{"id":2211196,"date":"2025-12-24T18:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2211196"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:06:32","slug":"snl-hits-season-high-with-holiday-episode-featuring-ariana-grande-cher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/snl-hits-season-high-with-holiday-episode-featuring-ariana-grande-cher\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SNL\u2019 Hits Season High With Holiday Episode Featuring Ariana Grande & Cher"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturday Night Live<\/a> hit a season high as it rang in the holidays.<\/p>\n

NBC<\/a> has revealed that the Ariana Grande<\/a>-hosted episode, which featured Cher<\/a> as musical guest, averaged 5.4M viewers, making it the most-watched episode of the show\u2019s Season 51.<\/p>\n

The previous high was the 4.6M that tuned in for the October 4 season premiere, which was hosted by Bad Bunny<\/a>. The numbers were live-plus-same-day Nielsen<\/a> data.<\/p>\n

The episode was also the most-watched episode since November 2, 2024, which was hosted by John Mulaney<\/a>, and the highest Christmas episode in five years.<\/p>\n

In terms of digital reach, it was the second ranked episode on Peacock, behind the season premiere, and drew 503M social views across YouTube<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, X, Instagram<\/a> and TikTok<\/a>, which the network says is \u201coutpacing\u201d last season\u2019s Ariana Grande-hosted episode, which was the most viewed social episode of Season 50.<\/p>\n

It was a packed episode. It was Bowen Yang<\/a>\u2019s…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday Night Live hit a season high as it rang in the holidays. NBC has revealed that the Ariana Grande-hosted episode, which featured Cher as musical guest, averaged 5.4M viewers, making it the most-watched episode of the show\u2019s Season 51. The previous high was the 4.6M that tuned in for the October 4 season premiere, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2211197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2211196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u2018SNL-Hits-Season-High-With-Holiday-Episode-Featuring-Ariana-Grande.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211198,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211196\/revisions\/2211198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}