| NBC | ABC | CBS | FOX | CW | |
| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 1.4/4 | 1.1/3 | 1.0/3 | 0.8/3 | 0.2/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 5.444 | 5.330 | 4.556 | 2.345 | 1.056 |
NBC was number one in adults 18-49 and in total viewers.
On NBC, a rerun of Dateline scored a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating up a whopping 113% from last week's 0.8.
On ABC, Back to the Beginning With Christiane Amanpour earned a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating down 9% from last week's 1.1.
FOX aired Christmas specials after Christmas. Dreamworks Dragons Gift of the Night Fury garnered a 0.9 adults 18-49 rating down 40% from a 1.5 on December 17. Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas scored a 0.9 down 40% from a 1.5 on December 17.
Overnight broadcast primetime ratings for Friday, December 28, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Sh | Viewers (Millions) |
| 8:00 | ABC | Shark Tank - R | 1.4/4 | 5.41 |
| CBS | Undercover Boss - R | 1.1/4 | 5.47 | |
| FOX | Dreamworks Dragons Gift of the Night Fury - R | 0.9/3 | 2.89 | |
| NBC | Go On - R | 0.8/3 | 2.95 | |
| CW | Nikita - R | 0.2/1 | 1.00 | |
| 8:30 | NBC | Go On - R | 0.9/3 | 2.68 |
| FOX | Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas - R | 0.7/2 | 2.40 | |
| 9:00 | NBC | Dateline (9-11PM) - R | 1.7/5 | 6.83 |
| ABC | Back to the Beginning With Christina Amanpour (9-11PM) | 1.0/3 | 5.29 | |
| CBS | Undercover Boss - R | 1.0/3 | 4.41 | |
| FOX | Kitchen Nightmares - R | 0.7/2 | 1.91 | |
| CW | Arrow - R | 0.2/1 | 1.11 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | Undercover Boss - R | 0.9/3 | 3.79 |
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via press note:
In late-night metered-market households Friday night:
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@David Howell
Not really, since non-competition realitites almost always repeat exceptionally well.
Since a poster is talking about sitcoms, I just wanted to ask a question:
Would it be a good idea for the NBC execs to air 4 animated sitcoms in a block together, sometime in the future (BTW, I know it takes a long time for Fox’s animated sitcoms to be animated)? I know that just because an animated block works on Fox doesn’t mean it would work on NBC.
@ Nick
Most NBC shows don’t have heart… like 30 Rock and The Office. Go On and New Normal haven’t been that successful yet in ratings. The biggest hits for NBC in the past 8 years has been 30 Rock and Office. Jack Donhagy and Michael Scott both are heartless/unrelatable characters that everyone dislikes on the show.
So Nikita and Arrow tied on repeats. Nikita broke 1M viewers too. Not too bad, considering…
Not that it matters, but: the Nikita repeat of this episode (3×01) got more overall viewers than the original airing. Heh. The CW is full of anomalies.
Why is American TV full of repeats near Christmas. In the UK all the TV channels come out with some great One off comedies dramas and Short Films along with Christmas specials of TV shows which normally run the start of a series (Season). But in the US its all repeats as most shows take Christmas breaks. While out Figures are way higher even though our population is a fifth the size of yours. So why is this, do Americans not watch as much TV during Christmas?
I don’t like 60 min, Dateline, and Christanne Amanpour so I didn’t watch it!
You just gotta love the fact that a Dateline repeat draws a better demo than a new Blue Bloods episode usually does in the same time slot.