Thursday, July 2, 2026

“American Idol” Drops 23% from Last Sunday to Second Lowest Rating of This Season: “Game of Thrones” May Be Torching Their Second Hour

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“American Idol” faced a worse fate than Dany’s dragon last night in the ratings.

“Idol” dropped 23% from last week. It’s like a free fall. Total number of viewers was 6.7 million. They lost a total of TWO MILLION fans from last week’s very high 8.7 million.

The second hour of “Idol” overlaps with “Game of Thrones,” which may explain what happened. The 9 to 10pm hour brought in just 6.598 million from an earlier 6.837 million. “Idol” fans usually stick around to see what happened to the contestants. But the pull of Westeros was too much. The key demo also plummeted!

Strange, too, since last week “Idol” was way up despite the “Thrones” Battle of Winterfell. But this week they decamped in droves!

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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