The TV Ratings Guide: star trek ratings

Ratings Analysis: Paramount+ original 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' (0.18/0.15) made its broadcast debut on CBS in modest fashion. This is perhaps a touch better than the premieres of recent "streaming transplants" like 'Baking It' (0.13) and 'Ms. Marvel' (0.11), but the difference is not meaningful enough to frame 'Trek' as some sort of success, especially since those two aired on a Saturday. A rerun of '48 Hours' (0.12) followed the 'Trek' launch. 'WWE Smackdown' (0.53, -0.12) dealt with another harsh blow on Fox, but it remained well above the rest. NBC had reruns of 'America's Got Talent' (0.22) and 'Dateline' (0.19). ABC went with encores of 'Will Trent' (0.15) and '20/20' (0.28). '20/20' was nearly a tenth above 'Dateline' this time around, a stark contrast to their usual dynamic. The CW aired 2004 film 'Friday Night Lights' (0.05) and got a better rating out of it than the week-ago 'Family Law' finale.

Finals Update: All shows held their preliminary rounded ratings.

Ratings Analysis: Fox's 'WWE Smackdown' (0.52, -0.01) shed a hundredth but more than doubled all other competitors in the Adults 18-49 demographic on a particularly dull Friday evening. ABC's 'The New Face of Hollywood' special (0.20) (packaged under the "Soul of a Nation" branding) had a very dismal performance, so much so that the rerun of '20/20' (0.23) that followed outpaced it by a few ticks. But though the alphabet network struggled, it was CBS's broadcast of 'Star Trek Into Darkness' (0.15) that reached laughable levels. NBC was on slightly stronger footing than CBS with its reruns of 'That's My Jam' (0.23) and 'Dateline' (0.23). The CW's reruns of 'Penn & Teller: Fool Us' (0.07), 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' (0.06), and 'The Great American Joke Off' (0.05) performed about the same as first-run episodes do.

Finals Update: Repeats of 'That's My Jam' (-0.1) and 'Dateline NBC' (-0.1) adjusted down.