It's time for a journey through the NBC Sunday schedule in 2017-18...
fall
| Year | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | Football Night in America p3 | Sunday Night Football | 518 | ||||
| 295 | 562 | ||||||
| 429 | 562 | 562 | |||||
| 2017-18 | Football Night in America p3 | Sunday Night Football | 518 (0%) | ||||
| 287 (-3%) | 564 (+0%) | ||||||
| 425 (-1%) | 564 (+0%) | 564 (+0%) | |||||
| VsAvg | +95% | +94% | +97% | +95% | |||
| Rank | 2/17 | 1/17 | 1/17 | 2/17 | |||
Sunday Night Football was down in Plus for the season, which is pretty crazy. But that's largely because the would-be Christmas Eve game got shoved over to Saturday and averaged a measly 4.1 demo. The games that actually occurred on Sunday were virtually even.
winter
| Year | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | Movie Night | 48 | |||||
| 49 | 51 | 46 | |||||
| 2017-18 | Dateline | Movie Night | 53 (+9%) | ||||
| 59 (+20%) | 50 (-2%) | 50 (+9%) | |||||
| VsAvg | -3% | -38% | -35% | -27% | |||
| Rank | 9/17 | 15/17 | 14/17 | 13/17 | |||
As usual in the post-Sunday Night Football, pre-Oscars period... yawn!
spring
| Year | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | Little Big Shots | Chicago Justice | Shades of Blue | 86 | |||
| 114 | 82 | 61 | |||||
| 2017-18 | Little Big Shots | Genius Junior | Timeless | 66 (-23%) | |||
| 82 (-29%) | 63 (-23%) | 54 (-11%) | |||||
| VsAvg | +29% | -23% | -32% | -11% | |||
| Rank | 3/17 | 14/17 | 15/17 | 12/17 | |||
In the spring, with American Idol competition, NBC's Little Big Shots-led lineup sprung a major leak. The biggest decliner was LBS itself, but game show Genius Junior was down almost as much against the middling drama Chicago Justice. Timeless slowed the declines a good bit at 10/9c vs. Shades of Blue, but was still down double digits.
Rating the Ratings
| Name | Lo | Avg | Hi | y2y | Plus | Label | Plusy2y | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Big Shots | 0.8 | 0.88 | 1.1 | -37% | 80 | marginal | -30% | detail |
| Genius Junior | 0.5 | 0.64 | 1.0 | 58 | flop | detail | ||
| Timeless | 0.5 | 0.62 | 0.8 | -44% | 56 | flop | -38% | detail |
Little Big Shots: (Average above does not include summer airings.) Even after a 30% decline in Plus, Little Big Shots was still the third-best spring 8/7c occupant NBC has had in the era (behind only the other two LBS seasons), which is pretty crazy. I'm sure that facing American Idol was a big factor for this kind of show, but dropping this much in the same timeslot is hard to forgive. Grade: D+.
Genius Junior: The 1.0 on premiere night showed this was not a hopeless situation. Dropping to 0.7 in week two and settling at 0.6ish is largely the show's fault. Grade: D.
Timeless: Going from Monday 10/9c in the fall after The Voice (plus a few winter eps) to Sunday 10/9c in the spring is about as bad a timeslot downgrade as there is. So Timeless may have not been that much weaker than last year (when it was already a shaky renewal), but I would still say it was at least a little weaker. It still gets the grade edge over the other two shows here because it was the closest to the year-ago occupant. Grade: C-.
The names in this last table link to the shows' War of 18-49 pages. Links with an asterisk(*) have been updated with the new info. Updates to younger shows will come later in the summer.
Here's the now updated Schedules Plus for NBC Sunday.
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