The highest rated show was the special coverage of the death of Princess Diana. All local and major news sources talked about her accident and tragic death that year with over a million views for most news stations and 1.7million for One News.
Seinfeld. E.R. was number two.
As of 2013 the highest rated scripted show is "NCIS".
Simpsons
Spongebob
Scandal
ER was the highest rated show for the 1995-1996 television season.
"American Idol."
The telenovela, La Que No Podía Amar, is the highest-rated TV show among the Latino audience. The show airs on Univision, and attracts 5.2-million viewers.
Gunsmoke
Apparently so, to its millions of viewers -- it's not only the highest rated comedy on TV, it's the highest rated show of ANY kind on TV.
Bonanza was the highest rated show in 1965, 1966 and 1967.
Big Bang Theory has been the highest rated comedy for the past three years.