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‘Thursday Night Football’ Tops Nightly Ratings; ‘Supernatural’ Returns, ‘Connecting’ Debuts
Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorA Thursday Night Football game that saw the Chicago Bears and Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers go down to the wire helped Fox to the top spot in Thursday’s primetime ratings, with the game scoring a 2.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 10.07 viewers.The Bears’ victory did see the broadcast well off from CBS’ Monday one-off New England-Kansas City game in broadcast primetime (3.6, 12.7 million) in early Nielsen Live+Same Day data, but last night’s numbers will likely adjust in the finals later today.Last night also saw the return of Supernatural (0.4, 1.13M) in the first of the longtime CW supernatural drama’s final seven episodes in its delayed final season.
