FOX surprised no one by cancelling Monarch the day before its finale aired. The freshman country music drama series never found an audience on the network. Hopes that Welcome to Flatch would hold the audience it found after some fortuitous scheduling were dashed last week. The mockumentary lost half of its ratings gains and seven hundred thousand viewers. The Resident was also down, shedding five hundred thousand viewers. Back-to-back episodes of the animated series Housebroken replaced The Great North and Bob's Burgers last week. The series showed why it normally runs in the summer as it lost four hundred thousand viewers for the network.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| WWE Smackdown | 0.52 | 2.1 | |
| The Simpsons | 0.37 | 1.2 | |
| The Resident | 0.36 | 2.8 | |
| Hell's Kitchen | 0.35 | 1.8 | |
| Family Guy | 0.35 | 1.0 | |
| Bob's Burgers (rerun) | 0.32 | 1.0 | |
| College Football | 0.31 | 1.1 | |
| The Masked Singer Seasonal Sing-Along | 0.29 | 2.0 | |
| The Simpsons (rerun) | 0.27 | 0.9 | |
| LEGO Masters | 0.26 | 1.2 | |
| Housebroken | 0.26 | 0.9 | |
| TMZ's Merry Elfin' Christmas | 0.24 | 1.2 | |
| The Cleaning Lady | 0.23 | 1.5 | |
| Call Me Kat | 0.21 | 1.0 | |
| Housebroken | 0.21 | 0.7 | |
| Welcome To Flatch | 0.20 | 0.8 | |
| Monarch (finale) | 0.17 | 1.6 | Cancelled |
ABC saw The Rookie return after a month off with back-to-back episodes pulling in seven hundred thousand more viewers over its last new episode at the beginning of November. Fans of the show don't forget, it will move to Tuesday nights when it returns after the holidays. Big Sky was down two hundred thousand viewers. The Conners lost four hundred thousand viewers. Abbott Elementary and The Good Doctor were even.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (Tuesday) | 0.58 | 3.8 | |
| The Conners | 0.52 | 3.8 | |
| Abbott Elementary | 0.48 | 2.6 | |
| The Rookie | 0.44 | 3.7 | |
| Santa Claus Is Coming To Town | 0.44 | 3.0 | |
| Press Your Luck | 0.44 | 2.7 | |
| The Great Christmas Light Fight | 0.44 | 2.6 | |
| America's Funniest Home Videos | 0.43 | 4.2 | |
| Shark Tank | 0.43 | 3.4 | |
| The Rookie | 0.41 | 3.6 | |
| The Goldbergs | 0.39 | 2.5 | |
| Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (Sunday) | 0.38 | 3.5 | |
| The Good Doctor | 0.36 | 3.2 | |
| Home Economics | 0.33 | 1.9 | |
| 20/20 (Friday) | 0.30 | 2.5 | |
| NBA Countdown | 0.30 | 1.7 | |
| The $100,000 Pyramid | 0.27 | 2.2 | |
| CMS Country Christmas | 0.26 | 3.0 | |
| Big Sky | 0.24 | 2.2 | |
| Superstar | 0.19 | 2.6 | |
| NBA Basketball | 0.15 | 2.3 |
CBS saw the return of So Help Me Todd, CSI: Vegas, Young Sheldon and Ghosts after a month off. CSI: Vegas and Young Sheldon were each down one hundred thousand viewers, while Ghosts dropped three hundred thousand. So Help Me Todd was up one hundred thousand viewers. NCIS and NCIS: Hawai'i returned after a week off, down four hundred thousand viewers each. Fire Country and Blue Bloods were each up last week by a couple hundred thousand viewers. SWAT lost one hundred thousand viewers.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| NFL Overrun | 5.45 | 23.4 | |
| 60 Minutes | 1.40 | 10.5 | |
| Survivor | 0.71 | 5.3 | |
| Ghosts | 0.56 | 6.3 | |
| Young Sheldon | 0.55 | 7.0 | Renewed |
| The Neighborhood | 0.52 | 5.2 | |
| The Amazing Race (finale) | 0.48 | 3.7 | |
| NCIS | 0.47 | 6.4 | |
| Blue Bloods | 0.44 | 5.8 | |
| Fire Country | 0.44 | 5.4 | |
| Bob (Hearts) Abishola | 0.43 | 4.9 | |
| SWAT | 0.42 | 4.8 | |
| Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (rerun) | 0.41 | 2.5 | |
| Frosty the Snowman (rerun) | 0.41 | 2.4 | |
| Fit For Christmas | 0.40 | 3.7 | |
| So Help Me Todd | 0.36 | 4.5 | |
| NCIS: Hawai'i | 0.34 | 4.5 | |
| FBI (rerun) | 0.33 | 4.2 | Renewed |
| CSI: Vegas | 0.29 | 3.3 | |
| FBI: International (rerun) | 0.22 | 3.4 | Renewed |
| East New York (rerun) | 0.22 | 2.1 | |
| 48 Hours (rerun) | 0.21 | 2.3 | |
| FBI: Most Wanted (rerun) | 0.20 | 3.1 | Renewed |
| East New York (rerun) | 0.14 | 1.4 |
NBC saw another harbinger of possible awards show slumping with the 2022 People's Choice Awards down slightly from last year. The Chicago and Law & Order shows returned after a few weeks off. Chicago Med and PD were both up a couple hundred thousand viewers, while Chicago Fire was down one hundred thousand. Parent show Law & Order and Law & Order Organised Crime were each down two hundred viewers. Law & Order: SVU up one hundred thousand. Lopez vs Lopez was even. Young Rock was down one hundred thousand viewers.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| NFL Football | 4.87 | 18.1 | |
| Football Night In America | 1.70 | 6.7 | |
| The Voice (Monday) | 0.66 | 6.3 | |
| Chicago Fire | 0.65 | 6.8 | Renewed |
| Chicago Med | 0.62 | 6.6 | Renewed |
| The Voice (Tuesday) | 0.61 | 6.5 | |
| Chicago PD | 0.59 | 5.6 | Renewed |
| Law & Order: SVU | 0.59 | 5.0 | |
| 2022 People's Choice Awards | 0.48 | 3.5 | |
| Law & Order: Organised Crime | 0.44 | 3.3 | |
| Law & Order | 0.40 | 4.4 | |
| That's My Jam: Holiday Edition | 0.35 | 2.4 | |
| Dateline (Friday) | 0.33 | 2.6 | |
| Dateline (Saturday) (rerun) | 0.32 | 2.7 | |
| Vintage SNL | 0.31 | 2.2 | |
| Lopez vs Lopez | 0.30 | 1.9 | |
| Young Rock | 0.24 | 1.3 | |
| Password (rerun) | 0.21 | 2.0 |
The CW wrapped DC's Stargirl last week. One of the few remaining superhero shows on the network went out on an up note, gaining one hundred thousand viewers over the previous week for its finale. The Winchesters returned after a week off, down one hundred thousand viewers.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| The Walton's Homecoming (rerun) | 0.06 | 0.5 | |
| The Winchesters | 0.06 | 0.4 | |
| Family Law | 0.06 | 0.3 | Import |
| DC's Stargirl (finale) | 0.05 | 0.5 | Cancelled |
| Professionals | 0.05 | 0.3 | Import |
| Penn & Teller: Fool Us (rerun) | 0.04 | 0.6 | |
| Greatest Holiday Commercials Countdown 2022 | 0.04 | 0.5 | |
| Whose Line Is It Anyway? | 0.04 | 0.5 | Cancelled |
| Whose Line Is It Anyway? (rerun) | 0.04 | 0.5 | |
| World's Funniest Animals | 0.04 | 0.4 | |
| World's Funniest Animals (rerun) | 0.04 | 0.4 | |
| Coroner | 0.04 | 0.3 | Import |
| Criss Angel's: Magic with the Stars (rerun) | 0.03 | 0.4 | |
| Silent Night: A Song for the World (rerun) | 0.03 | 0.3 |
Ratings Roundup will have one more week and then take off for the holidays. Several new shows will premiere in January and February. What are you looking forward to the most?
Written by LadyShelley on Dec 12, 2022
The future of The Winchesters, and Walker: Independence for that matter, is anyone's guess. NexStar said during an investor call that they are obligated to carry ten current CW shows through next season. So do you keep the longer running stuff to build episode count for future syndie deals and cut your losses on the new shows? Or do you keep the new shows that have some powerful name recognition in the hopes they might help you hold on to viewers as you transition to whatever the plan is for the network in 2024? Decisions, decisions.
You get back-to-back episodes of Ghosts this week and then it's off until January. :)
ME TOO! The Winchesters is just un watchable I mean with all those wonderful characters they could have used like Castiel, Bobby, Crowely I would have watched a spin off for those, much more interesting and NEW. We already know what happened to mom and dad repeatedly!
Oh Great, The Winchesters down one hundred thousand viewers. I'm just waiting for the CW to cancel the the series. I still have high hopes for the new series Gotham Knights. I'm glad to have Ghosts back, after a month off CBS.
We loved Law & Order: Criminal Intent. When they replaced the two lead actors, it just wasn’t the same and we stopped watching.
I'm looking forward to the final seasons of A Million Little Things (ABC) and The Flash (The CW). And I'm especially looking forward to the finale of New Amsterdam (NBC), my favorite current show on network TV.
Regarding the upcoming new shows, I can't say I'm looking forward to any one of them particularly. I will probably have a taste of Not Dead Yet (ABC), Will Trent (ABC), True Lies (CBS), Accused (Fox), Alert (Fox), Found (NBC), Night Court (NBC), and Gotham Knights (The CW) before I decide which ones to keep and which ones to discard. Gotham Knights is a CW superhero show in the Nextstar era; that means I can't be emotionally invested to it because its chances of survival for long are slim. To me, Fox's Accused sounds the most promising upcoming show. I hope it delivers.
that's great I love all of them except law and order...I liked Law & Order: Criminal Intent but that one got cancelled like Chicago: justice
Ghosts is one of the few successful cross-pond remakes. (We will not discuss the atrocity that was Coupling!)
NBC LOVES its franchises. Chances are high both will be easy renewals for the network. All three get decent enough ratings, and there are other shows that would go before any of the Law & Orders or Chicago shows.
Yeah, I really hope the writers for those shows had enough time to wrap up their plotlines. This was probably going to be the last season for The Flash, regardless, so they were likely the most prepared. Still mourning for how Legends of Tomorrow ended!
yep! it's awesome it has that English atmosphere that lacks in the American version
It has the same title Ghosts