Peyton Manning set the all-time career touchdown pass mark on Sunday night and handed NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” its best ratings of the NFL season. And right behind the “Football Night in America” game’s lofty 8.2 rating was the contest’s pregame show, which scored a 5.8.
In third place last week was CBS’s “Thursday Night Football,” with a 5.4 Live + Same Day rating; In fourth was Fox’s Sunday NFL postgame show, “The OT,” netting a 5.1 on the Nielsen sheets.
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Next up, “The Big Bang Theory” managed to once-again nestle in with the pigskin, pulling a 4.5 — good for fifth place. The CBS sitcom is such a hit that a rerun managed to finish at No. 13 last week, tying new episodes of NBC’s “The Blacklist” and ABC’s breakout freshman fall hit, “How to Get Away With Murder.”
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Another notable new ABC show to chart in the Top 20 is “Black-ish,” which matched Fox’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and CBS’s “NCIS” at No. 18, rounding out the rest.
Last week, to qualify for the Top 20, a TV show needed at least a 2.7 rating in the advertiser-sought 18-49 demographic. This week, a 2.5 made the cut.
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See this week’s full Top 20:
