Night Network Averages:

ABC - 5.6 million viewers, 1.4 rating in Adults 18-49

CBS - 10.1 million viewers, 1.6 rating in Adults 18-49

FOX - 11.5 million viewers, 4.1 rating in Adults 18-49

NBC - 22.7 million viewers, 8.3 rating in Adults 18-49

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-49	+/-
7:00	ABC	AFV	6.42	1.4
8:00	ABC	Once Upon A Time	6.66	1.9	4%
9:00	ABC	Revenge	5.81	1.5	-13%
10:00	ABC	Betrayal	3.39	0.9	-42%
7:00	CBS	60 Minutes	11.86	1.7
8:00	CBS	The Amazing Race	9.12	2.0	-23%
9:00	CBS	The Good Wife	9.72	1.4	7%
10:00	CBS	The Mentalist	9.72	1.4	0%
7:00	FOX	NFL Overrun	26.94	8.8
7:30	FOX	The OT	14.99	5.3	-44%
8:00	FOX	Almost Human	9.18	3.1	-39%
9:00	FOX	The Simpsons	4.08	1.8	-56%
9:30	FOX	Family Guy	4.46	2.2	9%
7:30	NBC	Football Night in America	5.77	2.2
8:00	NBC	Football Night in America	14.02	4.7	143%
8:30	NBC	SNF: DEN v KC	26.95	9.9	92%

* - in millions