ABC ran a special Monday Night Football in conjunction with ESPN last week, which topped the network's rating chart. The Great Christmas Light Fight returned for an eighth season, opening even with last year's run. Grey's Anatomy and Station 19 were both even with the previous week's numbers. Big Sky earned itself an additional six episodes and celebrated by dropping a ratings tenth. A Million Little Things was also down a tenth, but For Life managed to gain a tenth last week.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Monday Night Football | 1.5 | 6.4 | |
| Grey's Anatomy | 1.2 | 5.7 | |
| The Bachelorette | 1.2 | 4.3 | |
| Station 19 | 0.8 | 5.6 | |
| The Great Christmas Light Fight (premiere) | 0.7 | 4.0 | |
| America's Funniest Home Videos | 0.6 | 5.0 | |
| Big Sky | 0.6 | 3.5 | |
| Supermarket Sweep | 0.6 | 2.9 | |
| Shark Tank | 0.5 | 3.8 | |
| Monday Night Football: Kickoff | 0.5 | 3.7 | |
| A Million Little Things | 0.5 | 3.6 | |
| Who Wants to be a Millionaire | 0.5 | 3.0 | |
| College Football | 0.5 | 2.0 | |
| 20/20 | 0.4 | 2.4 | |
| For Life | 0.4 | 2.1 | |
| Card Sharks | 0.3 | 1.9 |
CBS enjoyed a Sunday night NFL overrun, which may have helped The Eye cope with the ratings losses on Tuesday. NCIS fans shouldn't worry too much about that two tenth drop, a make-up NFL game over on FOX was the reason. MacGyver, Magnum PI and Blue Bloods all held their premiere numbers. SEAL Team gained a tenth from its premiere. SWAT was up a tenth from its last new episode a couple of weeks ago.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| NFL overrun | 5.0 | 19.2 | |
| 60 Minutes | 1.7 | 11.5 | |
| NCIS | 0.7 | 8.5 | |
| Holly Dolly Christmas | 0.7 | 6.4 | |
| The Neighborhood | 0.7 | 5.3 | |
| The Amazing Race | 0.7 | 4.1 | |
| FBI | 0.6 | 6.7 | |
| Bob (Hearts) Abishola | 0.6 | 5.3 | |
| SEAL Team | 0.6 | 4.5 | |
| Blue Bloods | 0.5 | 6.1 | |
| Magnum PI | 0.5 | 5.6 | |
| FBI: Most Wanted | 0.5 | 4.9 | |
| MacGyver | 0.5 | 4.6 | |
| NCIS: Los Angeles | 0.5 | 4.5 | |
| All Rise | 0.5 | 4.2 | |
| SWAT | 0.5 | 3.9 | |
| Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer | 0.5 | 2.8 | |
| Frosty The Snowman | 0.5 | 2.7 | |
| Young Sheldon (rerun) | 0.4 | 4.2 | |
| NCIS: Los Angeles | 0.4 | 3.9 | |
| 48 Hours | 0.4 | 2.6 | |
| Frosty Returns | 0.4 | 2.1 | |
| Bull (rerun) | 0.3 | 3.6 | |
| B Positive (rerun) | 0.3 | 2.9 | |
| Mom (rerun) | 0.3 | 2.8 | |
| Mom (rerun) | 0.3 | 2.6 | |
| Star Trek: Discovery | 0.2 | 1.6 | Import |
NBC had no new scripted shows last week. The Grinch Musical was not well received, losing almost a million viewers in its second hour. The Peacock announced it would air the second season of Transplant. As the program is produced in Canada by CTV, no word on when the episodes will air in the US. Nurses, another Canadian import, premiered to middling numbers.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Sunday Night Football | 4.6 | 17.1 | |
| Football Night in America | 3.2 | 11.1 | |
| The Voice (Monday) | 0.8 | 6.9 | |
| The Voice (Tuesday) | 0.7 | 6.6 | |
| The Grinch Musical | 0.6 | 2.6 | |
| One Night Only | 0.5 | 3.7 | |
| Dateline (Friday) | 0.5 | 3.1 | |
| Nurses (premiere) | 0.4 | 3.6 | Import |
| Transplant | 0.4 | 3.5 | Import |
| Transplant | 0.4 | 3.0 | Import |
| The Weakest Link (rerun) | 0.4 | 2.6 | |
| The Wall (rerun) | 0.4 | 2.3 | |
| TIME Magazine Person of the Year | 0.3 | 2.3 | |
| Vintage SNL | 0.3 | 2.2 | |
| Ellen's Game of Games (rerun) | 0.3 | 1.9 | |
| Nurses (rerun) | 0.3 | 1.6 | Import |
FOX ran a special NFL game on Tuesday after the NFL postponed the Sunday night game. Numbers were about even with the Thursday night game. The Masked Singer lost half a ratings point last week. A pair of I Can See Your Voice episodes were down a couple of tenths from its last, non-football inflated, numbers. The Simpsons and Bob's Burgers were even.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| NFL Tuesday Night Football | 3.9 | 13.5 | |
| NFL Thursday Night Football | 3.6 | 13.6 | |
| NFL Thursday Night Football Pregame | 2.2 | 9.0 | |
| NFL Tuesday Night Pregame | 1.9 | 7.0 | |
| The Masked Singer | 1.1 | 4.9 | |
| I Can See Your Voice | 0.8 | 3.4 | |
| I Can See Your Voice | 0.8 | 2.5 | |
| WWE Friday Night Smackdown | 0.6 | 2.1 | |
| The Simpsons | 0.6 | 1.6 | |
| Family Guy (rerun) | 0.6 | 1.4 | Renewed |
| Bob's Burgers | 0.5 | 1.2 | Renewed |
| Bless The Harts | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| Major League Soccer | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
| Cosmos (rerun) | 0.2 | 1.1 |
The CW's slate of holiday specials performed about as well as the reruns and imports on the rest of its schedule. The Christmas Caroler Challenge opened with half a million viewers. Pandora and The Outpost each managed a tenth of a ratings point last week. Network execs have got to be eager for January when they might, hopefully, see a rating other than 0.1 for a program.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Whose Line Is It, Anyway? (rerun) | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
| Whose Line Is It, Anyway? (rerun) | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
| Penn & Teller: Fool Us (rerun) | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
| Silent Night: A Song for the World | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
| Greatest Holiday Commercials | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
| Christmas Caroler Challenge (premiere) | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
| Swamp Thing | 0.1 | 0.4 | Import |
| Devils | 0.1 | 0.4 | Import |
| Pandora | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
| The Outpost | 0.1 | 0.3 | Renewed |
| Tell Me A Story | 0.1 | 0.3 | Import |
There's one more week of Ratings Roundup and then a break for the Christmas holidays. What new shows premiering in January are you waiting to watch?
Written by LadyShelley on Dec 14, 2020
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