RATINGS RECAP: 5/31/11

ABC
8:00 Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night
Viewers: 3.5 million, 18-49 demo: 1.1
8:30 NBA Countdown
Viewers: 4.8 million, 18-49 demo: 1.9
9:00 NBA Finals Game 1
Viewers: 15.2 million, 18-49 demo: 6.5

CBS
8:00 NCIS (Repeat)
Viewers: 11.3 million, 18-49 demo: 1.8
9:00 NCIS: Los Angeles (Repeat)
Viewers: 9.9 million, 18-49 demo: 1.6
10:00 The Good Wife (Repeat)
Viewers: 6.1 million, 18-49 demo: 0.9

NBC
8:00 America's Got Talent
Viewers: 15.3 million, 18-49 demo: 4.3
10:00 The Voice
Viewers: 14.4 million, 18-49 demo: 4.9

FOX
8:00 Glee (Repeat)
Viewers: 2.8 million, 18-49 demo: 1.0
9:00 Raising Hope (Repeat)
Viewers: 2.7 million, 18-49 demo: 1.1
9:30 Traffic Light
Viewers: 2.2 million, 18-49 demo: 0.8

ABC had a good night from Game 1 of the NBA Finals, which was strong. However, NBC was the big winner with a stunning debut for America's Got Talent and huge growth for The Voice. Talent premiered above last year's numbers to absolutely stellar summer numbers. In fact, NBC can't get these kind of numbers from any show in the regular season. Will NBC ever try it during the official season? At 10pm, The Voice benefited from the huge and compatible lead-in as well as not competing with Dancing with the Stars and surged a massive 5.9 million viewers and 1.1 in the demo. NBC has itself quite the Tuesday combination here. The only other original program was the series finale of the cancelled Traffic Light on FOX which went out with a whimper.