By David Bauder, Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --“Survivor” has returned to CBS’ schedule – for the 34th time – and it remains one of television’s top 20 shows.
The Nielsen company said the debut of a new “Survivor” edition with host Jeff Probst was seen by 7.7 million viewers last week. The 18 most-watched prime-time programs last week were either on CBS and NBC, with AMC’s “The Walking Dead” the lone exception. Thirteen of those shows were on CBS.
Nielsen released its weekly ratings on Thursday, two days later than normal, because of a power outage over the weekend at one of its facilities in Florida.
CBS won the week in prime-time, averaging 7.3 million viewers. NBC was second with 5.9 million, and won the 18-to-49-year-old age group that advertisers covet. ABC had 4.4 million, Fox had 2.6 million, Univision had 1.7 million, the CW had 1.34 million, Telemundo had 1.33 million and ION Television had 1.2 million.
Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.43 million viewers. ESPN had 1.75 million, HGTV had 1.65 million, MSNBC had 1.64 million and Discovery had 1.5 million.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.4 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 8.3 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.7 million.
Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for March 6-12. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.
1. “NCIS,” CBS, 14.18 million.
2. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 13.08 million.
3. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 12 million.
4. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 11.62 million.
5. “This is Us,” NBC, 11.15 million.
6. “The Walking Dead,” AMC, 10.68 million.
7. “Bull,” CBS, 10.39 million.
8. “Little Big Shots,” NBC, 10.12 million.
9. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 9.97 million.
10. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 9.36 million.
11. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 9.26 million.
12. “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS, 9.2 million.
13. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 9.06 million.
14. “Madam Secretary,” CBS, 8.23 million.
15. “MacGyver,” CBS, 7.73 million.
16. “Survivor,” CBS, 7.66 million.
17. “Mom,” CBS, 7.51 million.
18. “The Big Bang Theory” (Monday), CBS, 7.49 million.
19. “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC, 7.31 million.
20. “The Bachelor,” ABC, 7.1 million
Full Lineup Set For AFI Fest; Official Selections Span 44 Countries, Include 9 Best International Feature Oscar Submissions
The American Film Institute (AFI) has unveiled the full lineup for this year’s AFI Fest, taking place in Los Angeles from October 23-27. Rounding out the slate of already announced titles are such highlights as September 5 directed by Tim Fehlbaum, All We Imagine As Light directed by Payal Kapadia, The Luckiest Man in America directed by Samir Oliveros (AFI Class of 2019), Zurawski v. Texas from executive producers Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence and directors Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, and Oh, Canada directed by Paul Schrader (AFI Class of 1969). A total of 158 films are set to screen at the 38th edition of AFI Fest.
Of the official selections, 48% are directed by women and non-binary filmmakers and 26% are directed by BIPOC filmmakers.
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