Friday Night SmackDown

Friday Night SmackDown produced its second most-watched episode of the year coming off the Clash at the Castle event last weekend.

Friday Night SmackDown was unaffected by airing a taped edition of the show as it topped all network programming.

Friday Night SmackDown finished first on television for another week despite several market interruptions due to the NFL pre-season game.

Friday Night SmackDown had another first-place finish among network programming while being pre-empted in several markets.

Friday Night SmackDown did not experience the same post-SummerSlam momentum as Raw but topped all of television for the evening.

On the night before SummerSlam, Friday Night SmackDown finished first among network programming despite dropping from the week prior.

The return of Roman Reigns didn’t provide a major spike on Friday Night SmackDown but led to the show finishing second among all programming for the night.

Friday Night SmackDown experienced a dip from the prior week with the show still topping two million viewers for the third consecutive week.