Monday, June 1, 2026

“American Idol” Down 6 Percent from Last Week, Down 2.6 Million Viewers from Wednesday

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Whatever viewers liked about “American Idol” on Wednesday night, it didn’t keep them on Thursday. The show fell a whopping 2.6 million total people from Wednesday to Thursday. From Thursday to Thursday to Thursday the loss was 6%. Hello!

Last night “Idol” scored a 3.0 in the key demo and a total 10.94 viewers. The night before they were at a 3.9 and over 13.4 mil viewers.

From last Thursday, it was quite a drop too considering they were at 3.2. Maybe they should just have one show a week? Just sayin’…

Where did everyone go? To the Olympics, “The Big Bang Theory,” and “The Millers.” Just by contrast, The Olympics scored twice as many viewers as “American Idol” — almost 20 million. “Idol” may have trouble competing against it. The competition stakes are much higher!

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York 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. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. 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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