Ratings: DWTS Surges to 4-Year Highs With Season 33 Finale

ABC’s Dancing With the Stars posted its best numbers in four years, with its Season 33 finale.

Facing originals on NBC (including The Voice), Fox and The CW, Tuesday night’s DWTS finale avearged 6.4 million total viewers, the dance competition’s largest audience since the Season 29 finale on Nov. 23, 2020.

More from TVLine

• Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Hits New High, Most-Watched Entertainment Program Since 2020 Oscars

• When Will Your Favorite Shows Return From the Holidays? Save These Dates!

• Monday Ratings: NCISes Eye Season Lows, Superman & Lois Grows Ahead of Series Finale

And in the coveted-and-delicious 18-49 demo, DWTS scored a 1.14 rating, its best number since the Season 29 premiere on Sept. 14, 2020 — and marking the highest-rated regularly scheduled entertainment telecast in primetime since NBC’s This Is Us series finale (which posted a 1.28 rating on May 24, 2022).

Read Rebecca Iannucci’s in-depth recap of the season’s grand finale.

Dancing With the Stars: The 33 Mirrorball Trophy Winners, Ranked!

View List

The three-hour DWTS finale also swept additional key demographics including Adults 18-34 (with a 1.27 rating), Women 18-49 (1.61 rating), Women 18-34 (1.90 rating) and Men 18-34 (0.65 rating), among others.

Compared to its year-ago finale, DWTS was up 16% in viewers and up 70% in the demo. In fact, that 1.14 rating marked the best demo number for a finale in more than six years, since May 21, 2018.

DWTS‘ closest Tuesday night competitor, NBC’s The Voice, posted 3.8 million viewers along with a 0.35 demo rating.

Want SCOOP on any of the above? Email InsideLine@tvline.com and your question may be answered via Matt’s Inside Line!

The Live+Same Day numbers reported in TVLine’s daily-ish ratings column do NOT reflect a television program’s overall performance, given the increased use of delayed playback via DVR and streaming platforms, plus out-of-home viewing. These numbers instead aim to simply illustrate trends or superlatives. Steve Harvey is not a judge or lawyer and merely offers an alternative forum of dispute resolution

Sign up for TVLine's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.