Ratings: Wheel hits another season low

Except for Wheel of Fortune, syndicated game shows enjoyed a pretty decent week for June 18-24. But Pat and Vanna slipped to a new season low. They still led all syndies game shows by a comfortable margin, though. TVNewsCheck has the numbers...

Wheel of Fortune 5.9 - down a tick to that season low
Jeopardy 5.1 - flat
Family Feud 3.2 - up a tick
Millionaire 2.5 - up a couple ticks in the best move among the syndie gamers

All four shows made the top 25 list at TV by the Numbers. The viewership averages: Wheel of Fortune 9.0 million (weekend repeat 4.3 million), Jeopardy 7.8 million, Family Feud 4.7 million, Millionaire 3.5 million. These numbers look more than acceptable compared to the broadcast networks in the summer.

As other numbers dribble out this week for broadcast and cable game shows, I'll update this entry. TVNewser just posted their usual cable network ranker for the week of June 25-July 1. It was another good week for GSN, as the network rode Steve Harvey's coattails with viewership averages of 346K/264K prime time/total day. The network ranked 38th and 40th, respectively, in the windows.

And for that week, the top thirty shows on GSN were Harvey, Karn and O'Hurley Family Feud, according to Douglas Pucci. Unbelievable dominance by a single show. Douglas also says that Figure It Out averaged a healthy 2.4 million viewers for the week - most of them young'uns, of course - while Hip Hop Squares slumped to 167K viewers.