This week’s episode of Friday Night Smackdown featured the return of John Cena. They heavily promoted the return and it seems it paid off well.
According to a report by Showbuzz Daily, this week’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown received an average viewership of 2.716 million viewers for the two-hour show. The first hour brought in 2.736 million viewers for the first hour and 2.697 for the second hour.
This is a huge increase from last week’s episode, which received 2.49 million viewers for the two-hour broadcast. It had 2.542 million in the first hour and 2.438 million viewers for the second hour.