Ratings: Alex has a forgettable week

Another slow summer week saw a new season low for Jeopardy and not much cheer for other syndie game shows. At least most of them were flat. TV News Check has the lackluster household ratings for the week of August 13-19...

Family Feud 6.1 - down a tick but still on top of the genre
Wheel of Fortune 5.3 - flat
Jeopardy 5.2 - down a couple ticks to that season low
Millionaire 1.6 - flat
Funny You Should Ask 0.5 - flat for the perennial cellar dweller

I doubt that Steve Harvey will be too concerned about the tenth of a point. Celebrity Family Feud is still drawing over six million viewers and is heading for a sixth season next summer.

A cable note: the latest run of America Says drew 440K viewers compared to 370K viewers for the latest run of Cash Cab. Trouble is, Discovery gets much better numbers overall than GSN. Not a good sign for Ben and friends.

Meanwhile, GSN got 415K/272K viewers prime time/total day for the week of August 20-26. The network ranked 34th and 29th in the windows. Pretty typical for recent weeks.