TOP 10 PRIMETIME TV PROGRAMS OF 2016 – REGULARLY SCHEDULED Rank Read as: The Oscars on ABC averaged 35.6 million viewers who watched live or via time-shifted viewing within seven days. TOP TV PROGRAMS OF 2016 – SINGLE TELECAST Rank This year, the top time-shifted show gained a 279% lift from seven days of viewing, compared to the 240% that last year’s top time-shifted show gained. Additionally, the lift that time-shifting has given the top shows continues to grow. Last year’s Top 10 time-shifted programs only included one reality show. In fact, the reality genre accounted for almost one-third of the Top 10 list when ranking on the percent lift from time shifted viewing. While the usual drama heavy weights still benefit greatly from Live+7 viewing, reality TV offerings prove it’s not all zombies and dragons. In the end, viewing audiences were the real winners, as they were able to enjoy some compelling content and watch what and when they wanted to via time-shifting. They made names for themselves in legal dramas, both based on fiction and not-so-distant actual events. These underdogs crawled from swirling, suffocating masses during the heat of battle in an effort to reclaim a throne. Underdogs thrived in hit TV dramas as well, extending the reign of what critics suspect is the second golden age of content.
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While the Super Bowl held the top spot for another year in a row, other sporting events, such as the Olympics and World Series cracked the top 10 after being held out in years past. U.S viewers were witnesses to historic comebacks against even more historic odds–from LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers beating the bookmakers to best the Golden State Warriors to the curse-breaking Chicago Cubs defeating the Cleveland Indians to Peyton Manning challenging Father Time himself for a chance to ride off into the sunset with the Lombardi Trophy (in front of one of the largest U.S. There was also an oversupply of sports narratives where the underdogs came out on top. Television in 2016 was all about court rooms, cat fights and comebacks.