Thursday TV Ratings: NFL Scores With Buccaneers vs. Bears on Fox

Jim Halterman October 9, 2020, 1:30 pm

Tampa Bay Buccaneers v Chicago Bears — Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images

There not may be stadiums full of cheering fans these days due to COVID-19 but primetime NFL games are still pulling in TV fans. The streak continued in Fox’s Thursday, October 8 broadcast of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Chicago Bears, which saw the former beat the latter 19-18. The program was easily the top-viewed program of the night in both the 18-49 demo (3.0 rating) and total viewers (10.1 million).

In regular programming and in the 18-49 demo, CBS’ Big Brother took the lead with a 0.9 rating while ABC’s Celebrity Family Feud grabbed more total viewers (4.8 million). The first of seven final Supernatural episodes began airing on the CW and pulled in a strong 0.4 rating, ranking higher than the premiere of NBC’s pandemic situation comedy, Connecting, which grabbed a 0.3 rating and a slim 1.6 million viewers.

Here’s the breakdown for Thursday, October 8, 2020 (numbers are fast-affiliate based):

Time	Show	Adults 18-49 Rating	Total Viewers (millions)
8 p.m.	NFL Thursday Night Football : Tampa Bay at Chicago (Fox)	3.0	10.1
	Big Brother (CBS)	0.9	3.9
	Celebrity Family Feud (ABC)	0.7	4.8
	Connecting – P (NBC)	0.3	1.6
	Supernatural – P (CW)	0.4	1.1
8:30 p.m.	Closer Look Thursday (NBC)	0.2	1.4
9:00 p.m.	Press Your Luck (ABC)	0.5	3.1
	Dateline NBC (NBC)	0.4	2.4
	Let’s Be Real (Fox)	0.4	1.5
	Young Sheldon – R (CBS)	0.3	2.2
	The Outpost (CW)	0.1	504,000
9:30 p.m.	Mom – R (CBS)	0.2	2.0
10 p.m.	Dateline NBC (NBC)	0.4	2.6
	Match Game (ABC)	0.3	2.4
	Star Trek: Discovery (CBS)	0.2	1.8