Friday TV Ratings 7/31/26: Shark Week Slides but Still Up Year-to-Year, WWE SmackDown Jumps, Celebrity Jeopardy! and Dateline NBC Top Broadcast [+ Analysis]

NBC's Dateline (0.21, 0.00) was steady with last week and above most offerings, but ABC's repeat of Celebrity Jeopardy! (0.21) matched it in the key demo. CBS aired repeats of Sheriff Country (0.18), Fire Country (0.15), and Boston Blue (0.10). Fox went with reruns of MasterChef (0.10) and Nation's Dumbest (0.12). Totally Funny Animals (0.02, 0.00) was stable on the CW. Key: (R) = repeat.

Time	Show	18-49 Rating	18-49 Share	Viewers (mil)	Network
8 PM	Celebrity Jeopardy! (R)	0.21	4	2.57	ABC
	Sheriff Country (R)	0.18	4	2.50	CBS
	America's Got Talent (R)	0.16	3	1.79	NBC
	MasterChef (R)	0.10	2	0.73	Fox
	Penn & Teller: Fool Us (R)	0.04	1	0.43	CW
9 PM	20/20 (R)	0.19	3	2.48	ABC
	Fire Country (R)	0.15	3	1.95	CBS
	Nation's Dumbest (R)	0.12	2	0.70	Fox
	Totally Funny Animals	0.02	0	0.37	CW
9:30 P:M	Totally Funny Animals	0.02	0	0.41	CW
10 PM	Dateline NBC	0.21	4	2.03	NBC
	Boston Blue (R)	0.10	2	1.84	CBS

Cable Highlights:

Show	Network	18-49 Viewers	Viewers (mil.)
WWE SmackDown	USA	0.31	1.38
Sharkzilla Takes New York	Discovery	0.14	0.68
Secrets of the Great White Kill	Discovery	0.12	0.57
Everything On the Menu	USA	0.12	0.54
My Strange Shark Addiction	Discovery	0.11	0.46
Jesse Watters Primetime	Fox News	0.09	2.41
Everything On the Menu	USA	0.08	0.37
Banana Ball	ESPN	0.07	0.28
Gutfeld!	Fox News	0.07	2.29
Hannity	Fox News	0.05	1.91
Banana Ball	TruTV	0.04	0.13
Power Book III: Raising Kanan	Starz	0.04	0.19
The Briefing with Jen Psaki	MSNOW	0.04	1.03
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell	MSNOW	0.04	0.95
NewsNight	CNN	0.04	0.67
All In with Chris Hayes	MSNOW	0.04	1.04
Real Time with Bill Maher	HBO	0.04	0.41
Anderson Cooper 360	CNN	0.04	0.64
The Source with Kaitlan COllins	CNN	0.04	0.58