American Idol returned for its third season on ABC on Sunday, with the venerable music competition show scoring a night-leading 1.5 Live+Same Day rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 8.05 million total viewers.
Fellow 7 PMer 60 Minutes (0.6, 8.08M) was the night’s most-watched program, helping CBS to the nightly viewership win.
It still bested the Live+SD averages in the time period logged by the final season of Madam Secretary earlier in the season.
Zoey’s 9 PM result marked NBC’s highest in-season 18-49 rating in the slot since May (excluding sports and the Golden Globes).
Family Guy (0.6, 1.62M) wrapped the animated block’s night in its first time in originals since January 5.
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