Friends Ratings
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Ratings Charts by Season
|
Season |
New Episodes |
All Episodes |
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|
Rating/Share |
Viewers |
Rating/Share |
Viewers |
Rank |
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16.9/26 |
24.8 million |
16.6/26 |
24.3 million |
8 |
|
|
20.5/33 |
31.7 million |
19.3/31 |
29.4 million |
3 |
|
|
17.5/29 |
26.3 million |
16.7/28 |
25.0 million |
4 |
|
|
16.9/28 |
25.0 million |
16.4/27 |
24.1 million |
4 |
|
|
16.5/27 |
24.7 million |
15.7/26 |
23.5 million |
2 |
|
|
15.2/25 |
22.6 million |
14.0/23 |
20.7 million |
5 |
|
|
14.2/23 |
22.1 million |
13.1/21 |
20.2 million |
5 |
|
|
16.5/26 |
26.7 million |
15.3/24 |
24.5 million |
1 |
|
|
15.2/24 |
24.0 million |
13.8/22 |
21.6 million |
2 |
|
|
16.8/26 |
26.9 million |
14.4/23 |
22.8 million |
3 |
|
Most-Watched Friends
Episodes
|
# |
Date |
Time |
Episode |
Title |
Rating/Share |
Viewers |
|
1 |
|
|
02-12 02-13 |
The One After the Super Bowl |
29.6/46 |
52.9 million |
|
2 |
|
|
10-17 10-18 |
The Last One |
29.8/43 |
52.5 million |
|
3 |
|
|
Special |
The One Before the
Last One – Ten Years of Friends |
22.0/35 |
36.9 million |
|
4 |
|
|
08-23 08-24 |
The One Where Rachel Has a Baby |
21.1/34 |
34.9 million |
|
5 |
|
|
09-01 |
The One Where No One Proposes |
20.3/31 |
34.0 million |
|
6 |
|
|
The One with the Prom Video |
21.7/32 |
33.6 million |
|
|
7 |
|
|
02-15 |
The One Where Ross and Rachel... You Know |
21.7/33 |
32.9 million |
|
7 |
|
|
02-08 |
The One with the List |
21.1/33 |
32.9 million |
|
9 |
|
|
02-10 |
The One with Russ |
21.0/31 |
32.2 million |
|
10 |
|
|
02-01 |
The One with Ross's New Girlfriend |
20.5/33 |
32.1 million |
|
11 |
|
|
08-01 |
The One After "I Do" |
19.5/31 |
31.7 million |
|
12 |
|
|
04-23 04-24 |
The One with Ross's Wedding |
21.2/35 |
31.6 million |
|
12 |
|
|
02-11 |
The One with the Lesbian Wedding |
20.8/31 |
31.6 million |
|
14 |
|
|
01-24 |
The One Where Rachel Finds Out |
21.3/32 |
31.3 million |
|
15 |
|
|
02-19 |
The One Where Eddie Won't Go |
20.0/32 |
31.2 million |
|
16 |
|
|
02-16 |
The One Where Joey Moves Out |
21.1/33 |
31.1 million |
|
16 |
|
|
05-01 |
The One After Ross Says Rachel |
20.0/33 |
31.1 million |
|
18 |
|
|
06-24 06-25 |
The One with the Proposal |
20.0/32 |
30.7 million |
|
19 |
|
|
01-17 |
The One with Two Parts, Part II |
20.8/31 |
30.5 million |
|
19 |
|
|
02-07 |
The One Where Ross Finds Out |
19.6/31 |
30.5 million |
|
21 |
|
|
01-18 |
The One with All the Poker |
20.4/31 |
30.4 million |
|
22 |
|
|
02-17 |
The One Where Eddie Moves In |
20.0/31 |
30.2 million |
|
22 |
|
|
02-03 |
The One Where Heckles Dies |
19.8/31 |
30.2 million |
|
22 |
|
|
02-06 |
The One with the Baby on the Bus |
19.7/30 |
30.2 million |
|
25 |
|
|
02-18 |
The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies |
19.9/31 |
30.1 million |
|
25 |
|
|
07-23 07-24 |
The One with Monica and |
18.7/31 |
30.1 million |
Least-Watched Friends
Episodes
|
# |
Date |
Time |
Episode |
Title |
Rating/Share |
Viewers |
|
1 |
|
|
07-21 |
The One with the Vows |
10.1/17 |
15.6 million |
|
2 |
|
|
07-20 |
The One with Rachel's Big Kiss |
10.9/19 |
16.3 million |
|
3 |
|
|
07-19 |
The One with Ross and Monica's Cousin |
11.4/19 |
16.5 million |
|
4 |
|
|
07-08 |
The One Where |
9.6/19 |
16.6 million |
|
5 |
|
|
07-22 |
The One with |
11.4/21 |
17.2 million |
|
6 |
|
|
07-18 |
The One with Joey's Award |
12.1/19 |
17.8 million |
|
7 |
|
|
09-19 |
The One with Rachel's Dream |
12.0/21 |
18.2 million |
|
7 |
|
|
01-06 |
The One with the Butt |
12.4/20 |
18.2 million |
|
9 |
|
|
01-05 |
The One with the East German Laundry Detergent |
12.9/20 |
18.6 million |
|
10 |
|
|
10-04 |
The One with the Cake |
12.4/20 |
18.8 million |
|
10 |
|
|
06-20 |
The One with Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E. |
12.8/22 |
18.8 million |
AFTER
TEN AMAZING YEARS, FRIENDS
CONCLUDES ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SITCOM RUNS OF ALL TIME AS THE NUMBER-ONE
COMEDY FOR THE SIXTH SEASON IN A ROW, AS THE SERIES FINALE MARKS THE
MOST-WATCHED ENTERTAINMENT BROADCAST IN NEARLY SIX YEARS WITH AN ESTIMATE OF
65.9 MILLION TOTAL VIEWERS WATCHING AT LEAST PART OF THE EPISODE AND AN OVERALL
AVERAGE OF 52.5 MILLION VIEWERS!
It's all over. After an amazing ten-year run during which it
possessed the ratings power to take over the anchor position for NBC's Thursday
night "Must-See TV" lineup after just one season, then never left the
top five, Friends concluded on Thursday
night, May 6, 2004, with a one-hour retrospective clip show followed by a
one-hour-and-six-minute series finale.
The last episode saw an unexpected delivery of twins from a surrogate
mother for
After weeks of aggressive
promoting by NBC and an almost unprecedented media blitz, viewers turned out en
masse to bid Friends farewell. The final ratings from Nielsen Media Research
have the episode with an incredible 52.5 million viewers! However, it is important to note that for
major television events like the Friends
finale, flaws in the Nielsen ratings system lead it to predict figures
significantly lower than the actual number of viewers who likely saw the
show. Nielsen only measures in-home
viewing, and thus completely ignores viewers who watched at someone else's
home, on college campuses and in college dormitories, at restaurants and bars,
at hotels and motels, and anywhere else where numerous Friends finale viewing parties took place. As a result, NBC Research utilized survey
data to compute a more accurate estimate of the finale's audience. Based on this estimate, the actual size of
the audience who saw at least part of the episode is 65.9 million viewers!
Airing from
The Friends finale ranks as the fourth-most-watched series finale in
television history. In 1983, the final
episode of M*A*S*H pulled an average
of 105.4 million viewers, easily the highest number in television history. Due to the proliferation of cable that has
greatly eroded network television viewership over the past twenty years, this
record will never be broken. Back then,
viewers had three channels from which to choose; now, most have close to one
hundred. The final episode of Cheers had 80.3 million viewers in 1993,
while the 1998 series finale of Seinfeld
came away with 76.2 million. Friends finished in third place overall
for the 2003-2004 television season behind CSI:
Crime Scene Investigation and American
Idol (Tuesday). Of course, Friends' average was severely diluted by
the number of reruns NBC was forced to air because of the lower number of new
episodes agreed upon for the show's final season.
To view the complete
ratings charts for all seasons of Friends,
use the links in the chart near the top of the page.
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