Friday night's Thanksgiving weekend episode of WWE SmackDown averaged 2.149 million viewers on Fox, up 4.1 percent from the previous week. It's the highest viewership for the show since October 22.
In the 18-49 demo, SmackDown finished second on network television with a 0.57 rating, up 9.6 percent from the November 19 show. That matches SmackDown's best rating in the demo since October 22 as well.
NBC's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" beat out SmackDown in the 18-49 demo with a 0.58 rating.
In 18-34, SmackDown topped all network programming with a 0.38 rating. That was up 25 percent from the prior week.
As compared to one year ago this week, SmackDown was up 0.4 percent in overall viewers but down five percent in the key demo.
Listed below are the viewership totals and 18-49 demo ratings for SmackDown over the last 11 weeks that the show has aired on Fox, factoring out the two FS1 broadcasts. This week's show was down 1.8 percent in viewers and down 1.7 percent in the demo from the recent averages.
