Giants-Packers game scores for Fox

GREEN BAY — The biggest show in prime time was huge Sunday night, and it wasn’t the Golden Globes.

Early ratings show the New York Giants-Green Bay Packers divisional playoff pulling 40.1 million viewers to Fox in the 6 p.m. hour. The Giants won, 37-20.

The Golden Globes averaged 14 million viewers for NBC over three hours. We’ll have updated ratings later today.

Here are the prime-time broadcast averages: Fox wtih 20.2 million, NBC with 12.3 million, CBS with 9.2 million and ABC with 6.7 million. Fox won the 18-to-49 age group by a wide margin; NBC was second.

Fox followed football with animation: “The Simpsons” with 15.7 million viewers, the premiere of “Napoleon Dynamite” with 9.5 million, “Family Guy” with 8.5 million and a second “Napoleon Dynamite” with 7.2 million.

CBS aired “60 Minutes” (8.7 million), “Undercover Boss” (11.6 million), “The Good Wife” (9.3 million) and a repeat of “CSI: Miami” (7.1 million).

ABC presented “America’s Funniest Home Videos” (5.1 million), “Once Upon a Time” (9.8 million), “Desperate Housewives” (7.8 million) and “Pan Am” (3.9 million).

In Orlando, the Giants-Packages game averaged 559,800 viewers, which was bigger than anything that started in prime time. Rounding out the top five were “The Simpsons” with 239,300 viewers, the Golden Globes with 232,300, “Once Upon a Time” with 159,400 and “Undercover Boss” with 134,700.

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