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As families begin their holiday festivities, ABC started its Wednesday night with a presentation of the classic 1970 stop-motion feature Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town narrated by Fred Astaire, which earned a 0.5 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 2.82 million viewers. It was followed by even more Yuletide cheer with…

We wish you a merry Great Christmas Light Fight — this year and next. ABC has handed a Season 8 renewal to its yule-duel series and set a premiere date for the 2019 edition; watch the promo above. Season 7 will light up with back-to-back hourlong episodes starting at 8 p.m. Monday, December 2. Two more installments…

The final performance episode of the season for NBC’s The Voice (1.6, 9.80M) ranked No. 1 Monday night among Big 4, growing 2/10ths of a rating in the demo to equal its best showing since mid-November. At 10 PM, NBC’s America’s Got Talent holiday special (1.2, 6.57M) dominated Big 3 derby in both metrics. NBC…

NBC's The Voice (1.5, 7.79M) ticked down a tenth in the demo and 4% in total viewers but even so finished the night as the No. 1 Big Four program in both metrics. Following the singing competition, a special one-off Deal or No Deal broadcast (1.0, 5.431M). in advance of its CNBC debut Wednesday, came in just shy of Man…

NBC’s two-hour The Voice (1.6 rating in the 18-49 demo, 9.30 million viewers) topped all other shows in Monday’s broadcast primetime in the demo and total viewers. The result, a rebound from the singing competition’s series-low numbers last week against that tough-to-beat Rams-Chiefs Monday Night Football matchup…

The holiday spirit is about to shine brighter when The Great Christmas Light Fight debut its sixth season on November 26 at 8 PM ET. Ahead of the premiere date, ABC has also announced that it has picked up the hit holiday series for Season 7 which will air in 2019. Lifestyle expert Carter Oosterhouse and interior…

Spice Adams, meet Baby Spice. Emma Bunton, the British TV personality and former Spice Girl, is joining Anthony “Spice” Adams as host of The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition, which will premiere at 9 PM Thursday, December 6 on ABC. The show challenges contestants to put their best recipes forward as they…

No surprise that a debut right after The Voice (2.0/7) would be a good launch pad, but even NBC might be taken aback with how well Ellen's Game of Games (1.7/6) did in its preview premiere Monday night. Delivering the Comcast-owned network its best non-sports results in the 10 PM slot since the SNL Election Special of…

It was a sweet pre-Christmas victory for the Detroit Lions over the New Orleans Saints on Monday Night Football last night, but ESPN was the real loser. With a 7.4 rating in metered market results, last night's 35-27 Lions win from 8:15-11:45 PM matched MNF's season low of November 30, when the Baltimore Ravens beat…

It was a night of beginnings, partial endings and near ends on primetime Monday. The near end was on The Voice (2.5/7) as it whittled things down to the final contestants racing towards the season finale. Last night's performance show saw the hopefuls belting out two tunes each. With FX's Sons Of Anarchy wrapping up…

Just over a week before those presents under the tree are opened, Tuesday's primetime was full of holiday specials and more year-enders but not a lot of cheer for some. Almost Human (1.6/5) wrapped up the first part of its first season as the only original on a holiday animation heavy Fox. The freshman futuristic cop…

UPDATE, 2:14 PM: Looks like it was that NFL game out of the Windy City pumping up the energy on The Great Christmas Light Fight last night. With final numbers in, the new short-term ABC holiday series shorted out from the 1.8/4 of fast nationals to a 1.4/4. That fall makes Light Fight the network's lowest-rated Monday…