{"id":460823,"date":"2026-05-21T23:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460823\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T23:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:14:09","slug":"survivor-50-scores-cbs-series-best-finale-audience-in-6-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460823\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Survivor 50′ Scores CBS Series’ Best Finale Audience In 6 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSurvivor<\/a> 50 ended on a high note with the franchise\u2019s most-watched finale in six years.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe finale episode, which aired Wednesday night, drew 5.78M live + same-day viewers, per Nielsen\u2019s preliminary panel only data. That\u2019s the best since the Season 40 finale pulled 7.61M viewers on May 13, 2020. These numbers will likely slightly increase in the final dataset from Nielsen, but not enough to change this feat.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Survivor 50<\/a> finale was also up 20% week-over-week, according to Nielsen.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso based on preliminary panel-only ratings, last night\u2019s finale was up 32% compared to the most recent finale on December 17, which drew 4.39M live + same-day viewers. It also grew 35% compared to the 4.29M who tuned in for last year\u2019s spring finale. Season-to-date, the average audience is up 17%.<\/p>\n

\n\tMultiplatform highlights are not yet available for the entire season, but so far the season is averaging 9.8M viewers across platforms in L+35, marking a 26% increase over the fall season (which averaged 7.8M. Survivor 50 is up 19% from the spring 2025 season\u2019s 8.2M L+35 viewers.<\/p>\n

\n\tWednesday night\u2019s live finale crowned Aubry Bracco\u00a0the winner. <\/a>In a dramatic conclusion to the Emmy-winning series\u2019 milestone season, host and executive producer Jeff Probst revealed the jury\u2019s votes, ultimately naming the New Hampshire native the Sole Survivor and $2M winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Survivor 50 ended on a high note with the franchise\u2019s most-watched finale in six years. The finale episode,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[283,93,61,60,10531,31694,282,15263],"class_list":["post-460823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-cbs","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-survivor","tag-survivor-50","tag-tv","tag-tv-ratings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460823","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=460823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}