The Breakdown: ABC Sunday in 2025-26 (America's Funniest Home Videos, Betrayal: Secrets and Lies)

It's time for a journey through the ABC Sunday schedule in 2025-26...


fall

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	Avg
2024-25	Movie Night						Movie Night	Movie Night	Movie Night	Movie Night	Movie Night	59
	2024-25	60		60	61		61	58		58	59
2025-26	Movie Night						Movie Night	Movie Night	Movie Night	Movie Night	Movie Night	54 (-9%)
	2025-26	53 (-12%)		52.5441293941295	54 (-10%)		54 (-6%)	54 (-6%)		54 (-6%)	53.823293732816
VsAvg	-50%		-0.502951064342172	-54%		-0.544561525925004	-42%		-0.416703101771263	-49%
Rank	27/27		27/27	27/27		27/27	23/27		23/27	27/27

The Wonderful World of Disney movies deteriorated for ABC, with only The Santa Clause (83) and The Sound of Music (73) able to narrowly escape flop territory.

winter

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	Avg
2024-25	America's Funniest Home Videos (R)	Movie Night					Movie Night	Movie Night	Movie Night	Movie Night	53
	2024-25	76	47					48	48	48		48	53
	2024-25												76	47	48	48	48	48	53
	2024-25	62		62	48		48	48		48		53
2025-26	America's Funniest Home Videos (R)		America's Funniest Home Videos (R)	American Idol (R)				American Idol (R)	American Idol (R)	American Idol (R)	57 (+8%)
	2025-26	82 (+32%)		81.6562670169786	44 (-8%)		44 (-8%)	44 (-8%)		44 (-8%)		56.6151571972792
VsAvg	-23%		-0.227896212181121	-63%		-0.630388616367163	-50%		-0.504212112429524	-46%
Rank	18/27		18/27	26/27		26/27	23/27		23/27	24/27

With American Idol shipped off to Monday, the network pretty much remained dead air in the winter.

spring

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	Avg
2024-25	American Idol				American Idol	American Idol	American Idol	The $100,000 Pyramid		The $100,000 Pyramid	133
	2024-25	171		171	171		171	57		57		133
2025-26	America's Funniest Home Videos (R)		America's Funniest Home Videos (R)	Celebrity Jeopardy! (R)		Celebrity Jeopardy! (R)	Betrayal: Secrets and Lies		Betrayal: Secrets and Lies	75 (-43%)
	2025-26	110 (-36%)		110.413034162239	77 (-55%)		77 (-55%)	39 (-32%)			39 (-32%)	75.3630440069547
VsAvg	-3%		-0.0336290742529235	-42%		-0.420738584327441	-57%		-0.570910304119562	-33%
Rank	16/27		16/27	25/27		25/27	26/27		26/27	24/27

ABC's big Sunday event was supposed to be The Bachelorette, but the network pulled it at the last minute amid a scandal involving the bachelorette. Though the NBA-fueled AFV and repeats were much stronger than in the other periods, they were no help to 10/9c docuseries Betrayal: Secrets and Lies.

Rating the Ratings (about grades)

Name	Lo	Avg	Hi	y2y	Plus	Label	Plusy2y	Results
America's Funniest Home Videos*	0.2	0.36	0.6	-1%	121	solid	+5%	detail
America's Funniest Home Videos Special	0.2	0.24	0.3	-13%	82	marginal	-7%
Betrayal: Secrets and Lies	0.1	0.12	0.1		39	flop

America's Funniest Home Videos: It got the spring NBA bounce as always, but it was actually even in Plus after the new year (perhaps suffering from no Idol pre-tune) and the season's growth year-to-year was really concentrated in the fall. Being at near-league average levels against the end of the afternoon NFL windows is pretty nice. Grade: B+.

The names in this last table link to the shows' War of 18-49 pages. Links with an asterisk(*) have been updated with the new info. Updates to younger shows will come later in the summer.

Previous Breakdowns for ABC Sunday: 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25

Here's the now updated Schedules Plus for ABC Sunday.