Saturday TV Ratings 4/2/22: Saturday Night Live Rises Slightly, Dateline Encore Leads Primetime, 48 Hours Slips (UPDATED)

Ratings Analysis: NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' (0.83, +0.03) was back in original mode with host Jerrod Carmichael and musical guest Gunna. The sketch-comedy series rose by three-hundredths from the series low it garnered on March 12th (0.80). Reruns of 'Dateline' (0.21/0.27) and 'SNL Vintage (0.23) made up the peacock network's primetime lineup. On CBS, a Whitney Houston special (0.15) made little noise and a 9PM repeat of 'The Equalizer' (0.14) dropped from there. '48 Hours' (0.23, -0.11) lost more than a tenth in the 10PM hour. ABC's encores of 'Shark Tank' (0.16) and 'American Idol' (0.19) bested the CBS reruns. Fox was below both of those networks with repeats of '9-1-1' (0.11) and 'The Cleaning Lady' (0.08). The CW's 'World's Funniest Animals' (0.03, -0.03) crumbled on finale night, dropping by 50% on a week-to-week basis. It was beat out by the 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' encores (0.04/0.07) that came before it and could only match the 9:30PM repeat of itself (0.03).

Finals Update: The repeat of 'Shark Tank' (+0.1) adjusted up.

Time	Show	18-49 Rating/Share	Viewers (mil)	Network
8 PM	Dateline NBC (R)	0.21/2	2.09	NBC
	Shark Tank (R)	0.16/2	1.27	ABC
	Whitney, A Look Back	0.15/1	1.65	CBS
	9-1-1 (R)	0.11/1	0.83	Fox
	Whose Line Is It Anyway? (R)	0.04/0	0.35	The CW
8:30 PM	Whose Line Is It Anyway? (R)	0.07/1	0.43	The CW
9 PM	Dateline NBC (R)	0.27/2	2.28	NBC
	American Idol (R)	0.19/2	1.35	ABC
	The Equalizer (R)	0.14/1	1.53	CBS
	The Cleaning Lady (R)	0.08/1	0.48	Fox
	World's Funniest Animals (F)	0.03/0	0.38	The CW
9:30 PM	World's Funniest Animals (R)	0.03/0	0.33	The CW
10 PM	48 Hours	0.23/2	2.34	CBS
	SNL Vintage	0.23/2	1.52	NBC

11:30 PM	Saturday Night Live	0.83/10	4.65	NBC