Wheel of Fortune viewers are persevering with to tune in en masse for the Ryan Seacrest period.
The Los Angeles Occasions revealed a brand new report concerning the sport present’s scores document for the reason that American Idol host took over for Pat Sajak, and it seems like that preliminary bump that adopted his September debut was no fluke.
The positioning reviews new Nielsen information exhibiting Wheel incomes a mean of seven.9 million viewers by means of December 1, 2024, which is a rise of three % from the prior yr.
That’s solely a slight dip from the main bounce in viewers scores from September, when Season 42’s premiere week loved a mean of 8.31 million per episode. (The premiere episode itself, which aired on September 9, 2024, earned a whopping 9.63 million viewers.)
The Occasions additionally reviews that the long-lived sport present has been watched by greater than 58 million folks sooner or later all through the continued season, and each Wheel and Jeopardy! are more-watched all through their regular hour than any streamer.
Maybe the explanation for the present’s continued success after this huge altering of the guard is that Seacrest reportedly requested all 8,000 episodes of the present as preparation for the gig.
Suzanne Prete, president of Sony’s sport exhibits division, advised the publication that in response to her supply to ship him 50 episodes, he replied, “No, I need to see each episode.”
He additionally reportedly obtained a tabletop model of the sport, hand-delivered by government producer Bellamie Blackstone in Miami, by which he practiced totally different eventualities for gameplay.
The results of his intense prep routine? “When he stepped on the set, it was like he’d been doing it his complete life.”
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