NFL, NCIS, FBI Among 2020’s Most-Watched Shows

Super Bowl 54 was the year's highest-rated telecast

The pandemic upended much of the television industry this year, but there was one constant: Football once again dominated the year’s most-watched telecasts and regular series in total viewers, according to new data from Nielsen.

Eight of 2020’s 10 most-watched single telecasts were football games or postgames, while a ninth aired immediately following the Super Bowl. NFL games also took two of the top 10 regularly scheduled prime-time programs of the year, including the No. 1 slot.

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