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Taylor Swift, Jerrod Carmichael, Cara Delevingne and a shirtless Jason Kelce were in good company on Sunday. CBS’s broadcast of the NFL Divisional Playoff game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills averaged 39.3 million total viewers from 7 to 10 p.m. ET on Sunday evening.

The Season 25 premiere of NBC’s Law & Order: SVU was Thursday’s most-watched program while also topping the night in the coveted 18-49 age demographic (5.2 million/0.5).

NBC’s Chicago Fire was Wednesday’s most-watched program, and tied Chicago Med and Chicago P.D. for the night’s highest demo rating.

CBS debuted its newest latenight show on Tuesday and the numbers are. After Midnight, hosted by Taylor Tomlinson, was watched by an average of 686,000 viewers in the 12:37am hour, per Nielsen’s live+same day fast national data. This compares to The Late Late Show with James Corden’s live+same day average of 806,000 for its final season.

ABC World News Tonight, with David Muir, continues to win the evening news ratings race, with all three network newscasts delivering week-to-week total viewer gains, but losing Adults 25-54.

In the latest TV show ratings, Part 1 of NCIS: Sydney‘s Season 1 finale on CBS was Tuesday’s most-watched program, while Fox’s The Floor tied ABC’s Celebrity Jeopardy! for the night’s highest demo rating.

Fox News Digital released a series of ratings data points sourced from Comscore, saying in a statement that, based on the numbers, the group “closed out calendar year 2023 as the top-performing news brand with multiplatform views and minutes.” The company also reported that it saw 9% growth with views and 6% growth with minutes, year over year.

This year’s Emmys had a lot working against them. They were was delayed four months from its usual September spot by Hollywood’s writers and actors strikes, and had to compete with both an NFL playoff game and coverage of the Iowa caucuses in the presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Kevin Hart’s Lift delivered a strong debut with 32.8 million views following its Jan. 12 premiere, making it the most-viewed title this week on the Netflix Top 10 chart and soaring to No. 1 on the English Films List. Falling just beneath that is J.A. Bayona’s survival story Society of the Snow, which landed another 28.1 million views and joins Netflix’s Most Popular Non-English Films List after just 11 days of viewing. The film currently ranks No. 1 on the Non-English Films list.

The first exclusively streaming playoff game boosts the debut of the Ted series on NBCUniversal’s streamer.

The one-hour program which aired from 9-10 p.m. ET, competing directly with CNN’s Republican presidential debate, drew 553,000 average viewers in the key 25-54 demographic. It outpaced CNN’s debate by 68%.

CBS’s NCIS: Sydney was Tuesday’s most-watched program (4.7 million/0.3), while ABC’s Celebrity Jeopardy! (4.4M/0.4)  and Fox’s The Floor tied for the nightly demo win (2.5M/0.4).

The 17.9 million average is the second highest since 2015. Buoyed by increases of at least 24% in two of the five packages, the first year of the league’s new television contracts saw a 17.9 million total from a year ago. (Darron Cummings/AP)

The ceremony on CBS had the benefit of an NFL lead-in, as well as an especially starry gathering that drew Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey, Timothée Chalamet, Kylie Jenner, Leonardo DiCaprio and many more. The night’s biggest winner, Oppenheimer, was also a huge ticket-seller, with nearly $1 billion in box office. Pictured: Golden Globes host comedian Jo Koy (Sonja Flemming/CBS via AP).

In addition to major across-the-board viewership growth during the NFL season, Amazon Prime Video says it had major gains among younger and female viewers in its second year of the Thursday Night Football franchise. Younger 18-34 viewers averaged 2.4 million per game in 2023 — up 14% over a year ago versus its first year Prime Video airing (2.11 million) and 26% higher than the total that Fox/NFL Network earned in 2021 (1.9 million). For its entire 13-game schedule, Nielsen-measured TNF viewership was up 24% to 11.86 million viewers versus a year ago.

ABC’s Celebrity Jeopardy! semifinal was Tuesday’s most-watched show (by a wide margin) and also came out on top in the coveted-and-delicious 18-49 demo. Celeb Jeop! returned from the holiday break to 4.4 million viewers and a 0.5 demo rating, hitting and matching Season 2 highs. ABC’s broadcast of Only Murders in the Building‘s first three episodes averaged 3 mil and a 0.24. On NBC, Night Court’s Season 2 premiere (3.7 million/0.4) was down a tick from the revival’s freshman averages.

The annual special was up 30% in primetime on ABC with an average of about 8.4 million people tuning in from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Meanwhile, the latenight edition posted a whopping 18 million viewers, soaring to 22.2 million by the time the ball dropped in Times Square. As expected, the audience grew as the night went on. By 10:30 p.m., about 10.4 million people were watching, while the first two hours of the show averaged around 7 million. Things fell off after midnight, with the second half of the latenight show only drawing 5.1 million.

This season to date, the broadcast news program has narrowed its viewership gap with ABC by 18%.

Complete broadcast, cable and pay TV ratings ranker for 2023 in total viewers and adults 18-49.

Once again, the popular newsmagazine show is top of its class, also coming in as No. 1 among true crime franchises, for the 2023 broadcast year-to-date. According to Nielsen’s most current data, the series has amassed more than 125 million viewers this year across broadcast, licensing and syndication. Nielsen’s most current data includes viewership tallies from Dec. 26, 2022, to Dec. 14, 2023. Across TV and digital platforms, viewers have consumed 162.5 billion minutes of Dateline, NBCU says.

ABC’s share of the Monday Night Football match-up between the Philadelphia Eagles and Seattle Seahawks averaged 8.3 million total viewers, down 10% week-to-week in audience. On NBC, Password‘s holiday special drew 3 million and a 0.2, down sharply from any of the revival’s solid summer 2022 numbers.

Television usage jumped 5.7% in November, boosted by the Thanksgiving holiday to its highest levels since January, according to Nielsen. Viewing during the week of Thanksgiving was up 14%. Broadcast viewing rose for the fourth consecutive month, while cable dropped to a new low with a 28.3% share. Streaming grew 4%, but its share dipped to 36.1% from 26.6% in October.

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Fox News took the crown as the top-rated cable channel in 2023, the eighth consecutive year it has done so. On a 24-hour total day basis, the network pulled in a daily average of more than 1.2 million viewers including 150,000 in the advertiser-coveted 25 to 54 age demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research data.

With help from the first four episodes of the final season, the Netflix series garnered 943M minutes viewed from November 13 to November 19.

In the latest TV show ratings, CBS’ Survivor dominated Wednesday both in total viewers and in the demo. Survivor rose 10% to a season high in audience (5.2 million viewers) while steady in the demo with a 0.8 rating. The Amazing Race‘s finale similarly hit a season high in audience (3.2 million) while steady in the demo with a 0.4 rating.

Viewership for the fourth Republican debate fell since the last event, drawing more than 4 million for Nexstar’s NewsNation and its simulcast on The CW. But it was a record night for NewsNation, which drew 1.6 million viewers for its debate coverage, the largest audience in its history, according to Nielsen’s early fast national numbers. Another 2.5 million watched the simulcast on The CW, giving it its most watched program since 2018. In the 25-54 demo, NewsNation drew more than 350,000 viewers and The CW drew nearly 500,000. (Gerald Herbert/AP)

NBC’s The Voice and ABC’s Dancing With the Stars finale tied for the Tuesday demo win, while the former delivered the night’s largest audience (5.6 million). DWTS drew just shy of 5 million total viewers along with a 0.4 demo rating with its Season 32 finale, on track for one of its largest audiences of the season.

ABC’s slice of the Monday Night Football pie served 7.6 million total viewers while scoring a 1.3 demo rating — down just 12% and a tenth from last week’s early numbers. Over on Fox, Kitchen Nightmares‘ double-episode season finale did 1.5M/0.2 and then 1.1M/0.1, with the second hour matching and hitting season lows.

NBC Sunday Night Football‘s broadcast of the Packers’ 27-19 win over the Chiefs averaged 19.6 million total viewers, up 50% from last week’s Ravens-Chargers game to mark the largest overnight tally for the franchise since Chiefs-Jets on Oct. 1. In the demo, SNF scored a 4.6 rating, rising 28% to its best tally since Cowboys-49ers on Oct. 8.

ABC‘s The Golden Bachelor drew 5.8 million total viewers and a 0.7 demo rating with its finale, hitting and matching season highs. On CBS, Ghosts UK (2.2M/0.2 and 2M/0.2) was steady in the demo but down sharply in viewers from its first Stateside double-pump.

NBC’s broadcast of Christmas in Rockefeller Center lit up the night with 6.5 million total viewers — up 7% from last year, and easily marking Wednesday’s largest audience — while steady in the demo with a 0.8 rating.

The rivalry game between the No. 2 and No. 3 teams averaged more than 19 million viewers on Fox this past Saturday, marking the largest audience for their matchup since 2006 (when the teams were No. 1 and No. 2). That game holds the audience record with 21 million viewers on ABC. While this game always manages decent viewership, it’s likely this is its peak for a while, given the increased interest in Michigan this season due to head coach Jim Harbaugh’s suspension over an illegal scouting scandal.

ABC’s Dancing With the Stars led Tuesday in the demo (0.5) while NBC’s The Voice delivered the night’s largest audience 5.5 million). On CBS, NCIS: Sydney (4.9M/0.3) matched last week’s early numbers.