{"id":494595,"date":"2026-02-28T00:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494595\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:12:10","slug":"survivor-50-scrubs-premiere-ratings-are-solid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494595\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Survivor 50,\u2019 \u2018Scrubs\u2019 Premiere Ratings Are Solid"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe milestone 50th edition of Survivor<\/a> pulled in solid ratings numbers Wednesday night \u2014\u00a0as did another show that debuted in the early 2000s, ABC\u2019s revival of Scrubs<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe supersized Survivor 50 premiere<\/a> averaged 5.06 million viewers over its three hours. That\u2019s the biggest same-day audience for Survivor episode since the penultimate episode of season 45 in December 2023. The show also delivered CBS\u2019 best Wednesday night performance since May 2022\u2019s season 42 finale of Survivor.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe premiere also posted a 0.95 rating among adults 18-49 (equivalent to about 1.29 million people in that age range) \u2014\u00a0the best night one showing for Survivor since November 2021 \u2014 and a 1.22 rating among adults 25-54 (about 1.53 million viewers in that demo). Both figures led primetime on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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\n\tScrubs premiered with two episodes on ABC Wednesday, with the revived series airing its first episodes since 2010<\/a>. The debut episode pulled in 4.41 million viewers and a 0.66 rating in the 18-49 demographic; the latter is the best same-day mark for any network comedy in its regular time period so far this season (i.e., excluding post-NFL premieres for NBC\u2019s The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins and Fox\u2019s Animal Control). The second episode averaged 3.52 million viewers and a 0.55 rating among adults 18-49. ABC reran the two episodes in the 10 p.m. hour, where they averaged 1.32 million viewers.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing Scrubs, ABC premiered the Nate Bargatze-hosted game show The Greatest Average American. It drew 2.38 million viewers and a 0.27 rating in the 18-49 demo, improving on The Golden Bachelor\u2019s averages in the same spot last fall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The milestone 50th edition of Survivor pulled in solid ratings numbers Wednesday night \u2014\u00a0as did another show that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,43166,2355,92,9611],"class_list":{"0":"post-494595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-scrubs","10":"tag-survivor","11":"tag-tv","12":"tag-tv-ratings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}