TV Ratings: CBS' crime, ABC's bear win Thursday

Private Practice wasn't the season premiere last night.

Private Practice was not the season premiere. That was last week

Private Practive was not a Premiere, it was the 2nd one for this season. Get your facts write before you post it.

What was Survivor tied with in the 18-49 category?

Was thinking the same thing, what did Survivor tie with???

I first mentioned a couple of weeks back how I thought FlashForward would eventually settle into the 6.0-6.5 range, but now it's just dipped a tad below that. While it could still be considered to be within range, it also could mean that the show might be headed into some ratings trouble if it slips another half-point or so next week. Viewers could be already wearying of the protracted storyline. Meanwhile, there's no discernible difference in the 8 pm hour now that NBC has Community paired with Parks & Recreation, so no upward momentum for either or both shows should be expected. It seems to be the status quo in the 9 pm hour, though a bit down for all shows, except for the special hour-long Office episode which saw it achieve one of its higher ratings, but in all the time the show has been on the air, it rarely has managed to get much past the 5.2 point, indicating that's its maximum draw among viewers. And it looks like The Mentalist, though doing very well in its new slot, is still noticeably a point weaker now than last season.

It's rough that all the good shows on tv seem to be shoved into Thursdays. I agree with some of the comments about the Wednesday night lineup that there's an absolute absence of anything worth watching that night. The same is probably true for Friday nights, but that's nothing new.

I've been a fan of The Office since the beginning and I also happen to be a fan of Fringe, and it bothers me that they compete at the same time slot. (I also used to like Grey's Anatomy in the beginning) I really wish FOX didn't move Fringe. At the very least, I wish FOX would chill out with hyping Glee and that media critics would hop off the bandwagon. It's not a good show and it's frustrating to see a show that deserves to be cancelled to be hyped up so much. I would be satisfied if FOX cancelled Glee and moved Fringe to Wednesdays or even back to its original Tuesdays where it could grab back the audience it had last season. The Thursday 9 p.m. slot is just too competitive.

On a Bones related note, looks like Vincent might not make it back after all. :( I had hopes that he would be one of the three rotating interns, but doesn't look like it. On a weirder note, Daisy is coming back next week?

Umm, the link that brought me to this article states "ABC's bear win Thursday". Now, I DVR'd Grey's & PP but haven't watched them yet and when I saw that title it made me think there was a bear involved with one of the shows, lol. But, do they actually mean bare as as in "ABC barely wins Thursday"? If so, that's too funny.

So once again, we are told there are multiple winners...

Is it those ridiculous children soccer games where they don't keep score that are coming home to roost in this effort to find winners everywhere?

ABC is having a disastrous year, but yet journalists compliantly say they're doing great...

Also Hahn, last year CBS grossed 1 Billion more than NBC even though they had roughly the same 18-49 ratings. 18-49 is not "coveted" except by network and PR executives looking for a way to get the press to write that they "won"...

Sheree, the article was an effort by the headline writer to please ABC by making them a winner (and trying to be "in the know by mentioning a reference to the show that those who haven't watched it will find obscure), even though CBS won the night.

Hahn also chose to follow ABC's PR by using the irrelevant 18-49 numbers to hide the fact that Gray's could not out-rate CBS's ebbing CSI and was also out-rated by The Mentalist.

In general, I entirely disagree with those saying that Thursday is strong in any way.

CBS used to get 30 million viewers for CSI on that night, so was NBC way back. Now the highest rated show got 14 million...

The night is a night of disappointments.

On ABC, Flash Forward is collapsing (and I think the pallid video look of that show has a lot to do with it), Grey's is very far from its heights and Private Practice still can't get 10 million viewers in spite of Leno drawing fewer and fewer viewers.

At CBS, Survivor and CSI are mere shadown of their former selves, even if they still allow CBS to win the night and the move of The Mentalist is so far a great disappointment (I still stick to my prediction but regardless, CBS has to be disappointed by those numbers)

At FOX, Bones is still doing its so-so relatively solid (compared to the rest of the network) numbers and Fringe is showing why it was never a hit and J.J. Abrams and his cohorts have added yet another bomb to their credits.

At NBC an Office stunt didn't save it from 4th place (because The Office is so lowly rated in the first place) and Community and Parks are clearly more bombs for the Jeff Zucker network, while Leno keeps living down to its low expectations.

CW on its best night is still a non-entity and will be beaten by lowly Univision.

That's essentially a night without a single point of light, but ABC keeps hyping itself as if it were triumphant and the rest of the group seems in complete denial.

In particular, NBC, which used to have "Must-See Thursday" now has its Thursday the lowest-rated night (except for Saturday that it essentially doesn't program). It's hard to imagine how Jeff Zucker can escape all those questions from GE (he is a very adept man, just not at programming a network).