NEW YORK -- The television ratings makes it look like CBS was the only broadcast network working last week.
Take away Sunday's NFL broadcast and its pregame shows on NBC, plus "The Simpsons" on Fox, and every show in the Nielsen Co.'s top 20 was on CBS.
CBS dominated with regular series like "NCIS" and "The Big Bang Theory," and the "Survivor: Samoa" finale. Twelve of the network's regular, nonsports series last week were seen by more than 10 million people; the other networks had none.
Over on cable, the Kardashians continued to deliver for the E! Entertainment network. Sunday night's "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" special had 4.2 million viewers, the most-watched program in E! Entertainment's history, Nielsen said.
CBS averaged 11.5 million viewers in prime-time last week (7.0 rating, 12 share), a huge margin over second-place NBC's 7.3 million (4.5, 8). Fox averaged 6.7 million viewers (4.1, 7), ABC had 4.9 million (3.1, 5), the CW had 1.5 million (1.0, 2) and ION Television had 1.2 million (0.7, 1).
On his farewell "World News" broadcast on ABC last Friday, Charles Gibson beat NBC's "Nightly News" by 250,000 viewers, Nielsen said. NBC and Brian Williams won the week, however, making it 61 wins out of the last 62. "Nightly News" averaged 9.2 million viewers for the week (6.0 rating, 11 share), "World News" had 8.5 million (5.7, 11) and the "CBS Evening News" had 6.2 million (4.2, 8).
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1. "NCIS," CBS, 20.69 million.
2. NFL Sunday Night Football: Minnesota vs. Carolina, NBC, 18.19 million.
3. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 17.5 million.
4. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 16.37 million.
5. "The Mentalist," CBS, 15.77 million.
6. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 15.58 million.
7. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 15.58 million.
8. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 14.68 million.
9. "CSI: Miami," CBS, 14.18 million.
10. "The Good Wife," CBS, 14.17 million.
