The biggest Dancing With the Stars season in years ended, fittingly, with the show’s most watched finale in nearly a decade. CBS’ reunion special for Everybody Loves Raymond also scored well.

Tuesday’s season 34 finale of Dancing With the Stars delivered 9.24 million viewers, based on preliminary Nielsen ratings (which don’t include the company’s big data component). That’s a season high — easily topping the 7.22 million viewers for the previous week — and the largest same-day audience for a DWTS finale since November 2016, when 10.97 million people watched the final episode.

The biggest Dancing With the Stars season in years ended, fittingly, with the show’s most watched finale in nearly a decade. CBS’ reunion special for Everybody Loves Raymond also scored well.

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