The Breakdown: ABC Sunday in 2023-24 (America's Funniest Home Videos, American Idol, What Would You Do?)

It's time for a journey through the ABC Sunday schedule in 2023-24...


fall

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	Avg
2022-23	Celebrity Jeopardy!		Celebrity Jeopardy!	Celebrity Wheel of Fortune		Celebrity Wheel of Fortune	The Rookie		The Rookie	86
	2022-23	95		95	88		88	75			75	86
2023-24	Movie Night						Movie Night	Movie Night	Movie Night	Movie Night	Movie Night	80 (-7%)
	2023-24	82 (-14%)		82 (-8%)	82 (-8%)		82 (-8%)	78 (+3%)		78 (+3%)	80.2211711815987
VsAvg	-25%		-0.254652300638763	-35%		-0.3458870556359	-20%		-0.19729876097773	-27%
Rank	21/25		21/25	19/25		19/25	15/25		15/25	19/25

ABC dipped into the Wonderful World of Disney archive for movies throughout the fall. Most of these in the fall were good for a respectable 0.3ish, though the average above is a bit carried by Home Alone posting a 0.65 on Christmas Eve.

winter

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	Avg
2022-23	Movie Night						Movie Night	Movie Night	Movie Night	Movie Night	Movie Night	58
	2022-23	58		58	59		59	59		59	58
2023-24	American Idol				American Idol	American Idol	American Idol	What Would You Do?		What Would You Do?	129 (+120%)
	2023-24	151 (+161%)		151 (+158%)	151 (+158%)		151 (+158%)	83 (+42%)		83 (+42%)		128.557995414816
VsAvg	+39%		0.387306920932229	+21%		0.20501514511843	-10%		-0.0987793558193466	+18%
Rank	4/25		4/25	7/25		7/25	13/25		13/25	8/25

After a few more movies (most of which did worse against the NFL playoffs), American Idol returned alongside the Primetime spin-off What Would You Do? which hadn't been seen since 2020. WWYD? had some strong 0.3's in these first few weeks but dropped to 0.2's and low 0.3's in the spring. Idol, meanwhile, was down significantly year-to-year.

spring

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	Avg
2022-23	American Idol				American Idol	American Idol	American Idol	The Company You Keep		The Company You Keep	129
	2022-23	165		165	165		165	57		57		129
2023-24	American Idol				American Idol	American Idol	American Idol	What Would You Do?		What Would You Do?	114 (-12%)
	2023-24	140 (-15%)		140 (-15%)	140 (-15%)		140 (-15%)	62 (+9%)		62 (+9%)		113.921179121781
VsAvg	+26%		0.258102726083843	+5%		0.0509074982390987	-34%		-0.343954343532689	+1%
Rank	5/25		5/25	10/25		10/25	21/25		21/25	12/25

Rating the Ratings

Name	Lo	Avg	Hi	y2y	Plus	Label	Plusy2y	Results
America's Funniest Home Videos*	0.3	0.42	0.6	-12%	112	solid	-1%	detail
American Idol Sun*	0.4	0.54	0.7	-23%	142	hit	-13%	detail
What Would You Do?	0.2	0.26	0.3		70	marginal		detail

America's Funniest Home Videos: A third straight season at low-110s for AFHV, a very high level historically, though I can't help feeling this is becoming a bit of a 60 Minutes situation where the effect of the NBA lead-ins in the spring is becoming more pronounced. I would probably go B- normally but because of the low league average decline I will stick with Grade: B.

American Idol Sun: Same kind of drop as The Voice and the fall The Masked Singer, all of which could've been C- but I upgraded to C. This show did a little worse in the Monday episodes but generally I put more stock into the main night. Not sure why the singing shows all fell off so hard while stuff like The Bachelor and Survivor surged, but it was unmistakable. 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.

Previous Breakdowns for ABC Sunday: 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23

Here's the now updated Schedules Plus for ABC Sunday.