Friday TV Ratings 1/23/26: RuPaul’s Drag Race Rises Again, Happy’s Place and Stumble Jump to Season Highs, Celebrity Wheel of Fortune Also Hits Season High for Repeat [+ Analysis]

NBC sitcoms Happy's Place (0.32, +0.11) and Stumble (0.22, +0.06) jumped to new season highs on Friday night, while Dateline (0.19, -0.01) took a step down. On ABC, a repeat of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (0.34) eclipsed the rating of last week's original episode, and 20/20 (0.23, +0.04) gained some momentum. CBS aired repeats of Sheriff Country (0.16), Fire Country (0.13), and Boston Blue (0.12). The CW went with encores of Scrabble (0.02) and Trivial Pursuit (0.03). Key: (R) = repeat.

Time	Show	18-49 Rating	18-49 Share	Viewers (mil)	Network
8 PM	Men's College Basketball: OH St. v. MI	0.38	6	1.90	Fox
	Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (R)	0.34	5	3.21	ABC
	Happy's Place	0.32	5	3.46	NBC
	Sheriff Country (R)	0.16	3	3.18	CBS
	Scrabble (R)	0.02	0	0.30	CW
8:30 PM	Stumble	0.22	3	1.92	NBC
9 PM	20/20	0.23	4	2.91	ABC
	Dateline NBC	0.19	3	1.92	NBC
	Fire Country (R)	0.13	2	2.21	CBS
	Trivial Pursuit (R)	0.03	0	0.37	CW
10 PM	Boston Blue (R)	0.12	2	2.20	CBS

Cable Highlights:

Show	Network	18-49 Viewers	Total viewership rank*
WWE SmackDown	USA	0.22	8th
NHL	ESPN	0.21	10th
RuPaul's Drag Race	MTV	0.18	22nd
Gold Rush	Discovery	0.12	5th
Gutfeld!	Fox News	0.11	2nd
Untucked	MTV	0.10	63rd
Jesse Watters Primetime	Fox News	0.10	1st
Hannity	Fox News	0.08	3rd
All In with Chris Hayes	MSNOW	0.07	4th
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell	MSNOW	0.05	7th
The Source with Kaitlan Collins	CNN	0.04	11th
Anderson Cooper 360	CNN	0.04	12th
NewsNight	CNN	0.04	17th
The Briefing with Jen Psaki	MSNOW	0.04	6th
Men's College Basketball	FS1	0.03	81st
Real Time with Bill Maher	HBO	0.03	19th
Unrivaled: Mist v. Rose	TNT	0.03	131st
Unrivaled: Phantom v. Vinyl	TNT	0.03	125th
Unrivaled: Phantom v. Vinyl	TruTV	0.02	229th