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Ratings: It's a Wonderful Life Gets Biggest Audience in Years
More than 5.5 million people tuned in to the holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life on NBC Christmas Eve, marking it the biggest audience for Frank Capra's 1946 film in seven years.
More than 5.5 million people tuned in to the holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life on NBC Christmas Eve, marking it the biggest audience for Frank Capra's 1946 film in seven years.
Bolstered by those numbers, NBC won Monday evening, with It's a Wonderful Life drawing 5.6 million viewers, its largest audience since 2005, and a 1.5 rating in the adults 18-to-49 demographic. It also makes it the most-watched theatrical movie to play on a broadcast network so far this season, according to Entertainment Weekly.
All of the major networks aired holiday programming or reruns of their prime-time shows. ABC's Shrek the Halls special drew 3.4 million viewers and a 1.0 in the demo.
8 p.m.
CBS: How I Met Your Mother(R) 3.3 million (.9); How I Met Your Mother (R) 3.2 million (1.0)
ABC: Prep & Landing(R) 3.4 million (.9) / Shrek the Halls (R) 3.4 million (1.0)
Fox: Raising Hope (R) 1.9 million (.7) / Raising Hope (R) 1.4 million (.5)
NBC: It's a Wonderful Life (R) 5.6 million (1.5)
CW: Christmas Is Here Again 800,000 (.3)
9 p.m.
CBS: 2 Broke Girls(R) 4.3 million (1.2) / Mike & Molly(R) 4.5 million (1.2)
ABC: Shrek the Third 3.4 million (1.1)
Fox: Raising Hope (R) 1.5 million (.5); Raising Hope (R) 1.7 million (.6)
CW: Christmas Is Here Again 700,000 (.2) / Second Star to the Left600,000 (.2)
10 p.m.
CW: Hawaii Five-0(R) 4.8 million (1.2)