The golden anniversary celebration for Saturday Night Live brought in ratings gold as well.
Sunday’s live SNL50: The Anniversary Special drew 14.8 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, based on Nielsen figures and internal numbers from NBCUniversal. The show is NBC’s biggest primetime entertainment telecast in five years, since 18.33 million people watched the 2020 Golden Globes.
The audience is also the second-largest for any non-sports primetime network show so far in the 2024-25 season, behind only the 15.4 million viewers for the Grammy Awards on CBS earlier in February. Sunday’s show more than tripled the same-day season average for regular episodes of SNL, which draw about 4.9 million viewers.
In the key ad-sales demographic of adults 18-49, SNL50
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