The Hills' Silent Night

Mon., Dec. 29, 2008 10:35 AM PST by

Lauren Conrad, Audrina Patridge, Whitney Port, Heidi Montag, The Hills MTV/Jeff Lipsky

Holiday TV Weirdness: MTV aired The Hills' season four finale on the little-watched eve before Christmas Eve. The show averaged 2.6 million viewers, per the Hollywood Reporter, down 32 percent from the season three finale and down 28 percent from August's season premiere.

More Holiday TV Weirdness: MTV is premiering its two new Hills-related shows, The City and Brody Jenner's Bromance, tonight—the little-watched eve before New Year's Eve. 

And Maybe the Most Holiday TV Weirdness: On a wintry Saturday night, NBC aired a two-hour recap of the Summer Olympics' opening ceremonies—and got about 2.8 milion people to watch, per stats reported by Mediaweek.

Finally, Something That Makes Sense: Last night's ratings were dominated by football, from late-afternoon games that spilled into prime time for Fox and CBS, to NBC's Sunday NIght Football (12.4 million viewers, Nielsen estimates showed). 

Auf Wiedersehen: ABC's Sunday offering of The Sound of Music (6.3 million) tanked, dropping the network to fourth on the night among viewers 18-49.

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