The Friends farewell tour might be in full swing, but the All-Stars edition of CBS' Survivor is continuing to show that it's more than capable of holding its own versus the final episodes of the legendary NBC comedy.

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According to final Nielsen ratings for Thursday, February 19. Survivor: All-Stars' third Thursday broadcast once again drew over 22 million viewers, numbers that continue to be well above the comparable figures of the program's most recent Survivor: Pearl Islands and Survivor: The Amazon series.

While losing to Friends in the first half-hour, Survivor: All-Stars still finished first in the overall 8-9 PM ET/PT time period with 22.80 million overall viewers and a 10.3/24 Adults 24-54 rating/share while placing second in Households (12.9/20) and Adults 18-49 (8.7/22).

At 8:30 PM, Survivor added 3.40 million viewers (24.50 million from 21.10 million) and was up 15% in Households (13.8/21 from 12.0/19), 18% in Adults 25-54 (11.1/25 from 9.4/23), and 19% in Adults 18-49 (9.4/23 from 7.9/21). Illustrating that even the newly rescheduled Will & Grace is no match for Survivor, the performance powered CBS to a first place finish in Households, Viewers, Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54 during the 8:30-9:00PM time period.