Let's go again to TVNewsCheck for the quickest numbers on syndicated game shows. The news was mostly good in the week ending May 15...Wheel of Fortune 6.6 - up three ticks
Jeopardy 5.6 - outdoes the soulmate by one whole tick, up four ticks
Family Feud 2.4 - Steve inches ahead of Meredith, up a couple ticks
Millionaire 2.3 - flat, and Meredith is supposedly a lock to stay at the show
5th Grader 1.1 - up a tick, if only the demos skewed younger, the show might have survived
Lyrics 0.8 - flat and nothing could have helped its survival prospects
Lately (no pun intended) TV by the Numbers has been taking a week to post the viewership averages. When they post 'em, I'll post 'em. Yippee, they put 'em up: Wheel of Fortune 10.5 million (weekend repeat 3.9 million) and Jeopardy 8.5 million.
Meanwhile, I've been listing the latest GSN ratings in the sidebar as Douglas puts them up at Son of the Bronx. Not much new. The top ten each day are the usual suspects: Sherri, Karn, O'Hurley. Sometimes Chuck, Jerry, Alfonso, and Carrie Ann turn up. Even Wendy gets into the top ten now and then, which gives me the heebie-jeebies. Of course, Drew's Improv-a-Ganza never makes the list. But his Power of 10 sneaks in on weekends sometimes.
Overall, GSN's prime time numbers have fallen off the table thanks to the tedious improvisers. So the network never makes the top 40 in prime time at TVNewser any more. But GSN's total day average of 231K did rank 40th in the week of May 9-15.
One other ratings note: Minute To Win It scored its best numbers in a while last night: 4.3 million viewers and a 1.5 18-49 rating. Of course, it wasn't facing American Idol. The show soon departs from NBC.
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