Great Britain's monarchy apparently still has a hold on its former colonies.
Two specials about Queen Elizabeth II and the celebration of her 70th year on the throne broke into last week’s top 20 highest-rated programs in prime time, according to The Associated Press citing Nielsen figures out Tuesday.
ABC’s “Party at the Palace,” a star-laden concert that included Elton John, Diana Ross and Queen with Adam Lambert, ranked No. 15. The CBS News documentary “Her Majesty the Queen,” hosted by Gayle King, came in at No. 18. A skit of the queen taking tea with an animated Paddington Bear charmed the throng of spectators at the Platinum Jubilee pop concert outside Buckingham Palace. The pre-taped video also proved widely irresistible online.
The first two games of the Golden State Warriors-Boston Celtics NBA finals topped the ratings, but viewers also had time for a special prime-time episode of “The Price Is Right” honoring first responders.
Powered by basketball, ABC led the week in prime time, averaging 4.4 million viewers. CBS had 3.1 million, NBC had 2.5 million, Fox had 1.5 million, Univision had 1.3 million, Telemundo had 890,000 and Ion Television had 870,000.
📺Top 20 Prime-Time TV Shows (Total Viewers)
1. NBA Finals Game 2: Boston at Golden State (Sunday), ABC, 11.9 million.
2. NBA Finals Game 1: Boston at Golden State, (Thursday), ABC, 11.4 million.
3. “60 Minutes Presents,” CBS, 6.8 million.
4. “America’s Got Talent, (Tuesday)” NBC, 6.3 million.
5. NBA Finals Post-Game 2, ABC, 6.27 million.
6. “FBI,” CBS, 4 million.
7. “The Price is Right,” CBS, 3.98 million.
9. NBC Countdown Game 1, ABC, 3.8 million.
10. “Equalizer,” CBS, 3.6 million.
11. “Let’s Make a Deal,” CBS, 3.5 million.
12. “FBI: International,” CBS, 3.45 million.
13. “20-20 (Friday),” ABC, 3.44 million.
14. “Party at the Palace,” ABC, 3.44 million.
15. “FBI: Most Wanted,” CBS, 3.4 million.
16. “NCIS,” CBS, 3.2 million.
17. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 3.14 million.
18. “Her Majesty the Queen,” CBS, 3.13 million.
19. “United States of Al,” CBS, 3.12 million.
20. “Jimmy Kimmel Live: NBA Finals Game Night,” ABC, 3.11 million.
📺BROADCAST NEWS
ABC’s “World News Tonight” won the evening news competition with an average of 7.2 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 6.1 million and the “CBS Evening News” tallied 4.3 million.
David Muir averaged 7.4 million total viewers and 1.34 million adults 25-54 for the week of May 30, making it once again the most-watched show (in total viewers) on U.S. TV, excluding sports and syndicated programming. ABC’s evening newscast has now defeated its competition from NBC and CBS 183 of the past 184 weeks in average total viewers—and 112 of the last 114 weeks among adults 25-54.
📺LATE NIGHT
📺CABLE
Fox News Channel was the most-watched basic cable network in total day (1.33 million) and in primetime (2.01 million) during the week of May 30, which started with the Memorial Day holiday. According to TV Newser, the cable news powerhouse also averaged more total primetime viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined for the 47th consecutive week, according to live-plus-same-day data from Nielsen.
As expected, viewership was down from the previous week for all three major cable news outlets. Fox News’ 2 million total viewer average in primetime is -9% from what the network averaged in the daypart during the non-holiday week of May 23. Fox also averaged 290,000 adults 25-54 in primetime, which is -20% from the week prior and No. 3 behind networks broadcasting postseason play, ESPN (674,000) and TNT (527,000).
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The Five was the most-watched show of the week, both in total viewers (3.19 million) and among adults 25-54 (469,000). Tucker Carlson Tonight came in second in average total viewers (2.97 million) followed by Jesse Watters Primetime at No. 3 ( 2.53 million viewers at 9 p.m.), Hannity at No. 4 (2.46 million at 7 p.m.) and Special Report with Bret Baier (2.285 million viewers at 6 p.m.) rounding out the five-most-watched. Hannity averaged the third-most adults 25-54 on cable news (349,000), edging Jesse Watters Primetime (348,000) and The Ingraham Angle/Special Report (321,000 each).
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Fox News as a network secured the 15-most-watched cable news shows of the week and the entire top 15 among the key A25-54 demo.
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