Friday TV Ratings 6/5/26: NBA Finals Decline in Game 2 but Remain Heavily Up Year-Over-Year, Paltry Return for Totally Funny Animals, WWE SmackDown Down [+ Analysis]

In game two, the NBA Finals (4.75, -0.46) declined but remained well above its competitors, giving ABC the win once more. NBC aired a repeat of America's Got Talent (0.18) and Dateline (0.19), while CBS went with encores of Sheriff Country (0.13), Fire Country (0.11), and Boston Blue (0.08). Fox gave viewers the option to watch reruns of Farmer Wants a Wife (0.08/0.08). On the CW, the performance of Totally Funny Animals (0.01/0.01) was no laughing matter, as the series returned in astonishingly poor shape, even falling behind a repeat of Penn & Teller: Fool Us (0.03). Key: (P) = premiere. (R) = repeat.

Time	Show	18-49 Rating	18-49 Share	Viewers (mil)	Network
8 PM	NBA Tip-Off	1.11	20	5.44	ABC
	America's Got Talent (R)	0.18	2	2.04	NBC
	Sheriff Country (R)	0.13	2	2.40	CBS
	Farmer Wants a Wife (R)	0.08	1	0.57	Fox
	Penn & Teller: Fool Us (R)	0.03	0	0.33	CW
8:30 PM	NBA Finals Game 2: Knicks v. Spurs	4.75	60	16.43	ABC
9 PM	Fire Country (R)	0.11	1	2.32	CBS
	Farmer Wants a Wife (R)	0.08	1	0.58	Fox
	Totally Funny Animals (P)	0.01	0	0.30	CW
9:30 PM	Totally Funny Animals	0.01	0	0.33	CW
10 PM	Dateline NBC	0.19	2	2.36	NBC
	Boston Blue (R)	0.08	1	1.87	CBS

Cable Highlights:

Show	Network	18-49 Viewers	Viewers (mil.)
WWE SmackDown	USA	0.24	1.09
Jesse Watters Primetime	Fox News	0.12	2.51
Gutfeld!	Fox News	0.10	2.16
College Baseball	ESPN	0.10	0.39
Deadliest Catch	Discovery	0.08	0.76
Hannity	Fox News	0.08	1.76
Dutton Ranch	Paramount	0.06	1.19
Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell	MSNOW	0.06	0.74
All In with Chris Hayes	MSNOW	0.05	0.92
NewsNight	CNN	0.05	0.55
The Briefing with Jen Psaki	MSNOW	0.05	0.86
College Baseball	ESPN2	0.05	0.27
MLB	MLB	0.04	0.17
Banana Ball	TruTV	0.03	0.16
Anderson Cooper 360	CNN	0.03	0.54
Real Time with Bill Maher	HBO	0.02	0.43
The Source with Kaitlan Collins	CNN	0.02	0.51