You can’t go wrong with football.
FOX: Most of the major college bowl games have migrated to ESPN, but the COTTON BOWL remains on broadcast (for now), and gave FOX an easy win for the night, with a preliminary 3.1 rating in 18-49s that’s solidly higher than last year’s 2.5 for the game.
ABC: All the other networks experienced modest declines from the pre-holiday airings of their regular shows–whether that’s going to be a continuing issue or was a result of last night’s atypical competition isn’t yet clear. So at ABC, LAST MAN STANDING and MALIBU COUNTRY were down 0.1 and 0.3 from December, to a respective 1.4 and 1.2. SHARK TANK was down 0.1 to 1.8, and 20/20 was down 0.2 to 1.6.
CBS: Everything was down 0.1 from its last airing: UNDERCOVER BOSS to 1.5, CSI NY to 1.4, and BLUE BLOODS to 1.3.
NBC: After a pair of 0.6s for GO ON reruns, DATELINE was down 0.2 to 1.5.
CW: 2 hours of 0.3 reruns.
This afternoon and tonight will belong to NBC and the NFL WILD CARD GAMES. On Sunday, all the networks return to their regular line-ups, with NBC premiering the year’s return of THE BIGGEST LOSER, but FOX will have the benefit of the late NFL game leading in to primetime. The biggest non-football event of the weekend is the season premiere of DOWNTON ABBEY’s Season 3 on PBS.
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MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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