Dancing with the Stars has had quite a season.

The ABC series, based on BBC format Strictly Come Dancing , scored its largest finale audience in nine years – since Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez and Valentin Chmerkovskiy won in 2016.

The finale, which saw Robert Irwin and Witney Carson take home the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy, recorded 9.24M total viewers and a 2.15 rating among adults 18-49. This was its highest finale number in the demo since 2015 (when Nyle DiMarco and Peta Murgatroyd were winners).

This was well up on last season, which had 6.37M viewers, while in the 18-49, it was up 89% with last season scoring a 1.14 rating. It was, in fact, the strongest demo number for the show since Robert Irwin’s sister Bindi and Derek Hough won in 2015.

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