Preliminary Ratings: Sunday 01/21/2018

To the surprise of no one, FOX dominated the night with the NFC Championship game. The last game before the Super Bowl drew 33.8 million viewers and a 10.9 rating in Adults 18-49. That number should rise when final numbers are released on Tuesday, but it will still be far short from 2016's 45.7 million viewers and 15.7 demo rating, the last time FOX had the game in primetime.

FOX used the game to premiere its newest series, THE RESIDENT, and given the lead in, the show may already be on the cancellation clock. The 8.8 million viewers and 2.7 rating in Adults 18-49 is a loss of 75% of the lead in NFL audience. Comparably, in 2016, THE X-FILES premiere drew 16.2 million viewers and last year, on CBS, HUNTED kept 11.9 million viewers, from its 2017 AFC Championship Game Lead in.

ABC, CBS and NBC were bunched up together, grabbing about a tenth of the audience FOX drew. ABC had three hours of originals, but did little more than NBC's all-encore night.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	3.90 million	0.5	0.9	1.2
CBS	6.00 million	0.5	0.8	1.1
CW	0.00 million	0.0	0.0	0.0
FOX	27.60 million	7.0	8.9	10.5
NBC	3.20 million	0.4	0.7	1.0

Time	Net	Program	P2*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
7:00	ABC	AFV [R]	3.80	0.4	0.6	0.9
8:00	ABC	AFV	4.10	0.4	0.8	1.2
9:00	ABC	Shark Tank	3.90	0.6	1.0	1.3
10:00	ABC	Shark Tank	3.80	0.6	1.0	1.3
7:00	CBS	60 Minutes [R]	8.10	0.8	1.2	1.6
8:00	CBS	60 Minutes	6.90	0.5	0.8	1.2
9:00	CBS	SWAT [R]	4.40	0.3	0.6	0.8
10:00	CBS	NCIS: LA [R]	4.70	0.4	0.6	0.9
7:00	FOX	NFC Championship Game: PHI v MIN	33.80	8.6	10.9	12.9
10:00	FOX	The Resident (SP)	8.80	2.1	2.7	3.2
7:00	NBC	Little Big Shots [R]	2.60	0.2	0.4	0.6
9:00	NBC	Little Big Shots [R]	3.30	0.3	0.6	0.8
7:00	NBC	Ellen's Game of Games [R]	3.40	0.5	0.8	1.1
9:00	NBC	Ellen's Game of Games [R]	3.60	0.6	1.0	1.3

* - viewers in millions