Frank Fritz recovers from stroke, American Pickers’ ratings improve too

It’s been a few weeks since then American collectors Star Mike Wolfe confirmed that his former travel companion Frank Fritz had a stroke and had been hospitalized. Time Apparently Fritz was not happy that Wolfe had given him the news. As for his health problem, it has been confirmed that Fritz is recovering. He isn’t even the only one improving, as recent reports seem to indicate. collectors“The odds of penance may be decreasing.

In reality, American collectors recently improved its ratings in the past few weeks, but most notably during the week of August 20, when the show finally passed one million viewers. The “Knucklehead Blue, Salty & Sweet Pickins Part 1” episodes are set in North Carolina and feature Mike mistaking him for a Mountain Dew statue.

new episodes of American collectors it started on a Saturday night in early July and showed from the start that the same episodes had apparently appeared as it was confirmed that Frank Fritz had been officially fired from the show. Early 2022, January episodes American collectors the numbers were down from around 1.3 million per episode to less than 1 million viewers. This trajectory continued downward when the show returned to air in July.

In fact, previous episodes this summer attracted over 800,000 total viewers. While some of those episodes were closer to 900,000 viewers, a July 29 episode only saw 821,000 viewers tune in. So it appears that the trajectory continues downward for the program. TV season summer / autumn 2022 return.

Now that Fritz is on the mend and Wolfe has been cheering on his old TV friend, it seems more people have decided to revive the show. The 1,007,000 spectators of the last episode, for The sun it is not a number to be laughed at given what we had seen in the previous months.

Of course, it should be noted that this is still the new version of American collectors. Mike Wolfe brought his brother Robbie after he and Frank Fritz disbanded the band . (Although Fritz voluntarily left due to health problems the other did not ask him to return collectors Star or those involved in the show in other roles.) Wolfe continues to face online criticism for what happened with the reality series, but it looks like the show is finally seeing its momentum with its new cast.

Meanwhile, Frank Fritz has said he’d love to return to television, but that’s unlikely to happen on the show that made him a household name. The good news is that he is on the mend after his stroke. He recently told a friend that he was “very determined” and that he was “getting better every day”.

Of course, we expect more good news soon, on both sides of the recovery.