Ratings: a couple of new highs for syndies

The weather gets colder and the Nielsen numbers get better. It's been a pattern in commercial TV for a few years now, like sixty or seventy. Syndie game shows were no exception in the week of October 29-November 4. TV News Check posts the rising household ratings...

Family Feud 6.4 - up three ticks to a season high
Wheel of Fortune 6.1 - up a couple ticks to its own season high
Jeopardy 6.1 - flat
Millionaire 1.6 - up a tick to its usual number
Funny You Should Ask 0.5 - flat at its almost always number

Keep It Spotless turned in decent ratings for Nick last week, with an average of 825K viewers over four runs. It got a bigger audience than Double Dare lately.

By recent standards GSN only did so-so numbers for the week of November 5-11. 374K/269K viewers prime time/total day. The network ranked 34th and 27th in the windows. Not great but far from awful, especially because GSN remains well below full distribution among cable nets. For the month of October GSN drew 402K/277K viewers and ranked 33rd and 26th in the windows.