Ratings: The Good Wife Goes Out with a Bang

The Good Wifeheaded into its winter hiatus on the strength of its largest audience to date, helping CBS land yet another Tuesday night ratings win.
The freshman legal drama pulled in 14.1 million viewers, handily defeating The Jay Leno Show(5.2 million viewers) and a repeat of The Forgotten (3.3 million viewers), capping off a characteristically strong Tuesday showing for CBS. New holiday episodes of NCISand NCIS: Los Angeleswere watched by 20.5 million viewers and 17.4 million viewers, respectively.
Putting up the best fight was NBC's The Sing-Off, which averaged 7 million viewers over two hours and improved 13 percent among adults 18-to-49. Leading out of another airing of A Charlie Brown Christmas(6.6 million viewers), ABC's Scrubs(4.3 million viewers) and Better Off Ted(3.2 million viewers) continued to plunge, with the former down 13 percent and the latter hitting an all-time low in the demo.
On Fox, the So You Think You Can Danceperformance finale pulled in 6.3 million viewers, but only 4 million viewers tuned into Gordon Ramsay's live cooking show. Two repeats of The Vampire Diariesaveraged 1.4 million viewers for the CW.