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    Football, reality competition conclusions dominate TV; Nielsen week in review

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    New Orleans Saints quarterback Taysom Hill (7) smiles as he leaves the field after the team defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Jason Behnken)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Football and other forms of televised competition — the season finales of some popular reality shows — dominated the Nielsen company's weekly list of the most popular shows on television.

    Four separate NFL games were on Nielsen's list of the most popular programs in primetime. As is typical, NBC's Sunday night game, most recently featuring New Orleans' surprise shutout of the Tampa Bay Bucs, topped the list.

    NBC's "The Voice," CBS' "Survivor" and Fox's "The Masked Singer" all crowned winners this past week and had fans tuning in. "The Voice," with 7.3 million viewers for the first of two parts on Monday, had the highest numbers.One television staple, ABC's showing of "The Sound of Music" movie, reached 3.3 million people on Sunday night, Nielsen said.

    Fox won the week in primetime among broadcast networks, averaging 5.7 million viewers last week. NBC had 5.1 million, CBS had 3.8 million, ABC had 3.5 million, Univision had 1.3 million, Ion Television had 1 million and Telemundo had 910,000.

    Fox News Channel won among the cable networks, averaging 2.2 million in primetime. ESPN had 1.89 million, Hallmark had 1.48 million, MSNBC had 1.3 million and Paramount had 1.07 million.

    ABC's "World News Tonight" won the evening news ratings race, averaging 8.2 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7.5 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.1 million.

    For the week of Dec. 13-19, the 20 most popular shows, their networks and viewerships:

    1. NFL Football: New Orleans at Tampa Bay, NBC, 18.06 million.
    2. NFL Football: Kansas City at L.A. Chargers, Fox, 17.86 million.
    3. "NFL Pregame," NBC, 12.17 million.
    4. "The OT," Fox, 11.18 million.
    5. "NFL Pregame," Fox, 9.26 million.
    6. "Football Night in America, Part 3," NBC, 8.92 million.
    7. "FBI," CBS, 8.31 million.
    8. NFL Football: L.A. Rams at Arizona, ABC, 7.97 million.
    9. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.94 million.
    10. NFL Football: L.A. Rams at Arizona, ESPN, 7.93 million.
    11. "Yellowstone," Paramount, 7.74 million.
    12. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 7.28 million.
    13. NFL Football: New England at Indianapolis, NFL Network, 7.26 million.
    14. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 6.98 million.
    15. "FBI: Most Wanted," CBS, 6.86 million.
    16. "Survivor," CBS, 5.61 million.
    17. "The Masked Singer," Fox, 5.08 million.
    18. "1883," Paramount, 4.98 million.
    19. "NFL Pregame," ABC, 4.74 million.
    20. "Football Night in America, Part 2," NBC, 4.73 million.

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    Football Practice Preps Nikki Glaser For Hosting The Golden Globes

    Thursday, December 26, 2024
    Nikki Glaser stands on the field after NFL football game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Denver Broncos, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

    What do Tom Brady, Taylor Swift and comedy have to do with learning about football?

    In the case of Nikki Glaser, it is all intertwined.

    Glaser has become a familiar face to football fans this season. Her breakthrough performance at the Tom Brady Roast on May 5 paved the way for five appearances on Amazon Prime Video's "Thursday Night Football" postgame show.

    Before last Thursday's game between the Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Chargers, Glaser said doing her "Late Hits" segment was a no-brainer following her success at the Brady roast.

    "The football audience is kind of familiar with me already. It's one that is OK with me not knowing every detail about football or expecting me to be an expert about it because I was who I was on the Brady Roast. I kind of admitted to not really following football that much," Glaser said. "And I became a fan of Tom Brady and the sport in doing it through that process. So then I was like, 'Let me just keep learning about football through joking about it.' And that was kind of my goal."

    Glaser admits her knowledge of football is not all the way there yet. Still, it is further ahead than it was a year ago when she started casually watching Chiefs games due to Swift's relationship with Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce.

    And mostly then, it was to see when Swift appeared on screen.

    However, Glaser decided to start learning more about the game, which she compared to trying to learn a new language.

    "I went my whole life putting on blinders because I was just scared to look stupid if I tried to learn. I always thought football fans would be really judgmental and cruel about my lack of knowledge. But they're not," Glaser said. "They're eager for you to understand and... Read More

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