But did Downton Abbey cover the spread? The PBS series finished second to Super Bowl XLVI among TV viewers.
The Emmy-winning program attracted 4 million viewers at 9 o’clock Sunday, outpacing reruns of CBS’ CSI Miami (3.13 million), Fox’s animated tandem of Family Guy (2.41 million) and American Dad! (2.29 million) and ABC’s The Middle (1.76 million) as the broadcast networks virtually forfeited the night. Those were paltry numbers for those shows, while Downton Abbey wasn’t off by much (its first three episode averaged 4.3 million and the fourth 4.8 million before Sunday’s 4 million).
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