THE RUNDOWN: Wednesday, April 11

ABC
8:00 The Middle #68 "Get Your Business Done"
8:30 Suburgatory #18 "Down Time"
9:00 Modern Family #67 "Election Day"
9:30 Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 #1 "Pilot" (SERIES PREMIERE)
10:00 Revenge: From the Beginning (SPECIAL)
ABC is all new for the first time in almost a month. I think the first three shows will come back to numbers similar to where they left off. At 9:30pm is the series premiere of Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 (yes, that is the name. I'm not censoring it). I would expect it to get off to a decent start since it has a good lead-in and has been well promoted. A Revenge special ahead of next week's return probably won't do much.
Prediction: Middle - 6.6 million, 2.1/Suburgatory - 5.9 million, 2.0/Family - 10.9 million, 4.6/Apartment - 8.1 million, 3.4/Revenge Special - 5.4 million, 1.3

CBS
8:00 Survivor
9:00 Criminal Minds #158 "The Company"
10:00 CSI #271 "Altered Stakes"
CBS is all new. It wouldn't shock me to see the numbers down a bit with ABC all new but I don't think it'll be down much.
Prediction: Survivor - 10.0 million, 2.7/Criminal - 11.1 million, 2.9/CSI - 11.3 million, 2.7

NBC
8:00 Betty White's Off Their Rockers
8:30 Best Friends Forever #2 "It's Raining Friends"
9:00 Rock Center with Brian Williams
10:00 Law & Order: SVU #289 "Justice Denied"
NBC is all new. The 8pm hour will likely be down from last week since last week was the premiere and now it has to face new programming on ABC. Rock Center should be low as always. Law & Order: SVU returns at 10pm after several weeks off. I could see it being close to where it was when it left.
Prediction: Rockers - 6.1 million, 1.5/Friends - 3.1 million, 1.0/Rock Center - 2.7 million, 0.7/SVU - 5.8 million, 1.7

FOX
8:00 American Idol
FOX is all new with American Idol. The competition is tougher this week and I could see Idol going down a hair.
Prediction: Idol - 16.4 million, 4.8

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