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TV ratings: 'Law & Order: LA' starts OK but CBS wins Wednesday
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Fast National ratings for Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010The premiere of "Law & Order: Los Angeles" won its time period Wednesday, but CBS led the other two hours of primetime and captured the night's biggest audience. The night's other new shows all dipped a bit from their premieres last week,; "The Defenders" and "Undercovers" took the biggest hits, each falling by more than 1.5 million viewers.
CBS brought in 12.3 million viewers and a 7.5 rating/13 share among households for the evening, beating second-place NBC (8.95 million, 5.7/10) by a pretty comfortable margin. ABC (7.3 million, 4.7/8) came in third. FOX drew 6.3 million viewers and a 3.7/6 for fourth place, while The CW (2.6 million, 1.7/3) was steady with last week.
The Eye was the only network to score above a 3.0 rating among adults 18-49, finishing with a 3.2. FOX took second in the demo with a 2.9, and NBC, 2.5, edged ABC, 2.4, for third. The CW posted a 1.1.
Wednesday hour by hour:
8 p.m.
CBS: "Survivor: Nicaragua" (12.2 million viewers, 7.1/12 households)
ABC: "The Middle" (8.3 million, 5.3/9)/"Better With You" (7.1 million, 4.6/8)
NBC: "Undercovers" (7.1 million, 4.6/8)
FOX: "Hell's Kitchen" (6 million, 3.5/6)
The CW: "America's Next Top Model" (2.9 million, 1.9/3)
18-49 leader: "Survivor: Nicaragua" (3.4)
9 p.m.
CBS: "Criminal Minds" (14.4 million, 8.8/14)
ABC: "Modern Family" (11.9 million, 8.6/14)/"Cougar Town" (7.1 million, 4.5/7)
NBC: "Law & Order: SVU" (9.25 million, 5.9/10)
FOX: "Hell's Kitchen" (6.6 million, 3.8/6)
The CW: "Hellcats" (2.25 million, 1.5/2)
18-49 leader: "Modern Family" (4.5)
10 p.m.
NBC: "Law & Order: Los Angeles" series premiere (10.5 million, 6.7/12)
CBS: "The Defenders" (10.4 million, 6.6/12)
ABC: "The Whole Truth" (4.7 million, 3.3/6)
18-49 leader: "Law & Order: Los Angeles" (3.1)
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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Hey! What happened to the ratings for hellcats on the CW at 9pm??
What about Better With You?
Wait. What about The Good Wife?
You forgot about hellcats!!
Post is updated now. My bad.
What about better with you?
Good ratings for an AJ Cook-centric episode of Criminal Minds, too bad she won't be back :-(
they're does miss thang divet rick de porter again leafing out info and posting the wrong things. Guess that is what happends when you higher someone with only a GTL and not a HS degree, poor things, lol.
Once again, ABC's LOL commodities wiped the floor with the other netwerks as accepted, since the other netwerks dont no how to be funny.
Looks like "Law is not gonna be ordered" is over with. Not a smart move to renew a program that people no longer care about. The Whole Truth is slowly cunting into the other netwerks audience and will be the weiner of tuesday nights by the end of Xtina Eve, mark my works.
Was Foxy even on last nite? poor things.
Law & Order L.A. did very well for me but Undercovers still got me hooked and I wish Criminal Minds won't be the same without A.J. Cook and I can't figure it out why some people watch Better with You it's one of the worst new comedy I've ever seen.
SVU did well in a tough timeslot last night, and the ratings for the Los Angeles spin-off are alright.