The Most and Least Watched Post-Super Bowl TV Shows: ‘Friends,’ ‘Glee,’ ‘Blacklist,’ ‘Alias’
Season in and season out, the Super Bowl is the most-watched broadcast across all of television for the calendar year. So when the New England Patriots or the Philadelphia Eagles raise the Lombardi Trophy this weekend, NBC Sports will be celebrating right alongside the winning 53-man roster. Immediately after that, it will be the “This Is Us” turn to pop some champagne while dreaming of ostentatious Nielsen numbers.
The critically acclaimed drama returns on Sunday night in the highly coveted post-Super Bowl time slot. The result is guaranteed to hand “This Is Us” its most-watched episode ever — likely by a landslide — though it remains to be seen just how well it will do.