Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Garth Brooks.
CBS: On an otherwise weak night, GARTH BROOKS: LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS towered over everything else at 1.8, better than anything CBS has run all fall in the 9-11PM Friday slot. It was particularly impressive because the special got no lead-in at all from two rerun holiday specials, HOOPS AND YOYO RUIN CHRISTMAS (0.4) and THE ELF ON THE SHELF (0.6).
NBC: GRIMM fell 0.3 to 1.3, but that didn’t hurt DRACULA, which seems to have found its (very low) level at 0.9. The night started with 1.2 for DATELINE, which was up 0.1.
FOX: After 0.6 for a rerun BONES, fresh episodes of RAISING HOPE were each down 0.2 to new low 0.6s.
ABC: The network won the battle of the 8PM Christmas specials, with 1.5s for HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS and SHREK THE HALLS, although those numbers were way down from last year’s non-Friday airings. After 1.2 for a rerun SHARK TANK, 20/20 was down a big 0.7 from last week to 0.9.
CW: Despite a slightly better lead-in from GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER at 0.4, NIKITA stayed at 0.2.
College football airs on ABC and FOX tonight, with reruns on the other networks. On Sunday, ABC has the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie CHRISTMAS IN CONWAY, and HBO premieres the final season of TREME, but the non-football event of the night is sure to be AMC’s midseason finale of THE WALKING DEAD.
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