In a 3-way battle of marquee unscripted shows, the senior member of the club took the win.
DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2).
Ratings analysis and comparisons follow the chart.
CBS: SURVIVOR beat both THE VOICE and AMERICAN IDOL at 8PM, up 0.1 to 2.3. CRIMINAL MINDS lost 0.1 to 2.0, and CSI: CYBER remained at 1.4.
NBC: A special Wednesday edition of THE VOICE was at a mere 2.1, but it did its job by boosting SVU by 0.3 to 1.8. CHICAGO PD, however, was down 0.1 to 1.5.
ABC: THE MIDDLE was steady at 1.8, and THE GOLDBERGS was down 0.1 to 1.9. BLACKISH aired after a 1.7 MODERN FAMILY rerun instead of last week’s 3.0 fresh episode, and predictably slumped by 0.5 to 1.9. NASHVILLE dropped 0.2 to a new series low 1.1. (1.0 in its 2d half-hour.)
FOX: AMERICAN IDOL was smacked around by its reality competition, down 0.3 to 1.4.
CW: Reruns at 0.3/0.3.
CBS and FOX are new tonight, and ABC is leading off new episodes of GREY’S ANATOMY and AMERICAN CRIME with a replay of the original GREY’S pilot. On cable, FX premieres its Billy Crystal/Josh Gad vehicle THE COMEDIANS, and then has the season premiere of LOUIE.
COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.
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