Survivor Ratings: Survivor Game Changers Episode 7 Pushes Through

"What Happened on Exile, Stays on Exile" - Brad Culpepper, Michaela Bradshaw, Troyzan Robertson, Hali Ford and Aubry Bracco on the seventh episode of SURVIVOR: Game Changers, airing Wednesday, April 12 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Jeffrey Neira/CBS Entertainment ©2017 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"What Happened on Exile, Stays on Exile" - Brad Culpepper, Michaela Bradshaw, Troyzan Robertson, Hali Ford and Aubry Bracco on the seventh episode of SURVIVOR: Game Changers, airing Wednesday, April 12 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Jeffrey Neira/CBS Entertainment ©2017 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. /
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Nobody could know what would happen Wednesday night ahead of time, but the Survivor ratings for that emotional episode leveled out anyways.

The general populace was not prepared for Survivor Game Changers on Wednesday night. They knew that Jeff Varner was in a bad position with no allies on his tribe, and that he was targeting Ozzy Lusth based on the previews for the episode. Nobody could truly have predicted what would happen at tribal council, meaning the Survivor ratings dial wasn’t notched up as it could have been had CBS shown disrespect and clued the audience in as to what would happen ahead of time.

The final Survivor ratings for Survivor Game Changers episode 7, “What Happened on Exile, Stays on Exile” are in, and it’s more of the same for the ratings and share that we’ve seen in weeks past. This very special episode received a 1.7 rating among adults 18-49 across Nielsen televisions while earning a 7 share of all active Nielsen televisions turned on at the time.

While that remains in line with what we’ve seen time and time again, the 8.31 million viewers mark the first time this season that viewership was worse than the previous episode. An estimated 90,000 fewer people watched this episode, showing a fairly small decline in viewership.

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What’s odd about the Survivor ratings so far in Survivor Game Changers is that usually the most viewers a season will receive come in on the season premiere, then slowly peter out. Now that we’re facing a two-hour merge episode next week, for it to take six weeks of television before viewership went down is a miraculous feat.

Survivor remained the most-viewed broadcast television program of Wednesday night once again, with Empire at 9 p.m. ET coming in second with 6.59 million viewers. Third place belonged to Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders in the same time slot with 5.74 million viewers.