“Jeopardy’ Leads for Second Week

Review based on a national syndicated rating report for the week ending September 25, 2022.

Jeopardy (5.0 live plus same day national Nielsen rating, up 2% from the week before) made it two weeks in a row at the top of the quiz and giveaway shows in the session ending September 25.

Among the closely-watched new syndication entries, a strong second week for rookie game show Pictionary (0.5, up 25%) lit up the chart with the largest percentage increase among all freshmen shows.

Turning to the new talkers, Sherri (0.7, unchanged) held a narrow lead over Jennifer Hudson (0.6, down 14%), which gave ground after going up against coverage of Queen Elizabeth’s state funeral on September 19.  Hudson was still far ahead of Nick Cannon – the show it mainly replaced – improving on it by 100%.  Breaking out of the starting gate was rookie Karamo (0.3, premiere week), which stars the popular Karamo Brown of “Queer Eye” fame.

The overall talk leader for the 18^th week in a row – including ties – was Live with Kelly and Ryan (1.5, up 7%).  Dr Phil (1.4, up 8%) was a close second.

The Billy Bush-hosted Extra (0.6, up 20%) had the strongest percentage increase among the magazine shows, tying TMZ (0.6, unchanged) for fourth place in the genre.