'Brother,' football strong on Sunday

NBC won Sunday's primetime rankings race using its preseason National football league game between your Saints and Raiders, but CBS staple ''Big Brother'' organized nicely and ABC's ''20/20: The Sixth Sense'' enhanced in the second week. Based on preliminary national estimations from Nielsen, the football contest between New Orleans and Concord averaged a couple.9 rating/7 be part of grown ups 18-49 and 8.4 million audiences overall on NBC's stations from 8 to 11 p.m., with one of these amounts susceptible to notable revision because of time zone variations across the nation. Regardless, the Peacock was poised to face because the No. 1 broadcast network about the evening in 18-49, 25-54 and total audiences. At CBS, following ''60 Minutes'' (1./3 in 18-49, 7.9 million audiences overall), ''Big Brother'' averaged a powerful 2.9/8 in 18-49 and 7.7 million audiences overall throughout the 8 o'clock hour , lower a little versus. last week's season high but enough to become competitive with football within the preliminaries. The Attention did not do much the relaxation of how, though, with encores of ''The Good Wife'' (.7/2 in 18-49, 3.7 million audiences overall) and ''CSI: Miami'' (.8/2 in 18-49, 4.4 million audiences overall). ABC had its most powerful Sunday from the summer time with regular programming, as repeats of ''America's Funniest Home Videos'' (1.4/5 in 18-49, 6.3 million audiences overall) and ''Extreme Transformation: Home Edition'' (1.3/3 in 18-49, 5.5 million audiences overall) were both up a few ticks week to week. And from 9 to 11 p.m., the limited-run news series ''20/20: The Sixth Sense'' also enhanced (1.6/4 in 18-49, 6. million audiences overall), giving the Alphabet its most powerful showing in demos with regular Sunday 9-11 p.m. programming in 3 years. Fox was about the low side of their summer time range with repeats of ''American Dad'' (.8/3 in 18-49, 1.8 million audiences overall), ''Bob's Burgers'' (.8/3 in 18-49, 1.8 million audiences overall), ''The Simpsons'' (1.1/3 in 18-49, 2.7 million audiences overall), ''The Cleveland Show'' (1.1/3 in 18-49, 2.six million audiences overall) and ''Family Guy'' (1.5/4 in 18-49, 3.two million audiences overall) then original sketch comedy show ''In the Flow with Affion Crockett'' (1./2 in 18-49, 2.two million audiences overall). Preliminary 18-49 earnings for that evening: NBC, 2.5/7 ABC, 1.5/4 CBS, 1.4/4 Univision, 1.2/3 Fox, 1.1/3. As a whole audiences: NBC, 7.3 million ABC, 6. million CBS, 5.9 million Univision, 3.3 million Fox, 2.4 million. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com