Friday TV Ratings 5/26/23: Star Trek Into Darkness Low, Soul of a Nation Special Weak, Declining WWE SmackDown Easily Leads (UPDATED)

Ratings Analysis: Fox's 'WWE Smackdown' (0.52, -0.01) shed a hundredth but more than doubled all other competitors in the Adults 18-49 demographic on a particularly dull Friday evening. ABC's 'The New Face of Hollywood' special (0.20) (packaged under the "Soul of a Nation" branding) had a very dismal performance, so much so that the rerun of '20/20' (0.23) that followed outpaced it by a few ticks. But though the alphabet network struggled, it was CBS's broadcast of 'Star Trek Into Darkness' (0.15) that reached laughable levels. NBC was on slightly stronger footing than CBS with its reruns of 'That's My Jam' (0.23) and 'Dateline' (0.23). The CW's reruns of 'Penn & Teller: Fool Us' (0.07), 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' (0.06), and 'The Great American Joke Off' (0.05) performed about the same as first-run episodes do.

Finals Update: Repeats of 'That's My Jam' (-0.1) and 'Dateline NBC' (-0.1) adjusted down.

Time	Show	18-49 Rating	18-49 Share	Viewers (mil)	Network
8 PM	WWE SmackDown	0.52	6.9	2.16	Fox
	That's My Jam (R)	0.23	3.1	1.79	NBC
	The New Face of Hollywood	0.20	2.6	1.81	ABC
	Star Trek Into Darkness	0.15	2.0	2.08	CBS
	Penn & Teller: Fool Us (R)	0.07	1.0	0.50	The CW
9 PM	Dateline NBC (R)	0.23	2.8	2.23	NBC
	20/20 (R)	0.23	2.9	2.04	ABC
	Whose Line Is It Anyway? (R)	0.06	0.8	0.38	The CW
9:30 PM	The Great American Joke Off (R)	0.05	0.7	0.33	The CW