CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

October
4
"Private Practice," "Bionic Woman" are TiVo's most wanted

PrivpracticetivoWhat'er the only two new shows to crack TiVo's top 50 Season Pass (no relation) rankings?

Surprise, surprise: "Private Practice" and "Bionic Woman." ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" spinoff "Practice" (pictured left) ranks No. 18 on TiVo's ranking of most its most popular Season Pass settings, in which the whiz-bang DVR grabs all original segs of a designated series."Bionic" (pictured below) ranks No. 43 on the list.

TiVo's Season Pass top 10, not surprisingly, closely corresponds to the Nielsen top 10: "Grey's Anatomy," "Desperate Housewives," "House," "Lost," "CSI," "Heroes," "American Idol," "24," "The Office" and "CSI: Miami." Pretty sad to see only one comedy on the list; god bless "The Office."

A little surprising to see ABC's big buzz show "Pushing Daisies" not make the top 100, particularly after Bionicisaiah last night's solid preem. NBC's "Journeyman" ranks head-scratchingly high at No. 54, followed by ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money" (No. 55); Fox's "Back to You" (No. 65); CBS' "Cane" (No. 70); NBC's "Chuck" (No. 75); PBS' Ken Burns mini "The War" (No. 76); CBS' "Kid Nation" (No. 89); and ABC's "Big Shots" (No. 95).

Last fall the only newcomer to crack the top 50 was NBC's "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," and we all know what happened there...

--Cynthia Littleton

September
28
Thursday premieres: Big night, big shows and "Big Shots"

BigshotspreemThursday was a big night of big shows and a not-so-big debut for ABC's "Big Shots." (pictured left)

ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" and CBS' "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" returned to their familiar duel positions at 9 p.m., with "Grey's" leading the night in adults 18-49 while "CSI" had total-viewer tonnage. Both "Grey's" and "CSI" flexed their muscles by spiking from their 8 p.m. lead-ins.

"Grey's" (pictured below left) finished out with 20.5 million viewers and 8.7 rating/21 share in 18-49. "CSI" (pictured below right) brought in 24.9 million viewers and 8.0/19 in the key demo, per prelim Nielsens.

"Survivor: China" was soft, by the show's past standard, but still dominated in the 8 p.m. hour with 14.2 Csipreem_2 million viewers and 4.6/13 in 18-49. ABC's "Ugly Betty" (11 million, 3.8/11) was a solid No. 2 in the hour, posting its best figures since February.

At 10 p.m., "Big Shots" (inevitably) slid from its "Grey's" lead-in to open with 11.6 million viewers and 4.7/13 in 18-49. The return of CBS' "Without a Trace" (16.7 million, 4.8/13)  to its longtime home adjacent to "CSI" did wonders for that show, allowing it to squeak past the "Big Shots" preem by the slimmest of margins in 18-49.

Click here for the lowdown on the entire night from Variety's Rick Kissell.

--Cynthia Littleton

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