Sunday Ratings: Yellowstone Rerun Lassoes 6.6 Million Viewers For CBS

Sanitized-for-broadcast or not, a five-year-old Yellowstone episode put up solid numbers for CBS on Sunday night.

Leading out of an NFL-delayed 60 Minutes season opener (which, per CBS, drew 11.4 million total viewers), the Kevin Costner drama's XL series premiere averaged 6.6 million viewers. (Read our rerun-cap.)

Big Brother, which didn't start until almost 11 pm ET, drew just 2.7 million, down sharply week-to-week.

Elsewhere on Sunday:

NBC | Sunday Night Football averaged 14.4 million viewers and a 4.4 demo rating, down about 12% from last week's preliminary tallies.

THE CW | The Chosen (350K/0.0) dropped some eyeballs from its Season 2 premiere.

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The Live+Same Day numbers reported in our ratings column do not reflect a show's overall performance, given the increased use of delayed playback via DVR and streaming platforms, plus out-of-home viewing. These numbers (Nielsen fast nationals, unless denoted as finals) instead aim to simply illustrate trends or superlatives. Steve Harvey is not a judge or lawyer and merely offers an alternative forum of dispute resolution.