This just in: Football is popular. (News at 11.) NBC’s NFL coverage gave the network a huge win for Sunday night, bringing in as many as 20.8 million viewers between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. CBS’s reality shows for the night fared strangely, with Big Brother dropping over 3 million viewers in its second half and There Goes the Neighborhood‘s two-hour finale losing viewers every half-hour. King of the Hill‘s one-hour series finale pulled in a respectable 6.1 million viewers, while a new episode of Defying Gravity barely hung on for 2.5.
| Time | Show | Viewers (in millions) |
|---|---|---|
| 7:00 p.m. | NFL Overrun (Fox) 60 Minutes (CBS) Football Night in America (NBC) America’s Funniest Home Videos (ABC) Benny and Joon (The CW) |
12.4 8.4 7.3 6.0 (repeat) 1.4 |
| 8:00 p.m. | Sunday Night Football (NBC) Big Brother 11 (CBS) King of the Hill (Fox) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC) The Vampire Diaries (The CW) |
18.2 8.5 6.1 4.9 (repeat) 1.4 (repeat) |
| 9:00 p.m. | Family Guy (Fox) Shark Tank (ABC) There Goes the Neighborhood (CBS) Melrose Place (The CW) |
4.9 (repeat) 4.3 4.0 0.8 (repeat) |
| 9:30 p.m. | American Dad (Fox) | 4.0 (repeat) |
| 10:00 p.m. | Defying Gravity (ABC) | 2.5 |










Oh, were the networks on last night? I was too busy at HBO and AMC to notice.