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TV Ratings 7/7/17: 'Dateline' Strong, 'What Would You Do?' Sinks From Premiere, '20/20' Low (UPDATED)

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Time	Show	18-49 Rating	Total Viewers     (In Millions)
8:00pm	America’s Got Talent (R) (NBC)	0.8	4.80
	Shark Tank (R) (ABC)	0.7	3.71
	MacGyver (R) (CBS)	0.5	4.05
	MasterChef (R) (FOX)	0.5	1.38
	Masters of Illusion (CW)	0.2	0.95
8:30pm	Masters of Illusion (CW)	0.2	0.88
9:00pm	What Would You Do? (ABC)	0.8	3.77
	Hawaii Five-0 (R) (CBS)	0.5	4.61
	Beat Shazam (R) (FOX)	0.4	1.22
	Riverdale (R) (CW)	0.1	0.43
10:00pm	Dateline NBC (NBC)	0.9	5.14
	Blue Bloods (R) (CBS)	0.6	5.50
	20/20 (ABC)	0.6	3.16

(R) = repeat

Finals Update: 'What Would You Do?' (0.8) adjusted up.

ABC's 'What Would You Do?' (0.7) dropped two-tenths from its two-week ago premiere. Nevertheless, it's still a digestible number for Fridays. 'What Would You Do?' led out of a solid repeat of Sunday-bound Shark Tank (0.7) and led into a really low '20/20' (0.6). '20/20' lost head-on to a Dateline original on NBC (0.9), though 'Dateline' did have a stronger lead-in with an 'AGT' repeat (0.8).

CBS had drama repeats (0.5/0.6/0.6) while Fox had more reality encores (0.5/0.4).

The CW had more original Masters of Illusion (0.2/0.2). It was steady with last week and even on a year-to-year basis. It led into a low Riverdale repeat (0.1). 

TV Ratings 6/30/17: 20/20 Inches Down, Masters of Illusion Starts Well (UPDATED)

Friday Ratings

Time	Show	18-49 Rating	Total Viewers          (In Millions)
8:00pm	America’s Got Talent (R) (NBC)	0.8	4.15
	Shark Tank (R) (ABC)	0.7	3.58
	MacGyver (R) (CBS)	0.5	4.07
	MasterChef (R) (FOX)	0.4	1.32
	Masters of Illusion (P) (CW)	0.2	1.00
8:30pm	Masters of Illusion (CW)	0.2	0.92
9:00pm	What Would You Do? (R) (ABC)	0.7	3.29
	Hawaii Five-0 (R) (CBS)	0.6	4.95
	Beat Shazam (R) (FOX)	0.4	1.30
	Riverdale (R) (CW)	0.1	0.46
10:00pm	20/20 (ABC)	0.8	4.15
	Dateline NBC (NBC)	0.7	4.07
	Blue Bloods (R) (CBS)	0.6	5.29

(R) = repeat
(P) = premiere

Finals Update: The premiere of Masters of Illusion (0.2/0.2) and a repeat of Riverdale (0.1) adjusted down on The CW. A Blue Bloods repeat (0.6) adjusted up on CBS.

ABC's 20/20 (0.8) lost two-tenths from last week but was still the #1 original program of the night. It also beat NBC's Dateline (0.7) head-on. The latter was also down two-tenths from last week. 20/20 had less help this week as it led out of repeats of Shark Tank (0.7) and What Would You Do? (0.7). Dateline led out of a repeat of America's Got Talent (0.8), the latter was the top program of the night.

CBS had drama repeats (0.5/0.6/0.5) while Fox had reality show repeats (0.4/0.4).

The CW had the premiere of Masters of Illusion (0.3/0.3). It was exactly even with its year-ago premiere. It led into the second episode of a summer-long Riverdale repeat marathon (0.2).

TV Ratings 6/23/17: What Would You Do? Has Solid Start, The Originals Finale Steady (UPDATED)

Friday Ratings

ABC

Time	Show	18-49 Rating	Total Viewers          (In Millions)
8:00pm	America’s Got Talent (R) (NBC)	0.9	4.28
	Shark Tank (R) (ABC)	0.7	3.70
	MacGyver (R) (CBS)	0.6	4.27
	MasterChef (R) (FOX)	0.4	1.53
	The Originals (F) (CW)	0.3	0.80
9:00pm	What Would You Do (P) (ABC)	0.9	4.03
	Hawaii Five-0 (R) (CBS)	0.5	5.02
	Beat Shazam (R) (FOX)	0.4	1.27
	Riverdale (R) (CW)	0.1	0.48
10:00pm	20/20 (ABC)	1.0	4.75
	Dateline NBC (NBC)	0.9	4.32
	Blue Bloods (R) (CBS)	0.6	5.51

Finals Update: A repeat of MacGyver (0.6) adjusted up while repeats of Hawaii Five-0 (0.5) and Riverdale (0.1) adjusted down.

Friday night got a little more interesting as ABC had the premiere of newsmagizine What Would You Do? (0.9). That was a good bit above what it was doing Tuesdays at 10 in 2015-16 season, but exactly even with last year's summer premiere. It also managed to build from its Shark Tank repeat lead-in (0.7). At 10, 20/20 (1.0) managed to pull ahead of NBC's Dateline (0.9) as the former tackled the story of Otto Warmbier. Both had similar-sized lead-ins with Dateline having a repeat of America's Got Talent (0.9).

After airing an original 48 Hours last week, CBS stayed out of the original game with drama repeats (0.5/0.6/0.6).

Fox had repeats of their Wednesday and Thursday centerpieces (0.4/0.4).

The CW showcased the season finale of The Originals (0.3), steady with last week, and the start of a Riverdale (0.2) repeat marathon.