Friday TV Show Ratings: Fringe, Dateline, Holiday Specials and Reruns

Friday, December 21, 2012 ratings — New episodes: Fringe and Dateline. Specials: Blake Shelton’s Not So Family Christmas (repeat), Michael Buble: Home For The Holidays (repeat), The Happy Elf (repeat), Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer (repeat), and Back To The Beginning With Christiane Amanpour. Episode reruns: Last Man Standing, Malibu Country, The Good Wife, and Kitchen Nightmares.

Below are the fast affiliate ratings. The “demo” refers to the viewers in the 18-49 demographic. The percentages represent the change since the previous original episode. (Percentages aren’t given for reruns or specials.) “Millions” refers to the total number of viewers.

To see past ratings for a particular show, click the show’s link. The show pages are updated with the daily final ratings when they become available. Those pages include percentage changes in both the demo and total viewership, in addition to season averages to date.

ABC
8pm – Last Man Standing: (repeat) 0.9 in the demo with 4.3 million.
8:30pm – Malibu Country: (repeat) 0.8 in the demo with 3.8 million.
9pm – Back to the Beginning With Christiane Amanpour: (special) 1.1 in the demo with 5.2 million.

CBS
8pm – The Good Wife: (repeat) 0.6 in the demo with 4.1 million.
9pm – The Good Wife: (repeat) 0.6 in the demo with 3.9 million.
10pm – The Good Wife: (repeat) 0.7 in the demo with 4.1 million.

The CW:
8pm – The Happy Elf: (special, repeat) 0.6 in the demo with 1.7 million.
9pm – Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer: (special, repeat) 0.6 in the demo with 1.9 million.

FOX
8pm – Kitchen Nightmares: (repeat) 0.9 in the demo with 2.4 million.
9pm – Fringe: 1.0 in the demo (-9% change) with 3.0 million.

NBC
8pm – Blake Shelton’s Not So Family Christmas: (special, repeat) 1.0 in the demo with 5.0 million.
9pm – Michael Buble: Home for the Holidays: (special, repeat) 0.8 in the demo with 4.4 million.
10pm – Dateline: 0.8 in the demo (-60% change) with 3.8 million.

What were you watching last night? A holiday special, one of the few original episodes or something even better?

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