Buccaneers NBC. Bears NBC. Ravens NBC. Vikings NBC. Ravens ESPN. Chiefs CBS. Buccaneers ESPN. Rams NBC. Rays Fox. Giants ESPN. Bears ESPN. Cowboys ESPN. L7 Data. Eagles NBC. Chargers ESPN. Instead, it was the tragic middle, the point at which both tried to deal with living separate lives.
The Thorn Birds showed audiences how amazing a serialized story could be. They just keep you coming back for more. The Cheers series finale was truly the end of an era. Cheers was a cultural experience shared regularly by tens of millions. Cheers ended beautifully, and millions tuned in to watch it unfold.
The show was over, and it was time to go on. After all, the bar was closed. The Fugitive may be best known today as a Harrison Ford movie, but that movie was based on an incredibly popular television show from the s. In many ways, The Fugitive provided a model for modern drama, combining elements of procedural storytelling with one overarching narrative. That hook is precisely what forced viewers to tune in in such large numbers for the finale.
In the end, The Fugitive left millions of Americans satisfied, and paved the way not only for a film, but for much of the television that would come after it. Roots gripped America from its very first moment, in part because of its limited nature. In giving the country a shorter experience, though, it encouraged massive numbers of people to watch it to completion. As the series caught steam, it caught audience members as well.
By the time the show reached its final episode, it had enthralled the nation, which is fitting. Roots was a story about the horrors of slavery, but it was also a story about its lasting impact, even today. Kunta Kinte had strength, and his descendants followed his lead. It deserved nothing less.
This episode garnered so many viewers for one reason. Everyone had to know who had shot J. Dallas is perhaps most famous for this cliffhanger, which left audiences unsure about who had shot one of the main characters for an incredible length of time.
Following a middling ratings performance in its freshman year, All in the Family zoomed to the top of the rankings in its sophomore season, thanks to electric episodes such as "Sammy's Visit," in which entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
Dallas ' top-rated Season 4 was one for the record books: An estimated 83 million people tuned in the soap on Nov. Ewing in the previous season's finale. Retro spoiler alert: The trigger was pulled by Kristin Shepard, J.
This Cosby Show Nielsen performance marks the best showing of any post, post-cable show on our list. In its first season, The Beverly Hillbillies , the sitcom about the antics of West Coast transplants, the Clampetts, rode straight to the top of the Nielsen ratings. The Emmy-nominated Irene Ryan starred as Granny. In the season, the show, starring James Arness as U. Marshall Matt Dillon, scored its fourth straight ratings crown. In its second season, The Beverly Hillbillies was bigger than ever.
The critically unloved show fell out of the Top 10 the following year, and never fully regained its ratings magic for the rest of its run. Nonetheless, it scores points as the only sitcom of the s to win a Nielsen race, much less two. Gunsmoke star James Arness is seen at the Primetime Emmys, circa the late s. Gunsmoke scored its first ratings win in Season 3. More than a decade later, in a demonstration of its remarkable longevity, it nearly notched a fifth-career crown, when, following a Nielsen lull, it climbed to No.
This comet of a show -- only the second game show on our list -- soared to the top of the Nielsen ratings just months after its premiere. In a way, primetime personality Arthur Godfrey was the host of the original American Idol : CBS' Talent Scouts was a ratings-dominant show that spotlighted up-and-coming singers though it wasn't specifically a singing competition. Hollywood legend has it that Elvis Presley auditioned for -- and got rejected by -- the show.
During I Love Lucy 's No. It had to be I Love Lucy. The No. Close Ad. Live TV. New This Month. What's New to Stream in January. More TV Picks. Joal Ryan May 1, , p. Nielsen rating: NCIS NCIS 's top-rated 10th season began where its much-watched ninth season left off: with the team, including Pauley Perrette 's Abby Sciuto, digging out from a terror bombing that leveled their headquarters.
American Idol Country crooner Scotty McCreery's crowning as American Idol ' s Season 10 champ was a turning point for the then-Fox singing competition: It marked the last time to date that the powerhouse franchise finished as TV's No. Friends From , Friends made six stars of its ensemble cast , but claimed only one ratings title. American Idol This was not just any other top-rated season for American Idol. A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine in order to secure his family's future.
TV 42 min Crime, Drama, Fantasy. Lucifer Morningstar has decided he's had enough of being the dutiful servant in Hell and decides to spend some time on Earth to better understand humanity.
He settles in Los Angeles - the City of Angels. TV 44 min Drama, Fantasy, Horror. Two brothers follow their father's footsteps as hunters, fighting evil supernatural beings of many kinds, including monsters, demons and gods that roam the earth. TV 44 min Action, Crime, Drama. Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside.
TV 43 min Crime, Drama, Mystery. A group of ambitious law students and their brilliant criminal defense professor become involved in a twisted murder plot that promises to change the course of their lives.
TV 41 min Action, Drama, Fantasy. An average high school student and his best friend get caught up in some trouble causing him to receive a werewolf bite. As a result they find themselves in the middle of all sorts of dramas in Beacon Hills. A young woman with a troubled past is drawn to a small town in Maine where fairy tales are to be believed. A chronicled look at the criminal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, as well as the many other drug kingpins who plagued the country through the years.
A blind lawyer by day, vigilante by night. Matt Murdock fights the crime of New York as Daredevil. Follows the personal and professional lives of six twenty to thirty-something-year-old friends living in Manhattan. TV 22 min Comedy, Romance. A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother. TV 44 min Comedy, Drama.
On the run from a drug deal gone bad, brilliant college dropout Mike Ross finds himself working with Harvey Specter, one of New York City's best lawyers.
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