Wednesday, July 2, 2025

The Breakdown: CBS Wednesday in 2024-25 (Survivor, The Amazing Race, The Summit and more!)




It's time for a journey through the CBS Wednesday schedule in 2024-25...


fall

Year8:008:309:009:3010:0010:30Avg
2023-24SurvivorThe Amazing Race156
210102
210156102
2024-25SurvivorThe Summit142 (-9%)
210 (+0%)73 (-28%)
210 (+0%)142 (-9%)73 (-28%)

VsAvg+79%+28%-21%+32%
Rank1/264/2620/262/26

Survivor turned in a second straight fall of megahit-level ratings, inching above last fall's Plus average when adding in the pre-premiere week season opener. However, reality newbie The Summit could not remotely live up to The Amazing Race's league average-ish standard in the second half of the night.

winter

Year8:008:309:009:3010:0010:30Avg
2023-24The Price Is Right At NightLet's Make a Deal PrimetimeFBI True87
1219147
2024-25Hollywood SquaresThe Price Is Right At NightRaid the Cage87 (+1%)
109 (-10%)93 (+3%)59 (+25%)

VsAvg+27%-5%-29%-2%
Rank9/2614/2622/2614/26

Winter filler season saw new game show Hollywood Squares keep the lights on but not quite live up to last year's The Price Is Right standard. It had a few episodes essentially burned off on Fridays at the end of the regular season, but it's returning for season two anyway. The network made up for the Squares decline at 8/7c with improvements from TPIR and Raid the Cage in the last two hours.

spring

Year8:008:309:009:3010:0010:30Avg
2023-24SurvivorThe Amazing Race148
19898
19814898
2024-25SurvivorThe Amazing Race163 (+10%)
224 (+13%)101 (+3%)
224 (+13%)163 (+10%)101 (+3%)

VsAvg+104%+63%+22%+67%
Rank1/261/267/261/26

After minimal growth in the fall, Survivor put itself back on the double-digit growth trajectory in the spring, outrating the fall season as has happened a handful of other times in Survivor's history. The Amazing Race returned with a very similar average to its two 2023-24 cycles, thus handily outperforming The Summit.

Rating the Ratings (about grades)

NameLoAvgHiy2yPlusLabelPlusy2yResults
Survivor Fall*0.60.670.8-15%212megahit+1%detail
The Price Is Right At Night0.20.310.4-22%96marginal-7%
Hollywood Squares0.10.421.7
133hit
detail
Survivor Spring*0.60.700.8-6%221megahit+12%detail
The Summit0.20.240.3
76marginal
detail
The Amazing Race Spring*0.30.320.4-14%100solid+2%detail
Raid the Cage0.20.200.3-22%63flop-7%detail

Survivor Fall: +1% in Plus is nothing by recent Survivor standards, but it was still enough to once again give the franchise its highest Plus since season two in 2001, a mark that would be surpassed yet again in the spring. Grade: B+.

Survivor Spring: This season's growth has positioned it highly enough that approaching series high levels is at least in the realm of possibility for next spring's Survivor 50 event. Compared with spring 2025, the spring 2026 season would need to go +16.9% to surpass the season two Plus and +17.5% to beat the iconic first season. It's a big ask considering how high it already is, but the two cycles in 2023-24 both had more growth than that. Grade: A.

The Amazing Race Spring: Up a touch but not nearly as much as its Survivor lead-in. Grade: B.

The names in this last table link to the shows' War of 18-49 pages. Links with an asterisk(*) have been updated with the new info. Updates to younger shows will come later in the summer.

Previous Breakdowns for CBS Wednesday: 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24

Here's the now updated Schedules Plus for CBS Wednesday.

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