Football triumphs in primetime

Despite another National football league blowout in primetime, NBC obtained its typical victory with "Sunday Evening Football," while favorite anecdotes and treehouses of horror brought scripted programming.The Philadelphia Eagles' 34-7 romp within the Dallas Cowboys came a really preliminary 8.2 rating and 19 share among audiences 18-49 and 19.3 million audiences overall. This figure, which figures to revise upward once the mid-day amounts are available in, came even though TV viewing in Philadelphia was restricted through the weekend snow storm within the northeast. "Sunday Evening Football" lost simply to an overrun of CBS' mid-day National football league coverage (9.1/26, 27.9 million) that bled in to the first halfhour of primetime. That consequently assisted raise the overall audience of "an hourInch (4.2/11, 18.3 million), which featured interviews with charged Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff's wife Ruth and boy Andrew.CBS adopted with "The Astonishing Race" (2.9/7, 10.9 million), "The Great Wife" (2./5, 10.two million) and "CSI: Miami" (2./6, 9.5 million).At 8 p.m., ABC's "Not so long ago" (3.9/9, 11.six million) virtually matched up its week-ago premiere amounts and was capped in scripted efforts among audiences 18-49 only through the 22nd "Treehouse of Horror" episode of "The Simpsons" (4./10, 8. million). Roughly 40% of fans from the latter left before looking at the series premiere of Jonah Hill animated project "Allen Gregory" (2.4/6, 4.7 million). Leading the 9 p.m. timeslot within the demo among non-sports programming was Fox's "Family Guy" (3.2/7, 6. million) and ABC's "Desperate Average women" (3.1/7, 9.3 million). At 10 p.m., ABC's "Pan Am" (1.9/5, 5.six million) continued to be relatively consistent.Preliminary 18-49 earnings for that evening: NBC 6.7/16, CBS 3.7/9, Fox 2.7/7, ABC 2.5/6.As a whole audiences: NBC 16.8 million, CBS 14.5 million, ABC 7.9 million, Fox 5.six million. Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com