Ratings: sweep up the syndies

TVNewsCheck tracked syndicated game shows for the entire sweeps period, October 25-November 21. They compared the ratings to last year's November sweeps. The big winner was Family Feud with better timeslots and media conglomerate Steve Harvey. Otherwise, the moves were relatively small...

Wheel of Fortune 7.1 - down three ticks from last year

Jeopardy 6.3 - up a tick

Family Feud 4.6 - up a whopping sixteen ticks

Millionaire 2.3 - down a couple ticks

Let's Ask America 1.8 - new kid on the syndie block is doing okay in its seven markets

Baggage 1.1 - other new kid on the block is barely visible

TV by the Numbers only offered the viewership averages for the top three shows during Thanksgiving week, November 19-25: Wheel of Fortune 10.0 million (weekend repeat 4.8 million), Jeopardy 8.5 million, Family Feud 6.1 million. All the shows were down from the week before, thanks to turkey dinners and other holiday festivities.

TVNewser's cable ranker revealed that GSN got 317K/248K prime time/total day viewership averages for the week of November 26-December 2. Nothing special but not terrible. Meanwhile, The Futon Critic tells us that truTV's gross-out singing game Killer Karaoke debuted with 1.21 million viewers November 23 but slipped to 837K on November 30.