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TV ratings: 'Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains' starts strong Thursday
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Fast National ratings for Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010The premiere of "Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains" drew some solid ratings for CBS Thursday -- it was up substantially from the "Samoa" debut in September -- and led the network to a pretty easy ratings win for the night.
CBS scored 14.7 million viewers and an 8.6 rating/14 share in households in primetime to finish well ahead of No. 2 ABC (9.1 million, 6.1/10). FOX (6.7 million, 4.0/6) came in third. NBC could muster only 5 million viewers and a 3.1/5. The CW (3 million, 1.9/3) trailed.
CBS also led among adults 18-49 with a 4.2 rating. ABC took second with a 3.0, beating out NBC's 2.4. FOX, 1.8, was fourth, followed by The CW at 1.3.
Thursday hour by hour:
8 p.m.
CBS: "Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains" premiere (14.2 million viewers, 8.2/13 households)
FOX: "Bones" rerun (8.1 million, 4.9/8)
ABC: "The Deep End" (5.7 million, 3.8/6)
NBC: "Community" (5.25 million, 3.3/5)/"Parks and Recreation" (5 million, 3.1/5)
The CW: "The Vampire Diaries" (3.55 million, 2.3/4)
18-49 leader: "Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains" (4.6)
9 p.m.
CBS: "Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains" premiere (14.1 million, 8.0/12)
ABC: "Grey's Anatomy" (12.7 million, 8.2/13)
NBC: "The Office" (7.4 million, 4.5/7)/"30 Rock" (6.1 million, 3.8/6)
FOX: "Past Life" (5.3 million, 3.1/5)
The CW: "Supernatural" (2.5 million, 1.6/3)
18-49 leader: "Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains" (4.5)
10 p.m.
CBS: "The Mentalist" (15.7 million, 9.7/17)
ABC: "Private Practice" (9.1 million, 6.1/10)
NBC: "The Office" reruns - two episodes (3.1 million, 2.1/3)
18-49 leader: "The Mentalist" (3.6)
Ratings information includes live and same-day DVR viewing. All numbers are preliminary and subject to change. Source: The Nielsen Company.
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Survivor shows that it is still the Grand daddy of all reality shows. This is going to be a good season with all of our favorites back. Keeping CBS in its usual #1 spot.
ABC was boring with its medical snooze fest, but at lease they dumped Ugly Betty.
Bones is showing good strength! but they should have kept Fringe on at 9.
Survivor is still number 1 on their timeslot. And hahahaa at beating the overrated Grey's Anatomy. Survivor is still kicking some major as* for their 10th year anniversary! That's what I call..longevity!!!!
CBS AND ABC are the clear winners last night, with the exception of that Deep End show, which needs to be canceled once and for all. So happy NBC tanked yet again and yet they renewed P&R for some reason? Explain that one.
Yeah the deep end needs the ax. I knew before it even started that show was gonna bomb.
The Deep End is helping to kill ABC's lineup. What a weak lead for Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice. ABC development is run by a team of monkeys. Always Backing Cheap, boring, moronic dramedies. Those idiots will never learn.
Well NBC will be in first place until march now with the olympics
more people should really start watching supernatural its a great show but stupid CW is too busy promoting the vampire diaries and forgot all about supernatural. oh and the mentalist rocks.
Why is Jerry wearing BDU's ?that a proad uniform, and u have to erean it...Try 1966 nam....
The Mentalist once again won Thursday, but the press will keep hammering on how Glee and Modern Family are huge hits and never talk about actual hits if they happen to be on CBS...
The takeaway? It's better to manage for actual results than to spin the press. :)