By David Bauder, Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --Two long-running television competitions, "American Idol" and "Survivor," debuted new seasons this past week but it was another old reliable that beat them both.
"NCIS," where star Mark Harmon has been solving crimes since the series began on CBS in September 2003, was easily the most-watched series of the week and the only to exceed 10 million viewers in live viewing, the Nielsen company said.
"American Idol" was ABC's most popular show last week, and exceeded 8 million viewers for a round of auditions. "Survivor," which is bringing back 20 former winners to compete in its 20th season in 2020, was seen by 6.7 million people
With football and awards show seasons ending in a mid-winter week, the television schedule reverted to some semblance of normal. CBS dominated its rivals with an average of 4.6 million viewers in prime time.
ABC was second with an average of 3.2 million, NBC had 3.1 million, Fox had 2 million, ION Television had 1.04 million, Univision had 1.02 million, Telemundo had 680,000 and the CW had 570,000.
Fox News channel was the most popular cable network, averaging 3.15 million viewers in primetime. TNT had 2.37 million, MSNBC had 1.64 million, HGTV had 1.26 million and History had 1.24 million.
ABC's "World News Tonight" won the evening news ratings race with an average of 9 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7.9 million viewers and the "CBS Evening News had 5.9 million.
For the week of Feb. 10-16, the 20 most popular shows, networks and viewers were:
1. "NCIS," CBS, 11.76 million.
2. "FBI," CBS, 8.94 million.
3. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 8.9 million.
4. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 8.29 million.
5. "Chicago Med," NBC, 8.18 million.
6. "American Idol," ABC, 8.07 million.
7. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.03 million.
8. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 7.46 million.
9. "America's Got Talent Champions," NBC, 7.17 million.
10. "Chicago PD," NBC, 7 million.
11. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 6.95 million.
12. "Survivor," CBS, 6.7 million.
13. "The Masked Singer," Fox, 6.64 million.
14. "The Bachelor," ABC, 6.43 million.
15. "This is Us," NBC, 6.42 million.
16. "The Neighborhood," CBS, 6.41 million.
17. "Bull," CBS, 6.32 million.
18. "Mom," CBS, 6.27 million.
19. "The Conners," ABC, 6.21 million.
20. "FBI: Most Wanted," CBS, 6.12 million.
Apple’s “Fuzzy Feelings” Wins Primetime Commercial Emmy Award
Apple’s “Fuzzy Feelings” won the primetime commercial Emmy this evening (9/7) during the first of two Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremonies being held this weekend in the Peacock Theater at LA Live. The yuletide film out of TBWAMedia Arts Lab was directed by Lucia Aniello via Hungry Man in tandem with stop-motion animator Anna Mantzaris of Passion Pictures.
“Fuzzy Feelings” introduces us to an office worker by day and stop-motion artist by night. As an employee, she works for a boss whom she’s grown to hate. So at night, her stop-motion creations put him in dire straits. The young woman makes her stop-motion fare by deploying the iPhone 15 Pro camera and a MacBook Air with M2 to edit it. However, when the woman's day job takes a turn and she starts to see her boss in another light, so too do her stop-motion endeavors as we see the value of working towards a kinder world, and what better time to start than during the holiday season?
Director Aniello is no stranger to the Emmy proceedings. As creator of the HBO Max series Hacks, she has won two Emmys (writing and directing) as well as a DGA Award. This year she is nominated for three more Emmys on the strength of Hacks--Outstanding Comedy Series as well as writing and directing for a comedy series.
This marks the second straight year that an Apple film has won the coveted primetime commercial Emmy. Back in January 2024, Apple’s “The Greatest,” directed by Kim Gehrig of Somesuch, came away with the Emmy.
This time around, “Fuzzy Feelings” topped a field of nominated commercials consisting of: Apple’s “Album Cover” from Apple’s in-house creatives and directed by David Shane of O Positive; Uber One | Uber Eats’ “Best Friends,” also... Read More