The news series was up by 135% in the demo over last week’s episode and The Amazing Race got a 27% boost. Undercover Boss, which isn’t nearly the blockbuster that it used to be, actually fell a few percent — the only regular series that did.
The FOX animated sitcoms seem to have benefited from being on hiatus and each got a nice boost. The last original episodes of The Simpsons, The Cleveland Show, Family Guy, and American Dad aired in mid-October.
Over on ABC, their aging line-up also experienced upticks. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition had the biggest gain with a 39% increase over last Sunday’s airing.
| TV show | Viewers (mil) | 18-49 demo | Demo +/- % |
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| 7:00 | abc | America's Funniest Home Videos | 7.713 | 1.6/4 | +14.3% | |
| 7:00 | fox | The Simpsons (r) | 3.152 | 1.2/3 | --- | |
| 7:30 | fox | The Simpsons (r) | 4.407 | 1.9/5 | --- | |
| 7:30 | nbc | Football Night in America, part 2 | 3.175 | 1.0/3 | --- | |
| 8:00 | fox | The Simpsons | 8.034 | 3.7/9 | +23.3% | |
| 7:55 | nbc | Football Night in America, part 3 | 9.766 | 3.4/9 | --- | |
| 8:07 | cbs | 60 Minutes | 15.146 | 3.3/8 | +135.7% | |
| 8:00 | abc | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | 9.33 | 2.5/6 | +38.9% | |
| 8:22 | nbc | Pre-Kick (9 minutes) | 16.043 | 5.8/15 | --- | |
| 8:31 | nbc | Sunday Night Football | 19.368 | 7.4/18 | --- | |
| 8:30 | fox | The Cleveland Show | 6.684 | 3.1/7 | +18.1% | |
| 9:00 | abc | Desperate Housewives | 12.716 | 4.1/10 | +17.1% | |
| 9:00 | fox | Family Guy | 8.002 | 3.8/9 | +11.8% | |
| 9:07 | cbs | The Amazing Race | 11.013 | 3.3/8 | +26.9% | |
| 9:30 | fox | American Dad | 6.297 | 2.9/7 | +16.0% | |
| 10:07 | cbs | Undercover Boss | 11.039 | 2.9/8 | -3.3% | |
| 10:00 | abc | Brothers & Sisters | 8.702 | 2.5/7 | +8.7% | |
Raw data: © The Nielsen Company via Media Week. The “Demo +/-%” column indicates how many viewers in the 18-49 demographic (the most important category to advertisers) watched over those that watched the last original episode.
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