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RATINGS RECAP: 12/14/14

ABC
7:00 Backstage with Disney on Broadway
Viewers: 2.9 million, 18-49 demo: 0.5
8:00 Once Upon a Time
Viewers: 5.7 million, 18-49 demo: 1.7
9:00 Barbara Walters 10 Most Fascinating People of 2014
Viewers: 7.8 million, 18-49 demo: 1.4

CBS
7:00 60 Minutes
Viewers: 11.4 million, 18-49 demo: 1.6
8:00 Undercover Boss
Viewers: 8.9 million, 18-49 demo: 1.7
9:00 The Mentalist
Viewers: 8.4 million, 18-49 demo: 1.3
10:00 CSI
Viewers: 7.2 million, 18-49 demo: 1.2

NBC
7:00 Football Night in America
Viewers: 6.1 million, 18-49 demo: 2.1
8:00 NFL Pregame
Viewers: 12.4 million, 18-49 demo: 4.1
8:30 Sunday Night Football
Viewers: 24.3 million, 18-49 demo: 8.6

FOX
7:00 NFL Overrun
Viewers: 17.1 million, 18-49 demo: 5.8
7:30 The OT
Viewers: 12.8 million, 18-49 demo: 4.4
8:00 The Simpsons (Repeat)
Viewers: 5.0 million, 18-49 demo: 2.0
8:30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Viewers: 3.5 million, 18-49 demo: 1.5
9:00 Family Guy (Repeat)
Viewers: 3.2 million, 18-49 demo: 1.5
9:30 Bob's Burgers
Viewers: 2.5 million, 18-49 demo: 1.3

Sunday night had the return of Undercover Boss. After a typical non-football lead-in result for 60 Minutes, Boss premiered to a solid 1.7 demo. It skewed younger than Madam Secretary has been, It will air for a couple weeks on Sunday before moving to Friday for a couple weeks. It seemed to help The Mentalist a bit as that show was down three tenths in viewers but up two tenths in the demo. CSI closed things out down seven tenths in viewers (a series low) and even in the demo. Time to retire this show, but I could see CBS giving it a 13 episode final season next year. A mammoth Sunday night football game between the Cowboys and Eagles gave NBC its best Sunday Night Football numbers since the Saints-Cowboys game on September 28. The Cowboys have played in three of the four Sunday night showdowns that went above an 8 in the demo.

On ABC, the fall finale of Once Upon a Time left the show on a very sour note. After a huge start to its season and the Frozen storyline (it premiered to a 3.5 demo!), it has declined rapidly in the past couple weeks. This result was a series low in total viewers and tied a series low in the demo. ABC is going to need to find yet another storyline to inject life into this show when it returns in March. The annual Barbara Walters "10 Most Fascinating People" special was down big year to year on its new night. After last year's special was billed as the last one, this might really be it as the usually reliable special didn't draw much interest this time around. FOX only had new episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Bob's Burgers. They were slightly up from the last time this scenario happened two weeks ago (though that night didn't have an NFL overrun earlier in the evening).

WINNER OF THE NIGHT: Undercover Boss (CBS)
LOSER OF THE NIGHT: Once Upon a Time (ABC)
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