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AEW Dynamite & Collision Ratings Up For Three-Hour Block From Last Week

May 8, 2026 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
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AEW Dynamite & Collision was a three-hour show this week, and both numbers ticked up in the ratings while Collision’s viewership was also up. Wednesday’s show brought in a 0.10 rating for the regular two hours (aka Dynamite) and 590,000 viewers per Programming Insider. Meanwhile, the Collision hour did a 0.07 and 429,000 viewers.

The combined three hours averaged a 0.06 demo rating and 536,300 viewers. As always, those numbers do not include HBO Max viewing figures.

The Dynamite numbers are up 25.0% and down 1.0% respectively from the previous week’s 0.08 demo rating and 596,000 viewers. It was tied with the 0.10 from two weeks ago. The total viewership was the lowest since the January 21st episode had 498,000.

As for Collision, its numbers were up 16.7% and 23.6% from the May 2nd episode’s 0.06 and 347,000 viewers. Those are not directly comparable of course due to the timeslot differences. By comparison, the last time the show was paired with Dynamite (December 17th) the Collision hour did a 0.05 and 333,000.

The top show for the night was the NBA Playoff game on ESPN, which drew a 1.59 demo rating and 5.178 million viewers. Second place went to Survivor 50 on CBS with a 0.91 and 5.160 million.

As a reminder, Nielsen made an adjustment to its Big Data + Panel numbers in late January, and even the original Big Data + Panel ratings make things difficult to compare to pre-change weeks. That said. AEW Dynamite is currently averaging a 0.111 demo rating and 635,000 viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.166 and 615,000 for the same time period in 2025.

Finally, AEW Collision is averaging a 0.066 demo rating and 407,000 viewers in 2025 compared to a 0.115 and 394,000 for the same time period in 2024.