ABC wins night with 'Grey's Anatomy'
NBC's 'Office' wedding also strong in adult demo
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The ballyhooed wedding of the Jim and Pam characters in an hourlong episode of NBC's "The Office" came in second for the night in the demo.
Thursday numbers figure to be affected (and further adjusted) by the ratings from TBS' broadcasts of major-league baseball playoff games, which included a Cardinals-Dodgers nailbiter ending after 9 p.m. ET and the Red Sox-Angels contest starting at roughly the same time. (Wednesday's Yankees-Twins game drew 6.61 million viewers.)
CBS' "Survivor" (3.4 rating, 10 share in 18-49, 11.7 million viewers overall) won the 8 p.m. hour Thursday in both 18-49 and viewers overall. ABC's FlashForward (3.0/9, 9.0 million) and Fox's Bones (2.8/8, 9.9 million) vied for silver medal honors.
NBC's "Community" (2.1/6, 5.0 million) made its debut in the 8 p.m. timeslot and improved slightly on the previous week's effort by "Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday," but suffered from no longer having a leadin from "The Office." "Community" shed 28% of its rating and 13% of its overall audience from its 9:30 p.m. airing last week.
"Parks and Recreation" (2.2/6, 5.0 million) built on its leadin for the fourth straight week and achieved a season high, while the CW's "The Vampire Diaries" (1.7/5, 3.5 million) held steady.
At 9 p.m., "Grey's Anatomy" (5.3/13, 13.8 million) not only won the hour for ABC, it nearly topped CBS' "CSI" (3.4/9, 14.6 million) in overall viewers. "The Office" (4.5/12, 9.1 million) had its top showing in overall viewers in nearly a year.
"Fringe" (2.1/5, 6.0 million) remained in its usual ratings neighborhood for Fox on Thursday, followed by the CW's "Supernatural" (1.1/3, 2.5 million).
ABC's "Private Practice" (3.7/10, 9.5 million), CBS' "The Mentalist" (3.2/9, 14.2 million) and NBC's "The Jay Leno Show (1.7/5, 4.8 million) rounded out the night at 10 p.m.
Preliminary 18-49 averages for the night: ABC 4.0/11, CBS 3.3/9, NBC 2.8/8, Fox 2.5/7, CW 1.4/4, Univision 1.2/3.
In total viewers: CBS 13.5 million, ABC 10.8 million, Fox 8.0 million, NBC 6.3 million, Univision 3.2 million, CW 3.0 million.
