Last Week's WWE Smackdown Viewership, Rating Score Best Figures In A Month

-- Friday's episode of WWE Smackdown was up in overnight viewership numbers released yesterday. The two-hour show averaged 1.536 million viewers, not only up from last week's 1.428 million but a four-week high. In the 18-49 demographic, Smackdown scored a 0.47 rating, also its best figure in that category since October 11.

-- Smackdown sat atop the nightly cable charts in first spot beating out an NBA game on ESPN that aired head-to-head as well as a college basketball game on ESPN2 and a college football game on Fox that ran directly against Smackdown for an hour.