Thanksgiving was uneventful for “The Gifted.” Worse, the show hit a series low in both viewership and demographic ratings. While this wasn’t a relatively huge drop, a 10% decrease in demographic is rather surprising for a show that has maintained a pretty steady average over the weeks. Then again, that average has continued to precipitate each week, so this was just one in a number of drops no matter how incremental.

What was the cause for this? Football, of course. In fact, football dominated all ratings over the holiday week with people home from work. Otherwise, it wasn’t from the other shows. There was some minor schedule shuffling but nothing dramatically competitive in The Gifted’s time slot. One would think that a holiday week would give a show like that a boost with people getting time off work. The fact it didn’t might say something about the show’s fan base.

What does this mean for the show’s future? As usual, it’s a huge question mark. While sites like TvByTheNumbers and TvLine say it is likely to be renewed, it barely makes a stir in the news, it has a fairly contained fan impact and reviews continue to range from good to average without any particularly glowing remarks. Comicbook.com among other sites feel this may be cause for concern if the show can’t show some sign of growth leading to its finale.