🐷 The Muppets Show return averaged 3.07M viewers, abysmal NFL Pro-Bowl, and more!

Plus, a look at self-reported viewership from media outlets and from market-research leaders like Luminate, Nielsen, SambaTV, and more!

Feb 06, 2026

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According to Deadline, 14.4M people tuned in to the 68th Grammy Awards. This is a about 6.5% decrease from last year’s telecast and marks the second year of decline.
According to Deadline, the FOX broadcast network had its best midseason launch in 14 years. Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch called out the premieres of Best Medicine, Fear Factor and Memory of a Killer, all of which exceeded 11M viewers across platforms in their first week.
Data from Programming Insider showcases that the return of The Muppets Show averaged 3.07M viewers on ABC.
January 31st’s Saturday Night Live earned 4.8M viewers on NBC’s broadcast with host Alexander Skarsgård.
Rebecca Bunch of The TV Ratings Guide reports that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode three scored 470K viewers on HBO’s cable network. She also showcases that AMC’s Rise of the 49ers docuseries scored a total 960K viewers on their cable network.
Nielsen’s Top Ten data (below) showcases that The Pitt’s Season 2 premiere earned 939M minutes viewed, a 10% increase from the series’ best (last season’s finale).
The ratings of ABC’s High Potential shows no signs of slowing down midway through its second season. The series delivered its biggest seven-day audience to date with the Jan. 20 episode, drawing 12.98M viewers after a week of streaming and other delayed viewing. That’s more than double its first-night total of 5.93M viewers, per The Hollywood Reporter.
The release of Amazon’s Melania documentary appears to have sparked an interest in other former first ladies. Netflix‘s Michelle Obama documentary Becoming saw a substantial rise in U.S. viewership over the weekend according to Luminate data. The feature, which was released in May 2020, jumped 13,300% in total minutes viewed versus the weekend prior, putting up 47.5M viewing minutes from January 30-February 1, per Deadline.
Variety reports American Idol returned for Season 24 (ABC’s Season 9) on Jan. 26 with its most-watched premiere in four years, averaging 8.27M viewers in live and multiplatform viewing — including ABC, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+ and digital platforms.

Sports Viewership Roundup

🏈 NFL

The 2026 NFL Pro Bowl registered a record-low 1.9M viewers, a 60% audience decrease according to Awful Announcing. Be on the lookout for a Data Crunch on the All-Star/Pro-Bowl format and whether we think the format is dying.

🏫 NCAA Athletics

According to FOX PR, FS1 earned its most-watched college basketball game ever with 1.366M viewers tuning in for the Illinois Fighting Illini’ victory over the Nebraska Cornhuskers on Sunday.
ESPN PR reports that the Women’s College Basketball matchup between the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners averaged 1.1M viewers. Overall, Women’s College Basketball on ESPN networks are pacing up 39% year-over-year.
ESPN PR announces that ESPN networks held 6 of the top 7 games of the week (January 26 - February 1) in Men’s College Basketball. The game between the Kentucky Wildcats and the Arkansas Razorbacks earned 2.4M viewers, the matchup between the Kansas Jayhawks and Brigham Young Cougars gained 2.1M viewers, and the game between the Florida Gators and the Alabama Crimson Tide earned 1.6M viewers.
FOX PR reports the Michigan Wolverine’s win over Michigan State Spartans on FOX College Basketball Friday scored 2.764M viewers. This is the fifth most-watched men’s college hoops game ever on the network.
FOX PR announces that the UConn Huskies’s victory over Tennessee Volunteers delivered 1.2M viewers Sunday. This is the most-watched Women’s College Basketball game on any network season to-date.
Griffin Senyek of FrontOfficeSports reports that FOX’s men’s basketball viewership up 69% this season on FOX averaging 1.37M viewers per game, and a 38% increase on cable network FS1. FOX’s women’s basketball coverage on FOX is up 8% and on FS1 audience increased by 12%.

🏀NBA

NBC PR reports that the Lakers-Knicks game earned 4.5M viewers on NBC and Telemundo. This was the most-watched regular season Sunday night NBA game since 2002. The Thunder-Nuggets match-up earned 2.9M viewers on both networks. This is the most-watched Sunday late primetime game to record (excluding Christmas Day).

🏒NHL

ESPN PR announces that the matchup between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Boston Bruins averaged 2.1M viewers. This is the most-viewed regular season NHL game since January 2019, the most-viewed regular season NHL game on cable, and ESPN’s most-viewed regular season NHL game on record. Thru 22 games, NHL on ESPN networks is averaging 795k viewers (+39% year-over-year).
ESPN PR showcases that the New York Rangers- Pittsburgh Penguins game averaged 1.4M viewers (+68% increase vs. last season’s NHL on ABC coverage) and the Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings game averaged 1.2M viewers (+38% increase vs. last season’s NHL on ABC coverage).

⚽ Soccer provided by Helltown Beer

Premier League: Arsenal vs. Aston Villa (Jan 18th): This match hit 1.2M viewers across NBC and Peacock. NBC noted this season is pacing historically strong, even if linear numbers have flattened slightly as more fans migrate to Peacock.
LigaMX: During a recent press event, LigaMX highlighted that fans on ViX are streaming an average of 82 minutes per match, indicating that the streaming audience is staying for nearly the entire game plus halftime/post-game content. ViX reportedly has 50M monthly users.

Other

Check out our Weekly Wrestling Viewership Thread; WWE Raw failed to rank in Netflix’s Top Ten once again, and more!
FOX PR scores the most-watched Westminster Dog Show Masters Agility Championship since 2019 with 1.2M viewers. This is 57% increase from last year’s event.
The Australian Open on ESPN and ESPN2 was the event’s most-watched in six years, with the men’s championship averaging 730K viewers up 57% year-over-year.
The X Games in Aspen reached a total of 15.2M viewers. The 2026 broadcast on ABC and ESPN put up the largest audience with the 2-17 crowd in five years, with a 102% annual audience increase among the youth demographic, per Deadline.