Saturday Final Nationals: NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ Delivers its Second Most-Watched Week Two Telecast in Five Years

For the sixth consecutive week of the college football season, “Saturday Night Football” has helped ABC win the night among households, viewers and all key male and adult demos (M18-34, M18-49, M25-54, P18-34, P18-49 and P25-54). “Saturday Night Football” has been the most-watched prime-time game each week of the 2017 college football season and the most-watched game of the week five of six weeks. On this night, ABC had aired Michigan State’s 14-10 upset win over Michigan. The television audience peaked at 8.858 million viewers as Michigan was driving for a potential game-winning touchdown (11 – 11:15 p.m.).

The Oct. 7 telecast of “Saturday Night Live”, hosted by Gal Gadot (“Wonder Woman”), musical guest Sam Smith and a special appearance by Jason Aldean, averaged 6.802 million viewers overall and a 1.76 rating in adults 18-49 – the show’s second-biggest Week 2 overall viewership in five years, trailing only the presidential election-fueled Oct. 8, 2016 (Lin-Manuel Miranda and Twenty One Pilots — 7.140 million viewers overall, 2.11 rating in adults 18-49), according to “fast official” “live plus same day” results from Nielsen Media Research.

(Sources: ESPN, NBC)

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For the entire week of October 2-8, 2017 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is up 4 percent in viewership (0.801 million vs. 0.771 million) and up 7 percent among Adults 18-49 (525,000 vs. 490,000) from one week earlier; the network is also down 13 percent in viewership (0.801 million vs. 0.916 million) and down 2 percent among Adults 18-49 (525,000 vs. 537,000) from the same week one year ago (October 3-9, 2016). (https://programmingins.wpengine.com/?p=19844)

	PROGRAM	HH	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
8:00	Dragon Ball Super (r)	0.40	670	0.26	334
8:30	Dragon Ball Super	0.50	859	0.36	462
9:00	Rick & Morty (r)	0.43	755	0.33	426
9:30	Rick & Morty (r)	0.55	926	0.44	572
10:00	Family Guy (r)	0.63	1070	0.52	674
10:30	Family Guy (r)	0.75	1198	0.61	781

TOONAMI – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2017

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
11:00	Dragon Ball Super (r)	875	0.46	587
11:30	Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters	800	0.41	526
12:00a	Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders	638	0.33	429
12:30a	Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphana	576	0.30	390
1:00a	Hunter X Hunter	590	0.31	406
1:30a	Lupin the 3rd: Part 4	513	0.27	350
2:00a	Naruto: Shippuden	509	0.28	367
2:30a	Outlaw Star	440	0.24	310
3:00a	Cowboy Bebop (r)	423	0.22	290
3:30a	Attack on Titan (r)	383	0.20	254

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
4:00a	Rick & Morty (r)	397	0.21	271
4:30a	Rick & Morty (r)	478	0.25	316
5:00a	King of the Hill (r)	441	0.23	296
5:30a	King of the Hill (r)	453	0.23	300

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research