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RATINGS RECAP: 9/28/12

ABC8:00 Shark Tank
Viewers: 6.1 million, 18-49 demo: 1.5
9:00 Last Resort (Repeat)
Viewers: 3.9 million, 18-49 demo: 1.1
10:00 20/20
Viewers: 4.1 million, 18-49 demo: 1.3

CBS
8:00 CSI: NY
Viewers: 9.1 million, 18-49 demo: 1.3
9:00 Made in Jersey
Viewers: 7.8 million, 18-49 demo: 1.1
10:00 Blue Bloods
Viewers: 11.2 million, 18-49 demo: 1.5 

NBC
8:00 Grimm (Repeat)
Viewers: 2.8 million, 18-49 demo: 0.7
9:00 Grimm
Viewers: 5.3 million, 18-49 demo: 1.6
10:00 Dateline NBC
Viewers: 4.8 million, 18-49 demo: 1.3

FOX 
8:00 The X Factor (Repeat)
Viewers: 3.4 million, 18-49 demo: 1.2
9:00 Fringe
Viewers: 3.1 million, 18-49 demo: 1.1

On Friday night, CBS sprung a leak in its lineup which was way down from last fall. At its new time, CSI: NY started off the night hitting a series low. This could definitely be the final season for this long running drama. At 9pm, the series premiere of Made in Jersey was DOA with a terrible 1.1 demo as it could only manage to tie a repeat of ABC's Last Resort. By comparison, last year's failed A Gifted Man started its run at the tougher time of 8pm with a 1.4 demo. I wouldn't be surprised to see Undercover Boss back at 8pm and CSI: NY back at 9pm before November. At 10pm, Blue Bloods had a decent premiere but skewed way older than last year when it premiered with a 2.0 demo. Still, 11 million viewers on a Friday night at 10pm is nothing to worry about. Over on ABC, Shark Tank was down a tenth in viewers and the demo while 20/20 was down eight tenths in viewers and even in the demo.  

On NBC, the first new Friday episode of Grimm delivered the best demo of the night... at a mere 1.6. Friday is getting tougher and tougher for broadcast networks. At 10pm, Dateline NBC was up half a million viewers and three tenths in the demo. FOX had the season premiere of the final season of Fringe and it pulled numbers close to what it was doing last year and probably close to what it will do all the way up to its series finale. With numbers like these on Friday night, will ABC and NBC really want to try comedies?

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