Syndies smile

The week of April 23-29 was generally a good one for syndicated game shows. In fact, all of syndication perked up as May sweeps began. TVNewsCheck spreads the cheer...

Wheel of Fortune 6.7 - up a couple ticks
Jeopardy 5.7 - up a tick, not to be left behind by the soulmate
Family Feud 3.0 - up a tick, staying ahead of Meredith
Millionaire 2.6 - up a tick, to keep up with Steve

Nowadays, TV by the Numbers posts their top 25 syndie list almost as soon as Nielsen gets the numbers out. All four syndicated game shows made the list. The viewership averages: Wheel of Fortune 10.5 million (weekend repeat 5.0 million), Jeopardy 9.0 million, Family Feud 4.2 million, Millionaire 3.6 million. Certainly respectable numbers as the weather warms up (or cools down, depending on where you live).

As other numbers show up this week on the Internet for Total Blackout and GSN, I'll post 'em here. Well, TVNewser just posted their cable network ranker for April 30-May 5. GSN averaged 264K/227K viewers prime time/total day. Not so hot. The network ranked 44th in both categories among cable nets.

Meanwhile, Total Blackout drew a very nice 1.4 million viewers for its new episode on Wednesday, May 9. Syfy has a solid performer with the stunts-in-the-dark effort.