MTV/Jeff LipskyHoliday 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.