Friday TV Ratings 11/25/22: The Grinch and Trolls Holiday in Harmony Barely Down, Frosty and Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer Slump, College Football Dominates (UPDATED)

Finals Update: College Football: FL v FL St (+0.4), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (+0.1) and Frosty the Snowman (+0.1) adjusted up.

Analysis to come.

Friday TV Ratings 11/26/21: 5 More Sleeps ’Til Christmas and Trolls Holiday in Harmony Modest in Premieres, The Grinch and Frosty Drop from 2020 (UPDATED)

Ratings Analysis: The major broadcast networks once more used Black Friday to showcase the various Christmas and holiday specials that they have the rights to air. 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' (0.58) led the way as it often does, with the NBC broadcast of it eclipsing Fox's 'WWE Smackdown' (0.57, +0.05) by just a single hundredth. When compared to 2020, 'Grinch' was down a little more than a tenth (0.7). Newcomers '5 More Sleeps 'Til Christmas' (0.40) and 'Trolls Holiday in Harmony' (0.35) were unable to stir up much fanfare. 'An SNL Christmas' (0.40) posted a rather solid result by 10pm standards. On CBS, 'Frosty the Snowman' (0.49) and 'Frosty Returns' (0.39) were also about a tenth shy of what they managed one year prior (0.6/0.5). Reruns of 'Magnum PI' (0.29) and 'Blue Bloods' (0.30) filled out the latter-half of the night. ABC's showing of 'Santa Claus is Comin' to Town' (0.42) took a bigger hit than the others, falling by two-tenths from its November 2020 telecast (0.6). At 9, an episode of '20/20' (0.36, -0.66) centered on the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial was a far cry from the week-ago 'Turpin family' installment (1.02). The CW's 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer' (0.09) was at less than half of what it posted in 2020 (0.2). Nonetheless, the special matched its 'Masters of Illusion' lead-in (0.09).

Finals Update: 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' (+0.1), 'Frosty the Snowman' (+0.1), 'Santa Claus is Comin' to Town!' (+0.1), '5 More Sleeps 'Til Christmas' (+0.1), 'WWE SmackDown' (+0.1), '20/20' (+0.1), and 'Trolls Holiday in Harmony' (+0.1) adjusted up.

Saturday TV Ratings 12/14/19: Trolls Holiday Drops From How to Train Your Dragon with a 0.1, Rudolph and Frosty Lead the Night (UPDATED)

Finals Update: Trolls Holiday (-0.2) and Dateline NBC (-0.1) adjusted down.

Time	Show	18-49 Rating	Viewers (mil)	Channel
8 PM	Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (R)	0.6	3.07	CBS
	The Masked Singer (R)	0.3	1.49	Fox
	The Little Mermaid Live! (R)	0.3	1.40	ABC
	How to Train Your Dragon Homecoming (R)	0.2	1.29	NBC
8:30 PM	Trolls Holiday	0.1	0.89	NBC
9 PM	Frosty the Snowman (R)	0.6	3.04	CBS
	Dateline NBC (R)	0.4	2.07	NBC
	The Masked Singer (R)	0.3	1.80	Fox
9:30 PM	Frosty Returns (R)	0.4	2.24	CBS
10 PM	SNL Vintage	0.4	2.10	NBC
	48 Hours	0.3	2.417	CBS
	20/20 (R)	0.3	1.68	ABC

11:30

Saturday Night Live

1.2

5.97

NBC

Friday TV Ratings, 11/24/17: ’Trolls Holiday’ Tops the Night, ’Grinch’ Rises From Last Year (UPDATED)

Here are the final ratings for Friday, November 24, 2017.

 

Finals Update: Trolls Holiday (+0.1) adjusted up.

(R) = repeat

NBC's 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' (1.3) actually rose from last year's 1.2 at 8. The animated special may have had some help from 'Trolls Holiday' (1.4) which was the top program of the night and easily beat out its competition. NBC rounded out a great Friday night was an encore of Dateline (0.9).

Over on ABC, 'Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (0.8) nearly doubled an average 'Once Upon a Time'. At 9, '20/20' (0.6) inched down from last week.

CBS had a double dose of 'Frosty' specials (0.8/0.6) and a low-rated 'Grammy' special (0.5).

FOX stayed out of the holiday special business in favor of 'College Football' (0.9). It was well above an average 'Exorcist' but did about the same as 'Hell's Kitchen'. 

The CW had an 'iHeartRadio Music Festival' (0.2) but forgot to send out the invitations.