Friday TV Ratings 2/28/25: RuPaul’s Drag Race, Fire Country and The Way Home Decline, WWE SmackDown Narrowly Tops NBA to Lead, Suits LA Repeat Abysmal [+ Analysis]

Ratings Analysis: After last week's slew of upticks, CBS dramas NCIS: Sydney (0.27, -0.01), Fire Country (0.30, -0.10), and SWAT (0.29, -0.05) all came back down. On ABC, a Countdown to the Oscars special (0.23) seemed to negative affect 20/20 (0.21, -0.07). The dynamic was similar on NBC as a dismal Suits LA encore (0.10) brought down Dateline (0.20, -0.02). College basketball (0.24) was down markedly from last week (0.41) on Fox. Penn & Teller (0.08, 0.00) was steady on the CW, but Masters of Illusion (0.04, -0.02) slipped. Key: (R) = repeat.

Time	Show	18-49 Rating	18-49 Share	Viewers (mil)	Network
8 PM	NCIS: Sydney	0.27	4	4.40	CBS
	College Basketball: UCLA v. Purdue	0.24	4	1.03	Fox
	Countdown to the Oscars with Robin Roberts	0.23	4	2.25	ABC
	Suits LA (R)	0.10	2	1.34	NBC
	Penn & Teller: Fool Us	0.08	1	0.61	CW
9 PM	Fire Country	0.30	4	4.29	CBS
	20/20	0.21	3	2.15	ABC
	Dateline NBC	0.20	3	2.19	NBC
	Masters of Illusion	0.04	1	0.34	CW
10 PM	SWAT	0.29	5	3.67	CBS

Cable:

Show	Network	18-49 Viewers	Viewers (mil.)
WWE SmackDown	USA	0.52	1.73
NBA: Cavaliers v. Celtics	ESPN	0.51	1.81
Jesse Watters Primetime	Fox News	0.23	4.32
Hannity	Fox News	0.20	3.33
Gutfeld!	Fox News	0.20	3.29
RuPaul's Drag Race	MTV	0.17	0.51
The Rachel Maddow Show	MSNBC	0.12	2.30
Anderson Cooper 360	CNN	0.11	0.96
Untucked	MTV	0.10	0.27
NewsNight	CNN	0.08	0.85
Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell	MSNBC	0.08	1.16
On Patrol: Live	Reelz	0.08	0.51
The Source with Kaitlan Collins	NN	0.08	0.84
Unrivaled: Phantom v. Mist	TNT	0.06	0.19
All In with Chris Hayes	MSNBC	0.06	1.32
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place	Disney	0.06	0.21
The Way Home	Hallmark	0.04	0.15
Unrivaled: Laves v. Vinyl	TNT	0.04	0.15
Real Time with Bill Maher	HBO	0.03	0.64