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Thursday, December 15, 2022

TV Ratings: Viewers Are There for Harry & Meghan, But NFL Scores


“Harry & Meghan” set a Netflix viewership record for a documentary title, with viewers worldwide spending 81.55 million hours watching the first three episodes in the first four days they were available, according to The L-A Times citing figures released by the streaming service.

The series profiling Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle was Netflix’s second most-streamed program between Dec. 5-11 behind “Wednesday.” The eight episodes of the supernatural-infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years at Nevermore Academy were watched for 269.67 million hours in their third week of release, one week after they were watched for 411.29 million hours, the most for an English-language television series in the service’s history.

“Wednesday” was watched for 1.02 billion hours in its 19 days of release through Sunday, the third Netflix program to top the 1-billion-hours mark within its first 28 days, joining the fourth season of “Stranger Things” and “Squid Game.”

“Troll” was Netflix’s most popular movie, with 52.27 million hours watched in its first full week of release, one week after it set the record for most hours viewed for a non-English-language film when viewers spent 75.86 million hours watching the Norwegian action-adventure film in the first four days it was available.

“Yellowstone” was the top-ranked entertainment program for the fifth time in the five weeks of its fifth season and the week’s highest rated non-sports program, averaging a combined 9.064 million viewers on Paramount Network and CMT. It placed fifth for the week behind two NFL games, the 10-minute “Sunday Night Football” pre-kickoff show and Fox’s 28-minute NFL postgame show, “The OT.”

NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” drew its second-smallest audience of the season’s 14 games but still led the prime-time ratings for the week of Dec. 5-11, with the Chargers’ 23-17 victory over the Miami Dolphins averaging 15.757 million viewers.

The combination of “Sunday Night Football” and three of broadcast television’s four top entertainment programs put NBC atop the network ratings for the 10th time in the season, averaging 5.57 million viewers.

The only weeks NBC did not win this season came when Fox aired coverage of the World Series.

The Tuesday edition of NBC’s singing competition “The Voice” was 11th, averaging 6.479 million viewers.

CBS was second, averaging 4.25 million. Fox was third, averaging 2.77 million viewers. ABC was fourth, averaging 2.73 million.

CBS’ ratings leader was “60 Minutes,” averaging 7.825 million viewers to finish seventh overall and second among non-NFL programs.  CBS also had the top comedy, the most popular program beginning at 10 p.m. and the highest-ranked new series.

“Young Sheldon” averaged 7.179 million viewers, eighth overall and third among non-NFL programs. “Young Sheldon” has led all comedies for each of its eight first-run episodes this season.

“Blue Bloods” averaged 6.057 million viewers, 15th for the week and 10th among non-NFL programs. The Tom Selleck-starring police drama has been the highest-rated 10 p.m. show for all eight of its first-run episodes this season.

“Fire Country” averaged 5.59 million viewers, 16th for the week and 11th among non-NFL programs. It has been the most-watched new series for six of its eight episodes.

Fox’s ratings leader was “The OT,” fourth for the week, averaging 9.508 million viewers. Its non-sports programs were led by “The Simpsons,” which followed “The OT” and was 35th, averaging 3.419 million viewers.

ABC’s ratings were topped by “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune,” 30th for the week, averaging 3.839 million viewers.

The top 20 prime-time programs consisted of two NFL games; three NFL pregame shows; “The OT”; “Yellowstone”; “60 Minutes”; six CBS scripted programs and its alternative series “Survivor”; all three elements of NBC’s “Chicago” franchise; and both episodes of the NBC singing competition “The Voice.”

The Dec. 5 “Monday Night Football” game on ESPN topped the cable rankings, with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 17-16 victory over the New Orleans Saints averaging 10.132 million viewers, third for the week.


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ABC's David Muir, CBS' Norah O'Donnell, BC's Lester Holt

ABC, NBC and CBS’ evening newscasts saw an overall drop in viewership during the week of December 5.

Top-ranked ABC World News Tonight with David Muir still held on to its No. 1 status in the evening news ratings race — meaning it has now defeated its competition from NBC and CBS 210 of the past 211 weeks in average total viewers—and 139 of the last 141 weeks among adults 25-54.

World News Tonight averaged 8.51 million total linear viewers this past week, a -4% decline from the previous week,  but No. 1 on all of U.S. television, excluding sports programming. WNT also averaged 1.37 million viewers from the key demo this past week, according to TV Newser.

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt remains the second-ranked evening newscast, averaging 7.07 million total viewers this past week along with 1.17 million A25-54 viewers during the week of Dec. 5.   CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell averaged 5.16 million total viewers this past week, which is -3% from the previous week. The newscast averaged 813,000 adults 25-54 this past week.


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Fox News Channel was at the top of the cable network rankings, averaging 2.132 million viewers. ESPN finished second following five first-place finishes in six weeks, averaging 2.066 million viewers. MSNBC was third, averaging 1.405 million viewers.

Hallmark Channel was the only other cable network to average more than 1 million viewers for its prime-time programming, averaging 1.3 million viewers.

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TV Newser reports The Five is the most-watched cable news show for the 16th consecutive week. The news talk panel program averaged 3.34 million total viewers during the week of Dec. 5. Tucker Carlson Tonight is second place in total viewers (3.05 million at 8 p.m.), with Jesse Watters Primetime (2.75 million at 7 p.m.), Hannity (2.63 million at 9 p.m.) and Special Report with Bret Baier (2.49 million viewers at 6 p.m.) rounding out the top five.

Tucker Carlson Tonight took the top spot on cable news among adults 25-54, averaging 423,000 viewers from the measurement at 8 p.m. The Five ranks No. 2 (389,000) followed by Hannity (371,000), The Ingraham Angle (315,000) and Jesse Watters Primetime (315,000) rounding out the top five in the key demo.

Fox News had nine of the 10-most-watched cable news shows for the week, with MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber grabbing the No. 10 spot with a 1.6 million total viewer average at 6 p.m.

Additionally, on Sunday at 10 p.m. ET, Fox News aired the premiere episode of the Fox Nation series Yellowstone One-Fifty which averaged more than 1.1 million viewers and 114,000 adults 25-54 — the top cable news show in its timeslot and up +13% over the network’s average in the hour.

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