Ratings Analysis: ABC's 'Dancing with the Stars' (0.88, +0.21) rose by two-tenths for its season finale and posted its second-highest rating of the season. 'Dancing' was also the evening's top program and seemed to help 'The Good Doctor' (0.49, +0.11) climb to a season high at 10. Over on NBC, 'The Voice' (0.70, -0.11) shed a tenth while 'Ordinary Joe' (0.28, +0.01) picked up a precious hundredth. CBS's annual showing of the 1964 Christmas special 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' (0.58) took a sizable hit, dropping by close to 50% from the 2020 broadcast (1.1). The reruns of 'NCIS' (0.31) and 'NCIS: Hawai'i' (0.26) that came after slightly outpaced Fox's encores of '9-1-1' (0.28/0.25). On the CW, 'All American' (0.16, -0.04) and '4400' (0.06, -0.03) lost four-hundredths and three-hundredths respectively.
Finals Update: 'Dancing with the Stars' (+0.1), 'The Good Doctor' (+0.1), and the repeat of 'NCIS: Hawai'i' (+0.1) adjusted up.
(R) = repeat
(F) = finale