CBS Rings In New Year with Most-Watched Show on TV, THE BIG BANG THEORY

CBS will ring in the new year and the second half of the 2016-2017 season with the most watched show on television, THE BIG BANG THEORY, and more Top 25 shows than any other network. CBS has six of the Top 10 programs and 12 of the Top 25, through 12/25/16.

Top 25 Most Watched Prime Time Series for 2016-2017 Season (9/19/16-12/25/16):

Rank	Program	Network	(000)	# of TC
1	THE BIG BANG THEORY	CBS	19,475	11
2	NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL	NBC	19,439	14
3	NCIS	CBS	18,341	10
4	NBC+NFLN THU NT FOOTBALL	NBC	17,071	5
5	BULL	CBS	16,269	9
6	SUNDAY NIGHT NFL PRE-KICK	NBC	14,776	14
7	THIS IS US	NBC	14,627	10
8	CBS+NFLN THU NT FOOTBALL	CBS	14,594	4
9	BLUE BLOODS	CBS	14,213	10
10	60 MINUTES	CBS	14,178	13
11	THE OT	FOX	13,954	6
12	NCIS: NEW ORLEANS	CBS	13,118	9
13	NCIS: LOS ANGELES	CBS	13,019	10
14	DESIGNATED SURVIVOR	ABC	12,840	10
15	VOICE	NBC	12,566	13
16	DANCING WITH THE STARS	ABC	12,491	10
17	VOICE-TUE	NBC	12,197	12
18	HAWAII FIVE-0	CBS	12,186	11
19	EMPIRE	FOX	12,110	9
20	GREY'S ANATOMY	ABC	11,566	9
21	CRIMINAL MINDS	CBS	11,363	8
22	MADAM SECRETARY	CBS	11,331	10
23	CHICAGO FIRE	NBC	10,995	8
24	FOOTBALL NT AMERICA PT 3	NBC	10,774	14
25	NCIS-ENC (R)	CBS	10,754	2

Source: Nielsen Most Current (9/19/16 -12/25/16)

About the show: Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists - geniuses in the laboratory but socially challenged everywhere else. Enter beautiful, street-smart neighbor Penny, who aims to teach them a thing or two about life. Despite their on-again, off-again relationship in the past, Leonard and Penny have finally gotten married. Even Sheldon has found a female companion, entering into a "relationship agreement" with neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler, and they recently took their relationship to the next level. In their free time, Leonard and Sheldon enjoy fantasy role-playing games with their ever-expanding universe of friends, including fellow scientists Koothrappali, Wolowitz and Wolowitz's adorable microbiologist wife, Bernadette, who is now expecting their first child.

Photo: Michael Yarish/Warner Bros

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