Friday TV Ratings: ‘Shark Tank’ & CBS Crime Dramas Split the Night

Jim Halterman April 11, 2020, 12:30 pm

Shark Tank Friday April 10 TV Ratings — ABC

The sharks were circling on Friday night’s broadcast television with ABC’s long-running Shark Tank coming out ahead for the night in the 18-49 demo with a 0.8 rating.

But with total viewers, the night belonged to CBS with MacGyver, Magnum P.I. (officially taking over Hawaii Five-0‘s time slot), and a rerun of Blue Bloods all winning their time slots with total viewers. Magnum P.I. also won its hour in the 18-49 demo.

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Given the interest in the coronavirus, news programs continue to do well with NBC’s Dateline and a two hour block of ABC’s 20/20 pulling in around 3.5 million total viewers.

Here’s the breakdown for Friday, April 10, 2020 (numbers are fast-affiliate based)

Time	Show	Adults 18-49 ratings	Total Viewers (millions)
8 p.m.	Shark Tank (ABC)	0.8	4.82
	MacGyver (CBS)	0.7	6.37
	The Blacklist (NBC)	0.7	4.83
	WWE Smackdown (Fox)	0.6	2.30
	Charmed (CW)	0.2	727,000
9 p.m.	Magnum P.I. (CBS)	0.7	7.21
	20/20 (ABC)	0.6	3.51
	The Blacklist – R (NBC)	0.5	3.28
	Dynasty (CW)	0.1	384,000
10 p.m.	20/20 (ABC)	0.6	3.48
	Dateline (NBC)	0.6	3.43
	Blue Bloods – R (CBS)	0.4	5.55