Friday TV Ratings 12/26/25: Celebrity Wheel of Fortune Repeat Easily Tops the Night, WWE SmackDown Jumps with Nonexistent Competition, Happy’s Place and Stumble Repeats Top Ratings of Recent Originals [+ Analysis]

Viewers were met with an island of repeats on the day after Christmas, but it was ABC's Celebrity Wheel of Fortune encore (0.33) that posted the strongest rating. On NBC, repeats of Happy's Place (0.22) and Stumble (0.18) actually outrated last week's original airings. CBS re-aired select episodes of Fire Country (0.17/0.11/0.09). Fox aired reruns of Next Level Baker (0.11/0.12). CW special Popstar! Best of 2025 (0.03) lost to the repeat of Masters of Illusion (0.05) that followed. Key: (R) = repeat.

Time	Show	18-49 Rating	18-49 Share	Viewers (mil)	Network
8 PM	Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (R)	0.33	6	3.13	ABC
	Happy's Place (R)	0.22	4	2.31	NBC
	Fire Country (R)	0.17	3	2.07	CBS
	Next Level Baker (R)	0.11	2	0.82	Fox
	Popstar! Best of 2025	0.03	1	0.29	CW
8:30 PM	Stumble (R)	0.18	3	1.47	NBC
9 PM	20/20 (R)	0.22	4	2.35	ABC
	Dateline NBC (R)	0.16	3	1.88	NBC
	Next Level Baker (R)	0.12	2	0.79	Fox
	Fire Country (R)	0.11	2	1.80	CBS
	Masters of Illusion (R)	0.05	1	0.38	CW
10 PM	Fire Country (R)	0.09	2	1.53	CBS

Cable Highlights:

Show	Network	18-49 Viewers	Viewers (mil.)
WWE SmackDown	USA	0.27	1.14

Author : Rebecca Bunch

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