60 MINUTES made the Nielsen top 10 for the fifth straight time, drawing 10.52 million viewers to finish at #5, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Oct. 24. The CBS newsmagazine also made the top 10 in adults 25-54, ranking eighth.

60 MINUTES finished in the top 5 in viewers for the second consecutive week, and the third time in the first five weeks of the television season.

Sunday’s 60 MINUTES featured Scott Pelley’s interview with former Saudi Arabia intelligence official Saad Aljabri, a Bill Whitaker report on the drought crisis facing millions of Colorado River water users, and a profile of actor Michael Keaton by Jon Wertheim.

Bill Owens is the executive producer of 60 MINUTES, America’s most-watched news program.

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