Oh, and football. Viewers still can’t get enough, which has come as a relief to network executives.

Even with the internal upheaval and the continued migration of viewers to streaming services and premium cable outlets, the networks can still point to one sign of relevance: Their collective audience, while shrinking, is still huge. With several prime-time series moving into midseason hiatus, let’s look at the highlights and lowlights so far.

Reboots Are No Longer a Sure Bet

The good news for the “Murphy Brown” revival on CBS? Its audience is stable.

That’s about it.

The reboot of the classic sitcom has largely been a ratings dud. In the 18-to-49 age bracket, “Murphy Brown” ranks 43rd among entertainment programs, drawing roughly the same number of viewers as “The Cool Kids,” a Friday night comedy on Fox about retirees.

The show, which returned Candice Bergen to a role she inhabited through much of the 1990s, faced several built-in challenges. Many of its stars had been off the air for more than a decade, and episodes from its original run, which ended in 1998, are not available online, meaning it had not been able to cultivate a new audience.

Perhaps more important, the series has failed to generate the kind of buzz it had in the days when Vice President Dan Quayle attacked it for “mocking the importance of fathers” after the title character gave birth to a boy in the 1992 season finale.

Networks have employed the reboot strategy in recent years as a way to give viewers shows that are at once new and familiar. But as the tactic has lost its novelty, it has become less of a sure thing.