Ratings Highlights:<\/b> “Flash Forward” and “Grey’s Anatomy” give ABC a dominant victory as a returning “CSI” disappoints. NBC’s comedy lineup, notably “Parks and Recreation” and “Community” offered the network a dose of bad news, while FOX’s “Fringe” took a tumble of its own. “The Vampire Diaries,” nonetheless, showed some strength for The CW–episode three, against stiffer competition, made slight gains.<\/p>\n
Television ratings for the first big Thursday of the season are slowly trickling in, and the early verdict is positive for ABC.<\/p>\n
Buzzworthy “Flash Forward,” though reviewed as creatively falling short of hit series “Lost,” opened to an impressive audience of 12.4 million viewers with a 4.1 rating in 18-49. The number easily gave the premiering series the 8PM hour; the show beat out CBS’ “Survivor” (11.9 million, 3.7), FOX’s “Bones” (8.8 million, 2.7), NBC’s “Weekend Update\/Parks of Recreation” (4.7 million\/1.8, 4.2 million\/1.8) and The CW’s “Vampire Diaries” (3.8 million, 1.7).<\/p>\n
ABC then maintained its 8PM momentum as “Grey’s Anatomy” pulled off a dominant season premiere performance. Though it was down 11% from last year, the show pulled the highest scripted adults 18-49 rating so far this season with a 6.6; an average of 16.8 million viewers watched from 9-11.<\/p>\n
News was not so good for CBS’ “CSI,” which slipped 44% in the ratings for its latest season kickoff (15.7 million, 4.0). Similarly, while “The Mentalist” was solid in its new timeslot at 10PM, its numbers hardly were those of a megahit (14.3 million, 3.4).<\/p>\n
With “Grey’s” in the picture, FOX’s “Fringe” and NBC’s “Community” faced hard times. “Fringe” (5.8 million, 2.3) dipped a sharp 23% in its second Thursday airing, while the well-reviewed “Community” (5.4 million, 2.8) dropped 26%, suffering a far bigger ratings decline than lead-in “The Office” (7.3 million, 3.8).<\/p>\n
“The Jay Leno Show” did a poor number, earning just 5 million viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n