Tuesday TV Ratings 12/9/25: NBC Wins the Night with Frosty the Snowman and Shrek the Halls, NCIS: Origins and NCIS: Sydney Plummet to Series Lows, Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas Respectable [+ Analysis]

Tuesday TV Ratings 12/9/25: NBC Wins the Night with Frosty the Snowman and Shrek the Halls, NCIS: Origins and NCIS: Sydney Plummet to Series Lows, Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas Respectable [+ Analysis]

Christmas specials Frosty the Snowman (0.34) and Shrek the Halls (0.29) performed well on NBC, while A Motown Christmas (0.20) was a notch below them. NCIS: Origins (0.17, -0.12) collapsed on CBS, while NCIS (0.30, -0.04) and NCIS: Sydney (0.11, -0.04) had more mild declines in comparison. ABC aired The First Christmas (0.25) and a repeat of CMA Country Christmas (0.11). Fox aired reruns of Murder in a Small Town (0.16) and Doc (0.12). WWE NXT (0.09, +0.01) ticked up on the CW. Key: (R) = repeat.

Time	Show	18-49 Rating	18-49 Share	Viewers (mil)	Network
8 PM	Frosty the Snowman (R)	0.34		2.77	NBC
	NCIS	0.30		5.89	CBS
	Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas	0.25		4.45	ABC
	Murder in a Small Town (R)	0.16		1.29	Fox
	WWE NXT	0.09		0.65	CW
8:30 PM	Shrek the Halls	0.29		2.22	NBC
9 PM	A Motown Christmas (R)	0.20		2.24	NBC
	NCIS: Origins	0.17		4.06	CBS
	Doc (R)	0.12		0.99	Fox
10 PM	CMA Country Christmas (R)	0.11		2.13	ABC
	NCIS: Sydney	0.11		2.94	CBS