Ten million people watched “The Voice” last week, the biggest audience for the NBC reality show in a year.

It was no match for another nonfiction program: the nightly newscast.

As Americans, housebound because of the coronavirus crisis, watch more TV than usual, they have returned to the network news programs that have not been at the center of the national conversation for years.

ABC’s “World News Tonight” and the “NBC Nightly News” had an average of about 12 million viewers for their newscasts last week, among the biggest totals for all network shows, according to Nielsen. That’s roughly the same as the average for “Monday Night Football.”

The audience for “World News Tonight” was its largest since 2000, and the number of viewers watching “NBC Nightly News” was the most the show had drawn since 2005.