It's time for a journey through the CBS Wednesday schedule in 2023-24...
fall
| Year | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | Survivor | The Amazing Race | 114 | ||||
| 169 | 92 | 80 | |||||
| 2023-24 | Survivor | The Amazing Race | 156 (+69%) | ||||
| 210 (+24%) | 102 (+28%) | ||||||
| 210 (+24%) | 156 (+69%) | 102 (+28%) | |||||
| VsAvg | +85% | +42% | +9% | +48% | |||
| Rank | 1/25 | 1/25 | 10/25 | 1/25 | |||
Citing the writers' strike, CBS finally expanded Survivor to regular 90-minute episodes for the first time in series history, and was handsomely rewarded for its efforts. Both Survivor and The Amazing Race surged in the almost scripted-free fall landscape, with Survivor clearly emerging as the dominant force in broadcast primetime entertainment.
winter
| Year | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | The Price Is Right At Night | Lingo | Tough As Nails | 94 | |||
| 131 | 88 | 65 | |||||
| 2023-24 | The Price Is Right At Night | Let's Make a Deal Primetime | FBI True | 87 (-8%) | |||
| 121 (-7%) | 91 (+3%) | 47 (-27%) | |||||
| VsAvg | +42% | -8% | -44% | -3% | |||
| Rank | 6/25 | 15/25 | 25/25 | 14/25 | |||
Game shows again filled the gap between Survivor/TAR seasons. Most of CBS' decline can be attributed to the 10/9c hour, where CBS began airing new episodes of the previously Paramount+ original FBI True.
spring
| Year | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | Survivor | FBI (R) | True Lies | 92 | |||
| 167 | 56 | 52 | |||||
| 2023-24 | Survivor | The Amazing Race | 148 (+166%) | ||||
| 198 (+19%) | 98 (+86%) | ||||||
| 198 (+19%) | 148 (+166%) | 98 (+86%) | |||||
| VsAvg | +89% | +52% | +19% | +56% | |||
| Rank | 1/25 | 1/25 | 9/25 | 1/25 | |||
Survivor was up almost as much year-to-year in the spring. The Amazing Race held up quite well airing two cycles in a season for the first time since 2015-16.
Rating the Ratings
| Name | Lo | Avg | Hi | y2y | Plus | Label | Plusy2y | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Survivor Fall* | 0.7 | 0.80 | 0.8 | +10% | 210 | megahit | +24% | detail |
| The Price Is Right At Night | 0.3 | 0.39 | 0.5 | -26% | 103 | hit(sum) | -17% | |
| Survivor Spring* | 0.6 | 0.75 | 0.8 | +6% | 197 | big hit | +19% | detail |
| Let's Make a Deal Primetime | 0.2 | 0.28 | 0.4 | 74 | solid(Fri) | |||
| The Amazing Race Fall* | 0.3 | 0.39 | 0.4 | +5% | 102 | solid | +18% | detail |
| The Amazing Race Spring* | 0.3 | 0.37 | 0.4 | 98 | marginal | detail | ||
| FBI True | 0.2 | 0.18 | 0.2 | 47 | flop |
Survivor Fall: It was Survivor's first megahit season since 2004, and the highest-rated season in Plus since season two all the way back in 2001. Still got a long way to go to reach those first two seasons (259/258) but it's hard to completely count it out with the way it's trending. Not quite freakish enough for the elusive A+ but if it has the same growth next season and gets to those season one/two levels I will strongly consider it. Grade: A.
Survivor Spring: See above. Grade: A.
The Amazing Race Fall: Much like Dancing with the Stars, this is on the verge of A territory but I need to take it down a notch just to denote it was less impressive than Survivor and The Bachelor (and it was surely helped along by the Survivor heat). Grade: A-.
The Amazing Race Spring: See above. Grade: A-.
The names in this last table link to the shows' War of 18-49 pages. Links with an asterisk(*) have been updated with the new info. Updates to younger shows will come later in the summer.
Previous Breakdowns for CBS Wednesday: 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23
Here's the now updated Schedules Plus for CBS Wednesday.
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