Ratings: good news for Steve and Meredith

Family Feud and Millionaire picked up a bit in the week of July 22-28, but Jeopardy fell back a little. Still, Alex's weekend repeat made the top 25 list at TV by the Numbers, in what I'll call a consolation prize. I've got all the household ratings from TVNewsCheck...

Wheel of Fortune 6.0 - flat
Jeopardy 5.6 - down three ticks, as it falls back from the soulmate
Family Feud 4.5 - up a couple ticks
Millionaire 2.5 - up a couple ticks as Meredith says the long good-bye
Baggage 1.0 - flat

As mentioned above, Alex made the list at TV by the Numbers twice, so game shows filled six of the 25 slots. The viewership averages: Wheel of Fortune 9.2 million (weekend repeat 4.8 million), Jeopardy 8.3 million (weekend repeat 3.5 million), Family Feud 6.9 million, Millionaire 3.4 million. Decent numbers all round for the genre.

GSN enjoyed a nice week for July 29-August 4, according to Media Insights. The network averaged 389K/278K viewers prime time/total day. Not bad at all, especially in prime time.