This Week's WWE SmackDown Records Second Lowest Rating On FOX
TLC go-home show had almost as few viewers as Thanksgiving episode.
Friday's SmackDown ended the night with an average of 2.338 million viewers - the second lowest figure for an episode airing on FOX.
The number just slightly edges out the 2.336 million hourly mean posted for the 29 November edition, which aired the night after Thanksgiving.
This week's effort saw its audience drop 7% across two hours, with the first recording 2.42 million viewers, before dwindling to 2.257 million for the latter portion.
Ostensibly, the show was one last publicity drive for this weekend's TLC pay-per-view. No new matches were established, and the episode concluded with an impromptu tag contest between Baron Corbin & Dolph Ziggler against The New Day.
In the demographics, viewership in the 18-34 range dropped from the 0.45 posted the last two weeks to 0.4 - though this number was still first amongst rival network programming. In the 18-49 bracket, SmackDown pulled a 0.65 - again, down 0.05 on last week's figure.
Elsewhere on Friday's SmackDown, Shinsuke Nakamura & Cesaro defeated Heavy Machinery, The Revival saw off Shorty G & Ali, and The Miz invited Renee Young into his home for a heart-to-heart on the subject of Bray Wyatt.