The August 27th episode of WWE SmackDown on FOX drew an average of 2,870,000 viewers and a .65 rating in the 18-49 demographic, up from last week’s show which drew an average of 2,237,000 viewers, according to early overnight numbers.

In terms of the hour-by-hour viewership, the first hour of the show drew 2,930,000 viewers, but dropped back to 2,810,000 viewers in the second hour.

It should be noted that this is the early overnight numbers, likely bumped up due to NFL on FOX preemptions, as over twenty FOX affiliates aired NFL preseason games, as opposed to the weekly WWE SmackDown episode.