Though the last regular season installment of Sunday Night Football led a lackluster week of mostly reruns, CBS again dominated taking eight of the top ten spots and fourteen out of twenty.
Nielsen Top Twenty Shows by viewers for the week ending 12/28/08:
| Rank | Shows | R=Repeat S=Special P=Premiere | Net | # Viewers (LIVE+SD) (000) | HH RATING (LIVE+SD) | HH SHARE (LIVE+SD) |
| 1 | NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL | NBC | 14,847 | 9.0 | 15 | |
| 2 | 60 Minutes | CBS | 14,110 | 8.7 | 15 | |
| 3 | TWO AND A HALF MEN | R | CBS | 11,817 | 7.4 | 12 |
| 4 | Mentalist, THE-10PM SPCL(S) | SR | CBS | 10,676 | 6.6 | 11 |
| 5 | NCIS 9P-SPECIAL(S) | SR | CBS | 10,598 | 6.6 | 11 |
| 6 | SUNDAY NIGHT NFL PRE-KICK | NBC | 10,137 | 6.1 | 10 | |
| 7 | MILLION DOLLAR PASSWORD | CBS | 9,836 | 6.3 | 10 | |
| 8 | COLD CASE | CBS | 9,693 | 6.1 | 10 | |
| 9 | CSI: MIAMI | R | CBS | 8,541 | 5.8 | 10 |
| 10 | CSI - SPECIAL(S) | SR | CBS | 8,029 | 5.0 | 10 |
| 11 | GHOST WHISPERER-SPECIAL(S) | SR | CBS | 7,795 | 5.0 | 9 |
| 12 | OT, THE | FOX | 7,625 | 4.8 | 8 | |
| 13 | FOOTBALL NT AMERICA PT 3 | NBC | 7,517 | 4.6 | 8 | |
| 14 | ELEVENTH HOUR - SPECIAL(S) | S | CBS | 7,370 | 4.7 | 10 |
| 15 | BIG BANG THEORY, THE | R | CBS | 7,244 | 4.7 | 8 |
| 16 | LAW AND ORDER:SVU | R | NBC | 7,052 | 4.7 | 8 |
| 17 | CSI: NY - SPCL(S) | SR | CBS | 6,918 | 4.6 | 10 |
| 18 | WORST WEEK | R | CBS | 6,859 | 4.5 | 7 |
| 19 | HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER | R | CBS | 6,840 | 4.4 | 7 |
| 20 | HOUSE | R | FOX | 6,739 | 4.3 | 7 |
Nielsen Ratings Data: ©2008 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved
All numbers above based on live plus same day DVR viewing.
Guys! Time warner and Viacom are at an impasse, America may see blackout on twc on jan 01 09
http://dhd.browardpalmbeach.com/happy-new-year-time-warner-cable-to-yank-mtv-nickeodeon-comedy-central-off-the-air/
I could care less about my MTV but my spongebob sp I can barely live without.
Those numbers don’t look right. Yesterday, I saw a listing that had SNF (Denver/SD game) at 14.8MM and Million Password 9.8. Are you sure those Viewer numbers aren’t the number of HHs????
DenverDean — doh! I’m red with embarrassment. Fixed!
Glad I could help! LOL. Thanks so much for your blog. Happy 2009!