Lady Gaga Special No Turkey for ABC
Based on the early Nielsen ratings Lady Gaga may not become a Thanksgiving mainstay like Charlie Brown, but A Very Gaga Thanksgiving still posted solid numbers on Thursday night for ABC with a total audience of 5.7 million viewers. The 90-minute special, where Gaga performed a handful of songs and showed off some curious wardrobe choices, was ABCs highest-rated show in that time period 9:30 p.m. to 11 in four years.
CBS finished first in prime time over all and a repeat of The Big Bang Theory was the No. 1 program of the night in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic and in total viewers, with 11.2 million. Earlier in the day the audience for NBCs broadcast of the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade was down according to Nielsens preliminary overnight estimates by about 3 percent compared to last year, when 22.1 million viewers tuned in. Final audience figures were not available on Friday.