AEW Dynamite slipped a little on October 21, drawing 661,000 viewers on TBS — down 54,000 from the prior week’s 715,000. But the bigger story is the year-over-year picture, where the show is running nearly 40% ahead of where it was in 2025.
According to Wrestlenomics, the October 21 episode posted a 0.15 rating in the key P18–49 demographic, actually ticking up from the 0.14 demo number on October 14.
AEW Dynamite (Credits: Ringside News)
AEW Dynamite Viewership: Week-to-Week vs Year-over-Year
Week to week, the drop is modest: -7.6% in viewers, with the demo up 7.1%. Against the same week in 2025 — when Dynamite drew 477,000 viewers and a 0.08 demo on October 22 — the October 21, 2026 episode is up 38.6% in viewers and up 87.5% in the demo.
The episode also sits above the show’s 2026 average of 655,631 viewers and its October average of 623,667, with a demo well ahead of the 0.12 year-to-date average.
Dynamite Still Hasn’t Cracked a Million
For all the growth, one milestone still eludes the show: Dynamite has not crossed 1 million viewers in any week of 2026, with the high-water mark of 899,000 on September 30. Note these figures cover linear TV on TBS only and do not include streaming or digital viewership.
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Source: Ringside News — read the full story there.