The fast national ranking for this week’s edition of Fastlane’s SmackDown saw the show’s average of 2,031 million viewers on Fox, up 4.4 percent from last Friday’s nighttime number.
The episode averaged 2.02 million viewers in the first hour and rose one percent to 2.04 million in the second hour.
Fox ended in last place among the major networks in total viewers, as the other stations broadcast all of the original programming. No other chain averaged 2.9 million overnight.
For the sixth time in the past seven weeks, SmackDown got a rating of 0.5 on the 18-49 demo. SmackDown came in second on the networks behind ABC’s Shark Tank in this category.
In 18-34, SmackDown obtained the same rating of 0.3 overnight as it did in 12 of the past 13 weeks. This tied Shark Tank in the first place in the networks.
Last week’s SmackDown faced competition from the opening round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. There were no tournament games last night.
Year after year, SmackDown fell 14.4 percent in the night view, fell 28.6 percent in the 18-49 demo and dropped 25 percent in 18-34.
Here is a look at the last 10 weeks of overnight viewing and the main demo demonstration numbers for SmackDown:
