Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Syndies: a couple of new season highs

Not much ratings movement among syndicated game shows for the week ending January 22. But TVNewsCheck does say that a couple shows hit new season highs. The good news for Alex and Meredith...

Wheel of Fortune 7.7 - down a tick but still leads all syndies in household ratings
Jeopardy 6.4 - up a tick to that season high
Family Feud 3.2 - flat but at a nice level
Millionaire 2.7 - also up a tick to a season high

All four shows made the top 25 syndie list at TV by the Numbers. The viewership averages: Wheel of Fortune 12.5 million (weekend repeat 5.9 million), Jeopardy 10.2 million, Family Feud 4.8 million, Millionaire 3.9 million. Everybody can be happy about these audiences.

In other Nielsen news, the game show pair on Monday night at NBC went out with subdued ratings. Who's Still Standing, in its last hurrah, pulled a 1.7 18-49 rating with 6.5 million total viewers. The corresponding numbers for the Fear Factor repeat were 1.5 and 4.0 million. Fear Factor got a rerun because NBC chickened out on a literally ass-inine stunt. But the show will reappear now and then.

UPDATE: Dancing With the Stars is really bombing on GSN. The best it did was 264K for one of the Friday night runs. The bad numbers dragged GSN's overall prime time/total day viewership averages down to 287K/217K for the week of January 23-29. Look for Dancing to get cut back soon. Gotta admit I'm surprised. I thought it was a great demo fit for GSN.

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