{"id":321168,"date":"2026-02-28T03:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321168\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:43:08","slug":"cbs-lands-best-wednesday-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321168\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Lands Best Wednesday In Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe planning for Survivor<\/a> 50 has been in the works for over two years and it has seemingly paid off.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe premiere episode of the evergreen reality series helped CBS<\/a> to its most-watched Wednesday night in four years, since the finale episode of Season 42 on May 25, 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe three-hour opener (yes, three hours) was the night\u2019s number one show in both total viewers and adults aged 25-54, averaging 5.06M viewers. It peaked with 6.18m viewers\u00a0in its first half-hour but held on to at least 90% of its audience each subsequent half-hour, per Nielsen.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was up 26% from its fall 2025 premiere in total viewers and\u00a0up +19%\u00a0from its spring 2025 premiere.<\/p>\n

\n\tCBS said that its total viewership on the night was 81% higher than second-place NBC.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 50th iteration of the Jeff Probst-fronted show featured some of the show\u2019s best-known stars over the years including The White Lotus creator Mike White.<\/p>\n

\n\tJoining White in Fiji in the race to $1M were Jenna Lewis-Dougherty, Colby Donaldson, Stephenie Lagrossa Kendrick, Cirie Fields, Ozzy Lusth, Benjamin Wade, Aubry Bracco, Chrissy Hofbeck, Christian Hubicki, Angelina Keeley, Rick Devens, Jonathan Young, Dee Valladares, Emily Flippen, Q Burdette, Tiffany Ervin, Charlie Davis, Genevieve Mushaluk, Kamilla Karthigesu, Kyle Fraser, Joseph Hunter, Savannah Louie and Rizo Velovic.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the episode, Lewis-Dougherty, from Season 1, was the first to be voted out, despite her trying to get Fields booted. \u201cFirst in, first out,\u201d she said. Fraser, whp won Season 48, unfortunately also left after injuring his ankle during the challenge.<\/p>\n

\n\tMark Burnett, Jeff Probst, Matt VanWagenen, Kahaia Pearson and Jesse Jensen exec produce the series, which returns next week with a one and a half-hour episode, leading in to Padma Lakshmi\u2019s America\u2019s Culinary Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The planning for Survivor 50 has been in the works for over two years and it has seemingly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[283,93,61,60,10531,31694,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-321168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-cbs","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-survivor","13":"tag-survivor-50","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}