'Guatemala' Finale Outrates Past Two 'Survivors'
The biggest audience for a "Survivor" finale in the past three editions of the game tuned in Sunday to watch ex-beauty queen and radio host Danni Boatwright win $1 million.
CBS says almost 21.3 million people watched the final episode of "Survivor: Guatemala," in which the 30-year-old Boatwright won a 6-1 jury vote over Stephenie LaGrossa -- a return player from last spring's "Survivor: Palau" -- and took home the big prize. That would be the largest audience for a "Survivor" finale since the "All-Stars" edition in May 2004, which drew 24.76 million viewers.
Ratings numbers are preliminary, and CBS is basing its results on the 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. time period -- the show started late in some parts of the country thanks to late-afternoon NFL games that bled into primetime. Final numbers will be out Tuesday.
Still, it's likely the final audience figures will be an improvement over "Palau" (20.8 million) and almost certainly beat last fall's "Vanuatu" finale, which averaged 19.7 million viewers in December 2004. Sunday's finale also did better than "Vanuatu's" in the two demographic groups CBS cares most about, adults 18-49 and 25-54.
For the season, though, "Survivor: Guatemala" will likely end up trailing its two predecessors by fairly substantial margins. The current edition of the game averaged about 18.3 million viewers on Thursdays, while "Vanuatu" brought in 19.6 million and "Palau" 20.9 million per week.
Ratings for the finale won't factor into the season average, as it's considered a special and not a regular episode of the series.
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