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RATINGS RECAP: 9/23/11

ABC
 8:00 Modern Family (Repeat)
Viewers: 3.9 million, 18-49 demo: 1.0
8:30 Modern Family (Repeat)
Viewers: 3.8 million, 18-49 demo: 1.1 
9:00 Revenge (Repeat)
Viewers: 4.2 million, 18-49 demo: 1.1
10:00 20/20
Viewers: 3.3 million, 18-49 demo: 1.0

CBS
8:00 A Gifted Man
Viewers: 9.5 million, 18-49 demo: 1.4
9:00 CSI: NY 
Viewers: 10.7 million, 18-49 demo: 1.8
10:00 Blue Bloods
Viewers: 12.1 million, 18-49 demo: 2.0

NBC
8:00 Up All Night (Repeat)
Viewers: 3.1 million, 18-49 demo: 0.8
8:30 Whitney (Repeat)
Viewers: 3.1 million, 18-49 demo: 0.9
9:00 Dateline NBC
Viewers: 7.2 million, 18-49 demo: 2.0

FOX
8:00 Kitchen Nightmares
Viewers: 3.9 million, 18-49 demo: 1.6
9:00 Fringe
Viewers: 3.5 million, 18-49 demo: 1.5 

CBS was the network to watch on Friday nights where the demos were skewing old as expected but total viewer count was ok. The series premiere of A Gifted Man got a pretty good sampling of viewers but skewed very old. The demo was on par with the cancelled Medium season premiere a year ago but the total viewer count was significantly higher. At 9pm, the season premiere of CSI: NY was about even in viewers but down a bit in the demo from last year's season premiere. Finally, the season premiere of sophomore Blue Bloods performed quite well for a 10pm show as it tied NBC's Dateline for the best demo of the night. The total viewer count was the highest of any show and that's important on a Friday night.

FOX brought back its spring combo to Fridays. The season premiere of Kitchen Nightmares was very low in the total viewer count but won the demo for the hour despite having about 6 million less viewers than A Gifted Man. For a Friday show, Nightmares skews young. At 9pm, the season premiere of Fringe drew a low viewer count and an ok demo, it was up in the demo from the 1.2s and 1.3s it was getting towards the end of the spring. Finally, NBC and ABC coupled repeats with newsmagazines and NBC's Dateline crushed ABC's 20/20 which is becoming more and more frequent. The long-running 20/20 seems to be running out of steam though it will still spike up sometimes when a big story happens.
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