RATINGS RECAP: 10/9/12

ABC
8:00 Dancing with the Stars Special
Viewers: 8.3 million, 18-49 demo: 1.3
9:00 Dancing with the Stars Results
Viewers: 13.3 million, 18-49 demo: 2.2
10:00 Private Practice
Viewers: 6.0 million, 18-49 demo: 1.6

CBS
8:00 NCIS
Viewers: 18.5 million, 18-49 demo: 3.4
9:00 NCIS: Los Angeles
Viewers: 15.2 million, 18-49 demo: 3.0
10:00 Vegas
Viewers: 11.8 million, 18-49 demo: 2.0

NBC
8:00 The Voice
Viewers: 12.2 million, 18-49 demo: 4.5
9:00 Go On
Viewers: 6.7 million, 18-49 demo: 2.6
9:30 The New Normal
Viewers: 4.9 million, 18-49 demo: 2.0
10:00 Parenthood
Viewers: 5.0 million, 18-49 demo: 2.0

FOX
8:00 Raising Hope
Viewers: 4.0 million, 18-49 demo: 1.8
8:30 Ben and Kate
Viewers: 3.2 million, 18-49 demo: 1.5
9:00 New Girl
Viewers: 4.9 million, 18-49 demo: 2.7
9:30 The Mindy Project
Viewers: 3.6 million, 18-49 demo: 1.9

News was good for NBC on Tuesday night. Night two of the battle rounds on The Voice were up big from last week's clip show and even up from the blind auditions two weeks ago. This is a great sign for the show as it enters a time where it has typically dropped and it is just killing everyone else on Mondays and Tuesdays in the demo. At 9pm, the sitcoms came back to previous levels after big dips last week as Go On was up nine tenths in viewers and half a demo point while The New Normal was up four tenths in viewers and three tenths in the demo. Those seem like great jumps but last week had such tremendous falls that they pretty much break even. At 10pm, Parenthood was up half a million viewers and a big four tenths in the demo for its best demo performance since last November. It also tied for first in the demo with Vegas. This is an impressive jump but it's off two of the next three weeks, can it sustain the momentum?

On FOX, Raising Hope started off the night up a tenth in viewers and the demo. To rise against a much stronger The Voice is a positive sign and a 1.8 isn't horrible for 8pm in this block. The worst showing came at 8:30pm where Ben and Kate was down a tenth in viewers and the demo. So it has a 1.5 demo and nearly a full season after Monday's announcement? Yikes. At 9pm, New Girl was down a tenth in viewers and the demo while The Mindy Project was down a tenth in viewers and even in the demo. To hold steady when New Girl was down a tenth is good but it's still only at a 1.9 demo. Yet, it has a full season so FOX is clearly going to be patient with it.

Over on CBS, NCIS started off the night down four tenths in viewers and three tenths in the demo. It is getting impacted by The Voice the way it used to by American Idol. At 9pm, NCIS: Los Angeles was up three tenths in viewers and down a tenth in the demo. At 10pm, Vegas was down three tenths in viewers and even in the demo. Staying even in the demo even with the NCIS shows down is a positive sign and Vegas needed one. On ABC, a Dancing with the Stars special did very little at 8pm while the results were up 1.3 million viewers and a tenth in the demo from last week. ABC must be regretting all these weeks of Dancing clip shows but the results edition officially moves to 8pm next week. At 10pm, Private Practice was dead even with last week's low numbers.