Many viewers seem to have started their holidays early.
DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2).
Ratings analysis and comparisons follow the chart.
ABC: The night began with the latest run of 1973’s A CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING, up 0.1 from last year’s airing (which was on the week’s Wednesday night) to 2.2. The 2-hour cycle finale of DANCING WITH THE STARS was the highest rated show of the night, but at 2.4 it was down 0.6 from last year’s fall finale.
CBS: NCIS, NCIS: NEW ORLEANS and LIMITLESS were all down 0.1 from last week, respectively to 2.1, 1.6 and 1.3.
NBC: THE VOICE fell half a point to 2.1, which wasn’t good news for CHICAGO MED, down 0.4 from last week’s premiere to 1.8. CHICAGO FIRE was more stable, down 0.1 to 1.8.
FOX: An ugly night, as nothing in the line-up could even crack a 1.0: GRANDFATHERED was down 0.1 to 0.9, THE GRINDER fell 0.2 to 0.7, and SCREAM QUEENS dropped 0.1 to 0.8.
CW: A GREATEST HOLIDAY COMMERCIALS COUNTDOWN special was at 0.4, followed by a 0.3 rerun of THE FLASH.
Although November sweeps continues through tonight, only CBS and FOX are all-new this pre-holiday evening. NBC airs an informercial for its upcoming live production of THE WIZ and then an SNL clip show, ABC is in reruns, and CW has a run of PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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