{"id":322422,"date":"2026-02-28T21:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322422\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:05:08","slug":"survivor-50-premiere-gives-cbs-its-most-watched-wednesday-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322422\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Survivor 50\u2019 Premiere Gives CBS Its Most-Watched Wednesday in Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0239195\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Survivor<\/a> certainly lived up to its \u201cOutwit, Outplay, Outlast\u201d tagline this week, as the reality competition\u2019s 50th season premiere torched its broadcast TV competition and gave <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0070627\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a> its best Wednesday night in years. According to a CBS press release, the Survivor 50 premiere on February 25 was the most-watched program that night in both total viewers \u2014 with an average of 5.06 million viewers \u2014 and viewers in the 25-to-54-year-old age group. The audience peaked at 6.18 million viewers in the first 30 minutes of the three-hour premiere and retained at least 90% of the audience for each successive half hour, the network adds. The Survivor 50 premiere also ranked as the most-watched <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0239195\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Survivor<\/a> episode since December&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Survivor certainly lived up to its \u201cOutwit, Outplay, Outlast\u201d tagline this week, as the reality competition\u2019s 50th season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3213,3214,321,3215,93,695,3211,61,60,270,43,3212,904,282],"class_list":["post-322422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322422","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=322422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}