The overnight ratings are in for Friday’s WWE SmackDown episode from Orlando, Florida at the WWE Performance Center.
The episode drew an average of 1.971 million viewers, which is up from last Friday’s SmackDown episode that did an average of 1.893 million viewers.
This was the post-show of SmackDown for Sunday’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view event. This episode featured the Bar Fight between Jeff Hardy and Sheamus, which was pulled from Extreme Rules as a way to help boost SmackDown’s viewership.
The first hour saw it pull in 1.985 million viewers while hour two did 1.956 million viewers. Last week’s show did 1.919 million viewers in hour one while hour two did 1.867 million viewers.
It also pulled in an average of 0.50 rating in the 18-49 demographic, which was #1 for the night. That is up from the 0.45 rating in the 18-49 demographic the show did last week.
SmackDown was #8 for the night among the networks in viewership, the same from last week’s #8 ranking. It was behind 20/20, Magnum P.I., Blue Bloods, Shark Tank, Dateline NBC, and other series among the top shows on network television.
It should be noted that this is the overnight number and the actual rating won’t be released until Monday.
