If you’re in the Los Angeles area and enjoy a good talk-show Christmas giveaway, may we suggest Ellen DeGeneres’ “12 Days of Giving”? Or at least, whatever you do, don’t bother with James Corden’s “Late Late Show” version.
On Tuesday, the CBS personality kicked off his first-annual Christmas giveaway — let’s just say it didn’t quite get the studio audience in the holiday spirit. Up first, a very enthusiastic winner had to settle for a coffee mug — it wasn’t quite the fully loaded BMW she scored on “Ellen.”
The next prize actually had some monetary value, but unfortunately it indirectly resulted in the death of a puppy. Merry Christmas, everyone.
Corden saved his top present for last. Even that one sucked, though — see why via the video above.
13 TV Shows With the Worst Audience Declines From Last Year (Photos)
We've already learned that just six entertainment (so, no sports or news programming) TV shows across the Big 4 broadcast channels were able to grow their audiences from Fall 2016 to this season -- but which ones are actually falling the hardest? TheWrap's got that answer for you today, and we've ranked them in order from bad-to-awful.
Unfortunately for Fox, the newest of the networks (again, we're leaving The CW alone here) owns each of the three worst year over year total-viewer drop-offs. All numbers in this story comes from Nielsen's "most current" metric, which includes a week's worth of delayed viewing where available.
Rank: 13 Show: "NCIS: Los Angeles" Net: CBS Total-Viewer Average: 10.216 million Year-Over-Year Decline: -20%
"NCIS: LA" moved from Sundays at 8 after "60 Minutes" to Sundays at 9 after the recently scraped "Wisdom of the Crowd." You do the math -- or rather, don't bother, as we just did for you.
Rank: 11 (tie) Show: "The Blacklist" Net: NBC Total-Viewer Average: 8.322 million Year-Over-Year Decline: -21%
"The Blacklist" moved from Thursdays at 10 to Wednesdays at 8. It's now up against Fox's "Empire" and in the dead spot previously occupied by "Blindspot."
Rank: 10 Show: "Madam Secretary" Net: CBS Total-Viewer Average: 8.564 million Year-Over-Year Decline: -22%
"Madam Secretary" was sent to Sundays at 10 this season -- though with NFL football overruns, it rarely even finishes within the confines of East Coast primetime.
Rank: 9 Show: "Scorpion" Net: CBS Total-Viewer Average: 7.599 million Year-Over-Year Decline: -25%
"Scorpion" is mostly getting beaten-up by ABC's freshman drama"The Good Doctor." Bring back the good-old days when this batch of geniuses battled "Conviction." Plus, no one wants "Me, Myself & I" as a lead-in -- or in CBS' case, really, at all.
Rank: 1 (tie) Show: "Lethal Weapon" Net: Fox Total-Viewer Average: 5.902 million Year-Over-Year Decline: -37%
As a freshman, "Lethal Weapon" benefitted in its final 15 minutes as viewers flocked to Fox early for "Empire." Now the action-drama is on its own for Season 2, and Murtaugh and Riggs are maybe already getting too old for this s---.
Fox actually claims all three of the biggest drops from Fall 2016
We've already learned that just six entertainment (so, no sports or news programming) TV shows across the Big 4 broadcast channels were able to grow their audiences from Fall 2016 to this season -- but which ones are actually falling the hardest? TheWrap's got that answer for you today, and we've ranked them in order from bad-to-awful.
Unfortunately for Fox, the newest of the networks (again, we're leaving The CW alone here) owns each of the three worst year over year total-viewer drop-offs. All numbers in this story comes from Nielsen's "most current" metric, which includes a week's worth of delayed viewing where available.
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