SmackDown bounces back with its best rating since September

The night before Crown Jewel, a pre-taped episode led to some lower than normal numbers for SmackDown. But Nov. 11’s fallout show was back to live, and promoting a historic installment in the long-running Usos/New Day feud.

It was a winning formula. According to Showbuzz Daily, last Friday’s SmackDown was watched by 2,264,000 viewers, an almost 6% improvement over the week before. It was also SmackDown’s biggest audience in almost a month. The show scored a .58 rating among 18-49 year olds, which was almost 21% better than Nov. 4. That rating was the blue brand’s best since Sept. 23.

SmackDown had the best demo rating of any show on television by a wide margin. The .51 recorded by ABC’s Shark Tank put it in second place.

Here’s a rundown of the past six months or so of the blue show’s numbers:

• April 1 - 2.36 million / .61
• April 8 - 2.23 / .60
• Apri 15 - 2.14 / .48
• April 22 - 1.95 / .47
• April 29 - 1.95 / .38
• May 6 - 2.00 / .46
• May 13 - 1.89 / .40
• May 20 - 2.03 / .45
• May 27 - 1.88 / .43
• June 3 - 1.94 / .47
• June 10 - 1.91 / .44
• June 17 - 2.29 / .57
• June 24 - 2.23 / .53
• July 1 - 2.14 / .49
• July 8 - 2.13 / .47
• July 15 - 2.08 / .47
• July 22 - 2.26 / .62
• July 29 - 2.19 / .52
• Aug. 5 - 2.09 / .49
• Aug. 12 - 1.93 / .44
• Aug. 19 - 2.08 / .47
• Aug. 26 - 1.99 / .48
• Sept. 2 - 2.08 / .49
• Sept. 9 - 2.37 / .57
• Sept. 16 - 2.21 / .50
• Sept. 23 - 2.54 / .63
• Sept. 30 - 2.21 / .54
• Oct. 7 - 2.24 / .54
• Oct. 14 - 2.27 / .54
• Oct. 21 - 2.23 / .52
• Oct. 28* - 835K / .23
• Nov. 4 - 2.14 million / .48
• Nov. 11 - 2.26 / .58

* Aired on FS1

For complete results and this week’s SmackDown live blog click here. To read a recap & review of the night’s events click here. For video highlights of the show click here.