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RATINGS RECAP: 10/24/12

ABC
8:00 The Middle
Viewers: 8.8 million, 18-49 demo: 2.6
8:30 The Neighbors
Viewers: 7.0 million, 18-49 demo: 2.0
9:00 Modern Family
Viewers: 12.5 million, 18-49 demo: 4.9
9:30 Suburgatory
Viewers: 7.4 million, 18-49 demo: 2.7
10:00 Nashville
Viewers: 6.5 million, 18-49 demo: 2.0

CBS
8:00 Survivor
Viewers: 10.2 million, 18-49 demo: 2.8
9:00 Criminal Minds
Viewers: 11.6 million, 18-49 demo: 3.1
10:00 CSI
Viewers: 10.0 million, 18-49 demo: 2.4

NBC
8:00 Animal Practice
Viewers: 3.7 million, 18-49 demo: 1.2
8:30 Guys with Kids
Viewers: 3.8 million, 18-49 demo: 1.4
9:00 Law & Order: SVU
Viewers: 6.8 million, 18-49 demo: 1.9
10:00 Chicago Fire
Viewers: 6.4 million, 18-49 demo: 1.8

FOX 
8:00 MLB World Series Game 1
Viewers: 12.2 million, 18-49 demo: 3.6

On Wednesday night, ABC was mostly up with its lineup of Halloween themed sitcoms and Nashville. At 8pm, The Middle was up four tenths in viewers and a tenth in the demo for its best numbers since the season premiere. At 8:30pm, The Neighbors was up half a million viewers and a tenth in the demo. This show is holding better than anticipated though it's not as compatible with The Middle as Suburgatory was. At 9pm, Modern Family was up two tenths in viewers and the demo. The Halloween episodes for this show have spiked more in the past but this is still a good uptick as it will fight again with The Big Bang Theory for being the top demo draw of the week. At 9:30pm, Suburgatory was down a tenth in viewers and the demo from its season premiere last week. This is one of the bigger disappointments this fall as it's not holding on to the Modern Family audience than the seemingly less compatible Cougar Town and Happy Endings did. I thought this show would be doing much better in this slot. At 10pm, Nashville stabilized after last week's second week plummet. It was down two tenths in viewers and even in the demo which has to be a sigh of relief for ABC. 

On NBC, the cancelled Animal Practice was down two tenths in viewers but even in the demo. It's too little, too late for this show though. At 8:30pm, Guys with Kids was down six tenths in viewers but even in the demo for the third week in a row. At 9pm, the 300th episode of Law & Order: SVU was up half a million viewers and three tenths in the demo. Congrats to this show for reaching #300 but it's well past its prime and probably should call it a day soon. Good news followed at 10pm where Chicago Fire recovered half a million viewers and three tenths in the demo as well from  last week's second week drop. This is a promising sign for a show that NBC would love to groom as a successor to SVU.  

CBS was mostly steady with its reliable lineup. Survivor and Criminal Minds were both down two tenths in viewers and even in the demo from their performances last week. At 10pm, CSI was down six tenths in viewers and up a tenth in the demo. FOX aired Game 1 of the World Series but a less intriguing matchup was down six tenths in viewers from last year's Game 1.
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