Friday TV Ratings 6/30/23: Dateline NBC Declines, WWE SmackDown Jumps (UPDATED)

Ratings Analysis: Fox's 'WWE Smackdown' (0.69, +0.08) pulled off an impressive bounce-back and tripled its nearest competitor in the Adults 18-49 demographic (a rerun of 'Dateline' on NBC that posted a 0.23). 'Dateline' once more had poor lead-in support as the 8 p.m. repeat of 'Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge' (0.16) declined by three-hundredths from the encore that aired a week ago (0.19). ABC's rerun of 'Will Trent' (0.18) was even with last week and led into an encore of '20/20' (0.16). CBS's 'SWAT' repeat (0.21) dipped by a hundredth. Reruns of 'Fire Country' (0.17) and 'Blue Bloods' (0.19) were flat. The CW had repeats of 'Penn & Teller: Fool Us' (0.06), 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' (0.05), and 'The Great American Joke Off' (0.05).

Finals Update: 'WWE SmackDown' (+0.1) adjusted up, as did repeats of Fire Country (+0.1), Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge (+0.1), and 20/20 (+0.1).

Time	Show	18-49 Rating	18-49 Share	Viewers (mil)	Network
8 PM	WWE SmackDown	0.69	8	2.51	Fox
	SWAT (R)	0.21	3	2.76	CBS
	Will Trent (R)	0.18	3	1.91	ABC
	Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge (R)	0.16	2	1.07	NBC
	Penn & Teller: Fool Us (R)	0.06	1	0.58	The CW
9 PM	Dateline NBC (R)	0.23	3	2.17	NBC
	Fire Country (R)	0.17	2	2.29	CBS
	20/20 (R)	0.16	2	2.18	ABC
	Whose Line Is It Anyway? (R)	0.05	1	0.49	The CW
9:30 PM	The Great American Joke Off (R)	0.05	1	0.35	The CW
10 PM	Blue Bloods (R)	0.19	2	2.93	CBS