So beyond all things football-related, such as NBC’s commercial-lite Sunday Night Football coverage and Fox’s The OT (as well as the last bit of the afternoon games), The Orville had the highest demo of anything else that aired that night.
There’s no denying that the NFL was king of the night, though, with Sunday Night Football getting an uptick in its numbers after a year of hearing about its ratings declines, bringing in 21.5 million people, with an 8.0 demo rating.
On top of the impressive totals, The Orville managed to rope in an impressive crowd within the key 18-49 age demographic, as it earned a 2.3 rating, according to TVByTheNumbers.
And 60 Minutes, with its Steve Bannon interview, was the only other non-football programming to welcome a bigger audience, with 8.16 million tuning in.