Ratings Report: Survivor Does Its Thing

Gabon finale draws estimated 13.8 million; NBC rules with football

By Joal Ryan Dec 15, 2008 6:01 PMTags
Jeff Probst, SurvivorJeffrey R. Staab/CBS

Sunday's Big Winner—Well, Besides Bob Crowley: NBC's Sunday Night Football (20.5 million viewers, per Nielsen estimates) killed with the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants.

How CBS' Survivor Has Survived as a Former "It" Show: People who still like it, still like it. The audience for the Gabon finale (13.8 million) was consistent from start to finish; the episode was on par with its season average.

What Do Women 18-34 Like? Judging by the CW's barely there numbers in the demo from 8-10 p.m., the answer is not Mel Brooks' Spaceballs (1.2 million viewers overall).

And the Esteemed Title of Biggest Rerun of the Night on a Night of Reruns Goes To: ABC's rebroadcast of Tim Allen's reliable Santa Clause 2 (8.7 million).

Classical Appreciation Is Dead: Friday on CBS, Frosty Returns (7.7 million) outdrew the original Frosty the Snowman (7.6 million).