Ratings: Extended Family Gets XL Sampling With NFL Lead-In — Grade NBC Sitcom's Premiere

NBC's sneak preview of the midseason sitcom Extended Family scored a veritable touchdown, with well-watched NFL football as its Saturday lead-in.

Debuting out of NBC's coverage of the Cincinnati Bengals/Pittsburgh Steelers game, the Jon Cryer-Donald Faison-Abigail Spencer sitcombo retained 4.7 million total viewers along with a 0.9 (!!) demo rating, which in today's climate may as well be "a bajillion point kabillion."

Grade the Extended Family preview below — it makes its regular time slot premiere next Tuesday, Jan. 2 at 8:30 pm ET — then read on for more Saturday aka Christmas Eve Eve ratings:

Leading out of the Extended Family look-see, Night Court's continuity-forsaking holiday episode drew 3.1 million total viewers — the revival's largest audience since the 12th episode of its freshman run — and a 0.6 rating (its best demo number since Episode 9).

Closing out NBC's NFL-boosted night, even an SNL Christmas special encore mustered 3.1 million total viewers and a 0.6 demo rating.

Elsewhere:

THE CW | Christmas With The Chosen: Holy Night had 550,000 followers.

ABC | The Las Vegas Bowl between Utah and Northwestern's college gridiron crews drew 2.5 million viewers.

FOX | The St. John's/UConn men's college hoops match-up drew 810,000 viewers.

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The Live+Same Day numbers reported in our ratings column do not reflect a show's overall performance, given the increased use of delayed playback via DVR and streaming platforms, plus out-of-home viewing. These numbers (Nielsen fast nationals, unless denoted as finals) instead aim to simply illustrate trends or superlatives. This is only an exhibition, this is not a competition. Please, no wagering.