CBS’ Ghosts scored the largest audience ever on the same day with a two-part holiday episode and ABC’s Beauty and the Beast special also posted decent ratings on Thursday.
A two-piece Ghoststitled “The Christmas Spirit”, averaged 7 million viewers for CBS, beating its previous peak of 6.78 million at the end of October. The comedy was Thursday’s most-watched prime-time broadcast by a healthy margin, drawing about 2.3 million more people than its lead-out, So help me Todd (4.7 million). Ghosts also had his second-best adults 18-49 rating of the season at 0.59.
CSI: Vegas closed the CBS night with 3.48 million viewers, slightly above the same-day season average.
ABCs Beauty and the Beast special, starring HER and Josh Groban in the title roles, commemorated the 30th anniversary of the 1991 film’s nomination for Best Picture, the first animated film to earn the honor. The two-hour musical drew 4.26 million viewers and led broadcast networks among adults aged 18-49 with a 0.79 rating. The debut of an unscripted show The parent test placed a shadow under 2 million viewers at 10 p.m. and a 0.4 in the 18-49 demographic
prime videos broadcast averaged 10.31 million viewers (including over-the-air broadcasts in San Francisco and Seattle), according to Nielsen, for best showing on November 17 (10.32 million). Amazon’s first-party measurement puts the game at 11.6 million viewers.
