Last month, Disney hosted the season finale of the thirty-third season of the hit competition series, “Dancing With The Stars”, which saw Joey Graziadei and his partner, Jenna Johnson, win the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy, also broke voting records, garnering over 32 million votes for the teams. 

Hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough, the hit series pairs celebrities with trained ballroom dancers to compete in themed choreographed dance routines that are judged by a panel of renowned ballroom experts, including Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough.

Disney has revealed that after seven days of viewing (including linear playback) on ABC, Disney+, Hulu and digital platforms, the “Dancing with the Stars” season 33 finale shot to 7.95 million Total Viewers and a 1.55 rating in Adults 18-49, growing +25% in Total Viewers (7.95 million vs. 6.36 million) and +36% in Adults 18-49 (1.55 rating vs. 1.14 rating) over the show’s record-setting Live+Same Day audience.

The finale represented the show’s highest delivery in multiplatform viewing for any “Dancing with the Stars” telecast in both Total Viewers and Adults 18-49 in three years – since the show’s season 30 premiere on 9/20/21.

Looking at all finales, the show’s season-ender marked “Dancing with the Stars”’s highest finale episode performance in multiplatform viewing among Total Viewers in five years (since 11/ 25/19) and in Adults 18-49 in seven years (since 11/21/17).

On linear, the finale was ABC’s highest-rated primetime entertainment telecast in Adults 18-49(1.23 rating) this season and the best since the post-Oscars “Abbott Elementary” special on 3/10/24.

“Dancing with the Stars” was the most social TV program across broadcast and cable on 11/26/24 and the most social episode of any entertainment series season to date.

You can watch the entire 33rd season of “Dancing With The Stars” on Disney+ and Hulu now in the United States and on Disney+ in Canada.

Roger’s Take: Returning “Dancing With The Stars” to ABC seems to have done the trick for this show, and this latest season seems to have performed very well. The show reaching both traditional linear television viewers through ABC and having a streaming alternative broadcast on Disney+ highlights the power of combining them to reach a larger audience.

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Roger Palmer

Roger has been a Disney fan since he was a kid and this interest has grown over the years. He has visited Disney Parks around the globe and has a vast collection of Disney movies and collectibles. He is the owner of What's On Disney Plus & DisKingdom. Email: Roger@WhatsOnDisneyPlus.com Twitter: Twitter.com/RogPalmerUK Facebook: Facebook.com/rogpalmeruk

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