{"id":139962,"date":"2025-11-14T19:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139962\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:43:17","slug":"3-6-million-viewers-on-nbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139962\/","title":{"rendered":"3.6 Million Viewers on NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/wicked-one-wonderful-night\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wicked-one-wonderful-night\" data-tag=\"wicked-one-wonderful-night\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked: One Wonderful Night<\/a>\u201d scored 3.6 million viewers on NBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe thrillifying telecast is the network\u2019s second-highest rated special this year, after \u201cSNL50: The Anniversary Special.\u201d The viewership is also up 64% from the 2024 special \u201cDefying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked.\u201d (In particular, viewership among the 18-49 demographic spiked 148%.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWicked: One Wonderful Night\u201d was filmed live at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and aired Nov. 6 on NBC. It feared \u201cWicked\u201d stars including Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Yoeh, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater and Bowen Yang singing songs from both \u201cWicked\u201d and the upcoming sequel \u201cWicked: For Good.\u201d The setlist included \u201cThe Wizard and I,\u201d \u201cPopular,\u201d \u201cDancing Through Life,\u201d \u201cFor Good\u201d and, of course, \u201cDefying Gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIdina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, who originated the roles of Elphaba and Glinda on Broadway, also appeared. And the special featured guests including Leslie Odom Jr., Ludacris and Shaquille O\u2019Neal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe special came weeks before the Nov. 21 theatrical release of \u201cWicked: For Good,\u201d which will wrap up the story of the Oz-set prequel. The film sees witches Elphaba and Glinda estranged after visiting Emerald City. Per the logline, \u201cWhen a girl from Kansas comes crashing into their lives, they will need to come together one final time, and truly see each other, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe first \u201cWicked\u201d movie will air on NBC on Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. in anticipation of the sequel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWicked: One Wonderful Night\u201d was produced by Fulwell Entertainment. Ben Winston and Raj Kapoor executive produced.\u00a0\u201cWicked: For Good\u201d is produced by Marc Platt and David Stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWicked: One Wonderful Night\u201d scored 3.6 million viewers on NBC. The thrillifying telecast is the network\u2019s second-highest rated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282,80652],"class_list":{"0":"post-139962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv","12":"tag-wicked-one-wonderful-night"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}