TV Ratings Thursday

CBS easily won Thursday with overall viewers and adults 18-49 with the two hour premiere of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains and an hour of The Mentalist.

ABC was second on a night where Grey’s Anatomy saw its lowest adults 18-49 ratings ever for an original episode.

Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains premiered to a 4.5/12 rating/share with adults 18-49 between 8p-10pm, and 14.17 million viewers up around 2% versus the premiere of Survivor: Tocatins on February 12, 2009. At 9pm it bested Grey’s Anatomy with a 4.5 adults 18-49 rating versus Grey’s 4.3. For the 9pm hour Survivor had 14.11 million average viewers to Grey’s 12.67 million.

ABC and NBC tied for first with adults 18-34, somewhat of an impressive feat for NBC since it ran with an hour of Office repeats at 10pm. Earlier in the night Community and Parks & Recreation were on par with last week’s preliminary numbers with a 2.3 adults 18-49 rating.

To nobody’s surprise, including FOX’s, a new episode of Past Life at 9pm underperformed a rerun of Bones at 8pm. And to nobody’s surprise including ABC’s, The Deep End is still DOA at 8pm.

At 10pm The Mentalist easily beat Private Practice with Adults 18-49 and and total viewers, though Private Practice crushed The Mentalist with adults 18-34 (2.9 vs. 2.0) and destroyed it with women 18-34 (4.3 vs. 2.4).

CW’s Vampire Diaries was down a bit and saw lows with adults 18-49 and even with Women 18-34 it was on the low side (perhaps a series low with a 2.4 W18-34 rating).


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