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Donald Driver’s smiling, but ‘Dancing With the Stars’ finale stumbles

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‘Dancing With the Stars’ winner Donald Driver now has a great-looking Mirrorball Trophy to go along with his Super Bowl ring. But the news for ABC after Tuesday’s season finale wasn’t as nice.

The two-hour extravaganza that crowned Driver and his dance partner, Peta Murgatroyd, averaged 17.5 million total viewers, according to Nielsen. That’s the least-watched ‘DWTS’ finale ever and down 18% compared with the numbers a year ago. The most-watched finale was in November 2006, with 27.5 million tuning in.

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Even so, ABC still won the night among total viewers. But Fox, which scheduled its ‘American Idol’ performance finale at 8 p.m., was dominant among young adults, despite ‘Idol’ ratings that were themselves at record lows.

What did you think of the ‘DWTS’ finale? Why do you think its ratings hit lows?

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-- Scott Collins
twitter.com/scottcollinsLAT

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