Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With ‘Grinch’

NBC won the Tuesday ratings race, with How the Grinch Stole Christmas leading to a 0.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. ABC and Fox both got a 0.7/4, and CBS did a 0.6/3.

Special Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas got a 1.0, as did The Voice, which was down a tenth. Making It posted a 0.5, same as the night before.

ABC had the specials Brad Paisley Thinks He’s Special at 0.8 and the two-hour CMA Country Christmas at 0.7.

Fox had The Resident up 33% at 0.8 and Empire up 17% at 0.7.

On CBS, it was drama reruns.

The CW scored a 0.4/2, with The Flash up a tenth at 0.5 and Arrow at a level 0.3.

Univision posted a 0.4/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/2. Univision had Ringo at a flat 0.5 and La Rosa de Guadalupe and El Dragon at 0.4. La Rosa went up a tenth and Dragon was flat.

On Telemundo, it was El Sultan at 0.3, up a tenth from its premiere. El Final Del Paraiso was at 0.4 and El Senor de los Cielos at 0.4, both flat. 

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.