TV Ratings: ‘SNL’ Hits Two-Year High With Druski as Host

The Nov. 7 episode of Saturday Night Live scored its biggest same-day audience in two years with the hosting debut of comedian and online creator Druski. Having a big college football lead-in probably helped too.

SNL drew about 5.6 million viewers for the episode, which also featured musical guest the Strokes. It added about 440,000 viewers from the previous season high of 5.16 million a week earlier. The 5.6 million viewers is the best showing for SNL in almost exactly two years: The Nov. 2, 2024, edition delivered about 6.8 million viewers.

The show also scored a two-year high in adults 18-49, with about 1.5 million viewers in that age range tuning in, and its best 18-34 rating in more than five years. NBC also says Saturday’s show was the most watched episode ever on Peacock, though it did not provide any numbers.

NBC also got big ratings in primetime Saturday with its telecast of Notre Dame’s 31-24 win over then No. 1 Miami in college football. The game averaged 9.1 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, making it the third most-watched primetime Notre Dame game since NBC and the university struck a broadcast deal in 1991. It was also easily the biggest game of NBC Sports’ primetime college football showcase (Big Ten or Notre Dame) so far this season.

The game led all college football telecasts for the weekend. The NBC-only portion of the game came in with about 8.6 million viewers, subject to adjustments as it started and finished outside the primetime window.

A couple other ratings notes from recent days:

• 60 Minutes averaged 7.77 million viewers for Sunday’s edition, which featured a post-midterms interview with President Donald Trump. While it was the most watched primetime show of the week outside of live sports, it was also at the lower end of Trump’s appearances on the show since he declared his first run for president in 2015. He has been on 60 Minutes eight times since then, and Sunday’s show drew the second smallest audience of the eight behind an April 2026 interview.

• Along with a strong election night, last week’s evening network newscasts also drew larger than usual audiences. All three posted their best viewer numbers since February, with ABC’s World News Tonight at 9.14 million viewers, the NBC Nightly News at 7.27 million and the CBS Evening News at 4.33 million (not including retitled telecasts used to game the Nielsen system).