Spotted Ratings, Sunday 6/26/16

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: Celebrity Family Feud (1.6) adjusted up to dodge a new series low (instead tying its series low from 4th of July weekend last year). Big Brother (1.6) also got a tenth back to avoid a new low.
• On cable, Game of Thrones finally got its first 4.0+ of the season, and it was by a wide margin with a new series high 4.35. That was up 5% from last year's finale, and means the show has been up in raw numbers every week this season except for the premiere.
• And the BET Awards were a strong second with a 1.95 average on BET. It was simulcast on several other networks, but it looks like the highest it got elsewhere was a 0.22 on Nick at Nite and a 0.19 on Comedy Central.

• The most heavily-branded lineup in summer TV is ABC's "Sunday Fun & Games," and it opened to somewhat unexpected results. The first note is that Celebrity Family Feud could only muster up a 1.5, which is a new series low and a bit surprising considering it had actually been getting low-1's even for recent repeats. It also had the biggest entertainment programming competition with the Sunday premiere of Big Brother (1.5), which has now been down in the teens year-to-year for all three of its opening nights. (Including a 1.9 on Wednesday and a 1.7 on Thursday).

• But ABC's news brightened a lot from there, as newbie The $100,000 Pyramid (1.7) pulled off an upset in actually growing from the Feud. Then another revival, Match Game (1.5) at 10/9c, held quite well from there. So it made for a surprisingly consistent night, and at a great level by summer standards.

• NBC also helped to liven up the Sunday summer landscape with a four-hour helping of US Olympics trials, with diving (0.7) at 7/6c, swimming (1.0) at 8/7c and gymnastics in the last two hours (1.4/1.3). NBC only had one hour of these trials on the comparable 2012 night (a 1.2 at 7/6c), so the comparisons should be a bit more apples-to-apples over the rest of this week.

• Fox was stuck deep in the cellar with the finale of Cooper Barrett's Guide (0.3) leading into comedy repeats (0.4/0.6/0.5/0.6/0.4).

• Updates to come on cable, as Game of Thrones' finale seeks its first un-rounded 4.0 rating in a season that has produced two 3.96's, a 3.95 and a 3.92.

FULL TABLE:

Name	A18-49	Skew	Last	Lastn	LeLa	wy2y	TLa	Ty2y	True	Last
America's Funniest Home Videos (R)	0.6	19%					-62%	-33%	0.95
Celebrity Family Feud	1.6	25%				-33%	-86%	-16%	1.95
The $100,000 Pyramid	1.7	27%					-85%	+21%	1.69
Match Game	1.5	29%					-87%	+114%	1.64
						ABC:	-85%	+10%
60 Minutes (R)	0.8	13%					+33%	-11%	1.13
Big Brother Sun	1.6	37%				-11%	+300%	-11%	2.04
Madam Secretary (R)	0.4	18%					+33%	0%	0.66
American Gothic (R)	0.3	20%					0%	-50%	0.76
						CBS:	+94%	-16%
US Olympic Trials	0.7	25%				-30%	0%	0%	1.09
US Olympic Trials	1.0	28%	+43%	+0.3		-17%	+43%	+25%	1.41	+0.33
Gymnastics: P&g Championships	1.3	31%					+86%	+160%	1.57
						NBC:	+54%	+72%
Cooper Barrett's Guide	0.3	39%	0%	0			-73%	+50%	0.67
Bob's Burgers (R)	0.4	50%					-64%	+33%	0.95
The Simpsons (R)	0.6	49%					-33%	+20%	1.06
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (R)	0.5	54%					0%	0%	1.06
Family Guy (R)	0.6	48%					+50%	-25%	0.97
The Last Man On Earth (R)	0.4	41%					0%	0%	0.74
						Fox:	-36%	+4%
						All:	-65%	+14%
Game of Thrones	4.35	62%	+13%	+0.50		+5%
Silicon Valley	1.05	65%	+19%	+0.17		-9%
The Last Ship	0.57	30%	+46%	+0.18		-33%
Veep	0.50	55%	+16%	+0.07		-6%
Preacher	0.49	44%	+14%	+0.06
Ray Donovan	0.28	32%				-12%
Murder in the First	0.28	26%				-18%
Motive	0.18	30%	+12%	+0.02		-80%
Roadies	0.07	26%

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