WWE SmackDown overnight ratings down for post-Survivor Series episode

The viewership for the post-Survivor Series episode of SmackDown is down from last week's show which hit 2 million viewers.

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Last night’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown was the post-Survivor Series episode of the show and it kicked off with Universal Champion Roman Reigns voicing his disappointment in Jey Uso for not leading Team SmackDown to victory at Survivor Series and interfering in Reigns’ match against WWE Champion Drew McIntyre. According to Showbuzz Daily, the overnight ratings for the 11/27 episode were down from last week as the program averaged 1,987,000 viewers.

Last week’s program averaged 2.215 million overnight viewers and did a 0.6 in the 18-49 demographic.

For this week’s show, hour one of SmackDown drew 2.016 million and that dropped down to 1.957 million in hour two. The show did an 0.6 in the 18-49 demographic. There were no matches or segments announced until 20 minutes prior to the show going on the air. Below are the most-viewed 11/27 SmackDown-related videos on WWE’s YouTube channel:

  1. Kevin Owens vs. Jey Uso, 637,000 views
  2. Sasha Banks returns to the favor to Carmella, 479,000 views
  3. Roman Reigns chastises Jey Uso, 382,000 views
  4. Murphy vs. King Corbin, 288,000 views
  5. Jey Uso attacks Otis, 287,000 views

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