Viewers find ‘Hunted’ after big AFC title game
New reality show posts a 4.0 in 18-49s, best this season
January 23, 2017
Viewers didn’t have to try all that hard to hunt down the series premiere of CBS’s latest reality show. The network ran commercials for “Hunted” ad nauseum during Sunday night’s AFC championship game.
And the promotions evidently helped. While “Hunted” lost a great deal of its lead-in audience, it still had the best premiere of the season for any new show on CBS among adults 18-49.
“Hunted” averaged a 4.0 18-49 rating from 10 to 11 p.m. Sunday night, according to Nielsen time-adjusted fast nationals.
That marked the best debut for any new program this season.
Of course, “Hunted,” about a group of regular people being hunted down by investigators and ex-military personnel, had a huge lead-in.
From 7 to 10 p.m., the AFC title game averaged a 13.4 rating. That appears to be bigger than the NFC championship earlier in the afternoon on Fox, though again final ratings won’t be out until later.
The game faced little competition, with the other networks opting largely for repeats.
Fox did air an original episode of “Son of Zorn,” which scored a respectable 1.5 opposite the Patriots-Steelers game.
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Top show of the night in 18-49s
CBS’s “NFL Football,” 7-10 p.m., 13.4 rating.
Top show of the night in 18-34s
CBS’s “NFL Football,” 7-10 p.m., 10.8 rating.
Top show of the night in total viewers
CBS’s “NFL Football,” 7-10 p.m., 41.25 million.
Overnights
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Network
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Adults 18-49
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Adults 18-34
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Households
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Rating
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Share
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Rating
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Share
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Rating
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Share
|
|
CBS
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10.9
|
32
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8.8
|
33
|
17.3
|
28
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Fox (7-10 p.m.)
|
1.0
|
3
|
0.8
|
3
|
1.5
|
2
|
NBC
|
0.7
|
2
|
0.4
|
2
|
2.2
|
4
|
ABC
|
0.6
|
2
|
0.4
|
1
|
1.9
|
3
|
Univision
|
0.6
|
2
|
0.5
|
2
|
1.0
|
2
|
Telemundo
|
0.5
|
1
|
0.4
|
1
|
0.8
|
1
|
All ratings based on live-plus-same-day DVR playback, including shows replayed before 3 a.m. Seven-day DVR data won’t be available for several weeks. Forty-nine percent of Nielsen households have DVRs Source: Nielsen |
Overnights
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Network
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Show
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18-49 Rating
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CBS
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NFL Football: Steelers at Patriots
|
13.4
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CBS |
Hunted (series debut) |
4.0 |
FOX
|
Son of Zorn
|
1.5
|
FOX
|
The Simpsons
|
1.0
|
FOX
|
Family Guy
|
1.0
|
FOX
|
Bob’s Burgers
|
0.9
|
FOX
|
Bob’s Burgers
|
0.9
|
FOX
|
Son of Zorn
|
0.9
|
ABC
|
America’s Funniest Home Videos
|
0.8
|
NBC
|
Dateline NBC
|
0.8
|
Univision
|
Su Nombre era Dolores
|
0.7
|
ABC
|
To Tell The Truth
|
0.6
|
ABC
|
To Tell The Truth
|
0.6
|
NBC
|
Ted
|
0.6
|
Univision
|
Aqui y Ahora
|
0.6
|
Telemundo
|
Siempre Niños
|
0.5
|
Univision
|
Sal y PImienta
|
0.5
|
Telemundo
|
Penguins of Madagascar
|
0.4
|
Telemundo
|
Don Francisco te Invita
|
0.4
|
ABC
|
Quantico
|
0.3
|
All ratings based on live-plus-same-day DVR playback, including shows replayed before 3 a.m. Seven-day DVR data won’t be available for several weeks. Forty-nine percent of Nielsen households have DVRs
Source: Nielsen
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Tags: afc championship, cbs, hunted, new shows, nfl, overnight ratings, overnights, reality shows, sports tv, sunday overnights
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