NEW YORK - A strong Sunday night football game between the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys helped NBC top the prime-time ratings, but it was an otherwise dominant week for CBS.
The football game and its pregame shows finished among Nielsen’s top 20 most popular programs last week.
Also topping the list were Fox’s "House," NBC’s "Law & Order: SVU" and ABC’s annual airing of "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
Otherwise, all the other programs in the top 20 were on CBS.
The network’s Monday night comedies did very well, particularly "Two and a Half Men."
ABC’s two-hour "Boston Legal" finale, with the colourful heterosexual marriage story line between James Spader and William Shatner’s characters, was seen by just under 10 million viewers, its best result of the season.
For the week, CBS averaged 11.9 million viewers (7.4 rating, 12 share). NBC had 8.8 million (5.4, nine), ABC 6.3 million (4.0, seven) and Fox six million (3.7, six).
A ratings point represents 1,145,000 households, or one per cent of the country’s estimated 114.5 million TV homes.
The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.
For the week of Dec. 8-14, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: "Sunday Night Football: N.Y. Giants vs. Dallas," NBC, 23.05 million; "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 20.86 million; "60 Minutes," CBS, 18.8 million; "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 15.59 million; "Criminal Minds," CBS, 14.68 million; "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 14.2 million; "House," Fox, 14.05 million; "CSI: Miami," CBS, 13.79 million; "Survivor: Gabor Finale," CBS, 13.77 million; "The Mentalist," CBS, 13.7 million.
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ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. Fox is a unit of News Corp. NBC is owned by General Electric Co.
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