By Andrew Dalton, Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) --A contentious interview with White House adviser Peter Navarro over the administration's response to the coronavirus helped "60 Minutes" earn the top spot in the ratings for the third time this season.
The venerable CBS news show drew 9.68 million viewers to edge out three NBC shows: "The Voice," "Chicago Med," and "Chicago Fire," the Nielsen company said Tuesday. Fox's "The Masked Singer rounded out the top 5.
Numbers for the top shows that surged in the first weeks that viewers stayed home because of the coronavirus outbreak appear to have leveled off to pre-pandemic levels.
The previous week's top show "NCIS" drew over 13 million viewers, and "60 Minutes" had over 10 million watching despite finishing fourth.
Major surges in viewers came for a pair of long-running ABC shows, with "Modern Family" airing its series finale after 11 seasons and "Grey's Anatomy" having its 16th season finale, but neither managed to crack the top 10 as both often did in their primes.
CBS was again the most popular network in primetime last week, averaging 5.83 million viewers, down from 6.7 million viewers the previous week. ABC and NBC each had 4.57 million, Fox had 2.57 million, Univision had 1.58 million, ION Television had 1.26 million and Telemundo had 990,000.
Fox News Channel was again the most-watched cable network, averaging 3.46 million viewers in primetime. MSNBC had 1.94 million, CNN had 1.82 million, The History Channel had 1.19 million and TLC had 1.18 million.
The coronavirus pandemic was apparently still drawing big audiences for evening network newscasts. ABC's "World News Tonight" was the leader with an average of 14 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 12 million, and the "CBS Evening News" had 8 million, Nielsen said.
For the week of April 6-12, the top 20 shows, their networks and viewerships:
1. "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.68 million.
2. "The Voice," NBC, 9.6 million.
3. "Chicago Med," NBC, 9.05 million.
4. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 8.97 million.
5. "The Masked Singer," Fox, 7.94 million.
6. "NCIS," CBS, 7.862 million.
7. "Survivor," CBS, 7.858 million.
8. "Chicago PD," NBC, 7.67 million.
9. "Station 19," ABC, 7.56 million.
10. "Magnum P.I.," CBS, 7.4 million.
11. "Modern Family," ABC, 7.37 million.
12. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 7.34 million.
13. "The Neighborhood," CBS, 7.23 million.
14. "Bull," CBS, 7.16 million.
15. "FBI," CBS, 6.96 million.
16. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 6.77 million.
17. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 6.75 million.
18. "Bob Hearts Abishola," CBS, 6.73 million.
19. "A Modern Farewell," ABC, 6.64 million.
20. "MacGyver," CBS, 6.38 million.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More