The Anniversary Special drew 14.8 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, based on Nielsen figures and internal numbers from NBCUniversal. The show is NBC's biggest primetime entertainment telecast in five years,

That number is 202% above the average number of viewers who have tuned into each regular episode of “SNL” throughout its 50th season, which is 4.9 million — itself a 13% improvement on last season’s same-day viewership. And among the key adults 18-49 demographic, the special scored a 2.5 rating.

NBC hasn’t reported any specific viewership numbers as of this writing, but TVLine reports that it delivered “nearly twice” the average reach of a standard SNL season 50 episode over a three-day period.