Football scores large for week

Network game broadcasts shown typical holiday strength since the "Sunday Evening Football" game designated a sizable week of pigskin. In the Thanksgiving frame that saw preemptions or lower-than-usual ratings for a lot of of primetime's finest hits due to lower television usage, football ruled supreme.Pigskin won in key demos on four nights the other day (Monday, Thursday, Saturday or sunday), with NBC's "Sunday Evening Football" game between Pittsburgh and can in the lead of course (7.9/18 in grownups 18-49, 20.34 million audiences overall).And capping a Thursday full of football, Nfl Network came its greatest Thanksgiving audience so far for the sport featuring the initial showdown in league history between mind-training brothers and sisters: John Harbaugh in the Baltimore Ravens and Jim Harbaugh in the San Francisco Bay Area 49ers (4.1/13, 10.68m).Overall, CBS used a extended Nfl overrun on Sunday to win a couple of days overall, including grownups 18-49 (2.5/7 to 2.1/6 for runner-up ABC) and total audiences (9.8 million to eight.7 million for ABC).Round the entertainment series side, the week's top-rated draws incorporated CBS Monday comedies "two and a half Males" (5.2/13, 15.82m), "2 Broke Women" (4.6/12, 11.33m) and "The Way In Which I Met Your Mother" (4.4/12, 10.01m) additionally to ABC's "DwtsInch finale on Tuesday (4.1/11, 19.56m) -- lower noticeably year upon year but nevertheless the week's most-seen non-sports program.ABC also acquired with "Modern Family" on Wednesday (4.6/13, 12.72m), though this Thanksgiving Eve original episode was well below its usual ratings level and could start a Dvr playback record when people full-week amounts are launched inside a couple of days.Sunday saw the fall finale of AMC's "The Walking Dead" (prelim 3.4/8 in 18-49, 6.6 000 0000), which was up week to week due to its second finest-rated episode so far. The zombie skein matched up in the demo score of the night's "Not such a long time ago" on ABC (3.4/8, 10.69m), which drenched its least expensive same-evening demo delivery within the five airings so far but is constantly stand since the season's most widely used new drama.Also of note Sunday will be a weak start for your Hallmark Hall of Fame on ABC, since the franchise which in fact had broadcast exclusively on CBS more than 15 years came low ratings for your original presentation of "Mitch Albom's Have a very Little Belief" (1.1/2, 6.44m).Among holiday special deals, Fox exercised best having its Thursday combo of "Ice Age Mammoth" (2.3/7, 7.10m) and "Happiness can be a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown" (1.6/5, 4.92m), while ABC did OK the identical evening with "A Very Gaga Thanksgiving" (1.6/5, 5.49m).And also on Friday, CBS saw modest scores for your premieres of "Hoops & Years of age-Years of age Ruin Christmas" (.8/3, 3.54m) and "Elf in stockInch (1.1/3, 4.18m). Due to the Christmas, the whole page of TV ratings charts for your week of November. 21-27 look in Thursday's paper. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com