The MindShare Top 50
NFL Week 5 holds No. 1 at 83.3, down from 87.7, on a lighter Sunday. 49ers–Seahawks in FOX’s late window averaged 26.70 million, the third-largest NFL audience of the season, and FOX’s early window did 17.41 million; Ravens–Falcons drew 17.02 million on Sunday Night Football, NBC’s smallest game of the year, Buccaneers–Cowboys 16.7 million on Prime Video, the biggest Week 5 Thursday game on record, CBS’s singleheader 16.62 million, Falcons–Saints 11.82 million on Monday night and Eagles–Jaguars from London 8.10 million on NFL Network. Seven national windows summed 114.4 million against last week’s 126.5 million, each counted at three hours, with The OT and Football Night in America riding the same line at their own length. College Football Week 6 holds No. 2 (46.0) on the biggest Saturday of the year: Georgia–Alabama drew 12.24 million in ABC primetime, the most-watched game of the season and the largest regular-season audience the rivalry has ever had, and Texas–Oklahoma did 9.82 million earlier in the day, a Red River record; ten national windows summed 41.3 million.
Baseball climbs and Netflix turns over. The Division Series rises from No. 4 to No. 3 (35.8) on a full week of games, led by Yankees–Rays at 4.48 million and Saturday’s winner-take-all Guardians–White Sox Game 5 at 4.4 million, and the League Championship Series is new at No. 4 (25.4) on one game: Dodgers–Brewers drew 10.72 million on FOX Sunday night, the most-watched LCS opener since 2005. Below, Josh Hartnett’s deep-sea thriller, is new at No. 5 (20.2) on 17.0 million views in four days, the biggest Netflix debut ever for a Canadian title; Ben Affleck’s Animals is new at No. 9 (17.0) on 23.8 million views, and Mojo Brookzz’s stand-up special is new at No. 13. East of Eden slips to No. 11 as its views nearly double but Below takes the US top spot, A Different World drops off from No. 6 and UNABOMBER from No. 14. On Prime Video, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is new at No. 16 and Mike Flanagan’s Carrie at No. 20. The morning shows hold: Today at No. 6 (19.1), Good Morning America at No. 8 and CBS Mornings at No. 14, with World News Tonight at No. 12. Premiere week on CBS and NBC puts seven broadcast dramas back on the chart: NCIS re-enters at No. 34 on a 6.45 million premiere, Chicago Fire at No. 35, Law & Order: SVU at No. 40, Chicago Med at No. 45, FBI at No. 47, and NCIS: New York and Sheriff Country are new at No. 48 and No. 49; Tracker climbs from No. 36 to No. 24 and Marshals from No. 28 to No. 17, The Voice rises from No. 23 to No. 10 (16.4) on two nights led by Monday’s 5.07 million, while 60 Minutes falls from No. 16 to No. 42 without a football overrun. Jimmy Kimmel cools from his Brooklyn week, No. 8 to No. 15, and SNL with Shane Gillis and Rosalía rises to No. 18. Music carries four entries against two last week: Drake re-enters at No. 25 on the deluxe HABIBTI (FOMO) week, Olivia Rodrigo sits at No. 28, Taylor Swift falls from No. 5 to No. 30 as the Encore tracks shed more than half their debut streams, and Ella Langley re-enters at No. 44. Other Mommy opened to $27.8 million, double its projection, and misses the chart at No. 56; Verity falls 62% and leaves from No. 31.
On the numbers. The football and baseball entries are floors: windows without a published audience are not counted, and this week that includes ESPN’s Monday studio shows, the CBS 3:30 college window, Tuesday’s two NLDS games and the Valkyries–Aces semifinal on Peacock. Nielsen never published a total audience for Tuesday’s broadcasts of The Voice and Best Medicine, only their ratings among adults 18-49, so those two nights are modeled from the published rating and each show’s adjacent Tuesdays and are marked as such in their entries. The three evening newscasts are scored on Nielsen’s Monday-through-Thursday averages multiplied across the five nights they aired, because Friday was retitled on all three networks. Cable news entries use the published nights, stated in each entry.
Baseball climbs and Netflix turns over. The Division Series rises from No. 4 to No. 3 (35.8) on a full week of games, led by Yankees–Rays at 4.48 million and Saturday’s winner-take-all Guardians–White Sox Game 5 at 4.4 million, and the League Championship Series is new at No. 4 (25.4) on one game: Dodgers–Brewers drew 10.72 million on FOX Sunday night, the most-watched LCS opener since 2005. Below, Josh Hartnett’s deep-sea thriller, is new at No. 5 (20.2) on 17.0 million views in four days, the biggest Netflix debut ever for a Canadian title; Ben Affleck’s Animals is new at No. 9 (17.0) on 23.8 million views, and Mojo Brookzz’s stand-up special is new at No. 13. East of Eden slips to No. 11 as its views nearly double but Below takes the US top spot, A Different World drops off from No. 6 and UNABOMBER from No. 14. On Prime Video, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is new at No. 16 and Mike Flanagan’s Carrie at No. 20. The morning shows hold: Today at No. 6 (19.1), Good Morning America at No. 8 and CBS Mornings at No. 14, with World News Tonight at No. 12. Premiere week on CBS and NBC puts seven broadcast dramas back on the chart: NCIS re-enters at No. 34 on a 6.45 million premiere, Chicago Fire at No. 35, Law & Order: SVU at No. 40, Chicago Med at No. 45, FBI at No. 47, and NCIS: New York and Sheriff Country are new at No. 48 and No. 49; Tracker climbs from No. 36 to No. 24 and Marshals from No. 28 to No. 17, The Voice rises from No. 23 to No. 10 (16.4) on two nights led by Monday’s 5.07 million, while 60 Minutes falls from No. 16 to No. 42 without a football overrun. Jimmy Kimmel cools from his Brooklyn week, No. 8 to No. 15, and SNL with Shane Gillis and Rosalía rises to No. 18. Music carries four entries against two last week: Drake re-enters at No. 25 on the deluxe HABIBTI (FOMO) week, Olivia Rodrigo sits at No. 28, Taylor Swift falls from No. 5 to No. 30 as the Encore tracks shed more than half their debut streams, and Ella Langley re-enters at No. 44. Other Mommy opened to $27.8 million, double its projection, and misses the chart at No. 56; Verity falls 62% and leaves from No. 31.
On the numbers. The football and baseball entries are floors: windows without a published audience are not counted, and this week that includes ESPN’s Monday studio shows, the CBS 3:30 college window, Tuesday’s two NLDS games and the Valkyries–Aces semifinal on Peacock. Nielsen never published a total audience for Tuesday’s broadcasts of The Voice and Best Medicine, only their ratings among adults 18-49, so those two nights are modeled from the published rating and each show’s adjacent Tuesdays and are marked as such in their entries. The three evening newscasts are scored on Nielsen’s Monday-through-Thursday averages multiplied across the five nights they aired, because Friday was retitled on all three networks. Cable news entries use the published nights, stated in each entry.