Football triumphs in primetime

Despite another Nfl blowout in primetime, NBC acquired its typical victory with "Sunday Evening Football," while favorite anecdotes and treehouses of horror introduced scripted programming.The Philadelphia Eagles' 34-7 romp inside the Dallas Cowboys came a very preliminary 8.2 rating and 19 share among audiences 18-49 and 19.3 million audiences overall. This figure, which figures to revise upward when the mid-day amounts can be found in, came despite the fact that TV viewing in Philadelphia was restricted with the weekend snow storm inside the northeast. "Sunday Evening Football" lost only to an overrun of CBS' mid-day Nfl coverage (9.1/26, 27.9 million) that bled to the first halfhour of primetime. That consequently aided enhance the overall audience of "an hourInch (4.2/11, 18.3 million), which featured interviews with billed Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff's wife Ruth and boy Andrew.CBS adopted with "The Astounding Race" (2.9/7, 10.9 million), "The Truly Amazing Wife" (2./5, 10.2 million) and "CSI: Miami" (2./6, 9.5 million).At 8 p.m., ABC's "Not such a long time ago" (3.9/9, 11.6 000 0000) virtually matched up up its week-ago premiere amounts and was assigned in scripted efforts among audiences 18-49 only with the 22nd "Treehouse of Horror" episode of "The Simpsons" (4./10, 8. million). Roughly 40% of fans in the latter left before searching in the series premiere of Jonah Hill animated project "Allen Gregory" (2.4/6, 4.7 million). Leading the 9 p.m. timeslot inside the demo among non-sports programming was Fox's "Family Guy" (3.2/7, 6. million) and ABC's "Desperate Regular folksInch (3.1/7, 9.3 million). At 10 p.m., ABC's "Pan Am" (1.9/5, 5.6 000 0000) ongoing to become relatively consistent.Preliminary 18-49 earnings for your evening: NBC 6.7/16, CBS 3.7/9, Fox 2.7/7, ABC 2.5/6.In general audiences: NBC 16.8 million, CBS 14.5 million, ABC 7.9 million, Fox 5.6 000 0000. Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com