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A quiet night, but there was some stirrings of change thanks to ABC.
ABC: EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION made its Friday debut (it will ultimately be joined by Shark Tank), and while the 8PM episode didn’t do much, the show zoomed forward at 9PM to come within 0.1 of CSI NY. That was followed by a promotable 20/20 (interview with a Bernie Madoff relative), which made the most of its lead-in to take the hour.
CBS: Despite the ABC onslaught, their numbers remained very solid (although in A GIFTED MAN‘s case, at a low level), with nothing moving more than 0.1 from last week.
NBC: Next week, the network will make its real Friday push with the debuts of CHUCK and GRIMM. 8PM remained low-rated reruns, but DATELINE was bruised by the ABC shows, down by a third from last week. (One sidelight to NBC’s decision to push the Grimm premiere by a week is that critics are by and large ignoring the delay and reviewing the show this weekend, partly because it ties in so well with their reviews of Sunday’s similarly-themed Once Upon A Time. The reviews have been mixed, so this may not end up meaning much, but as a result, when Grimm really does arrive next week, comparatively few reviews will run in the media to greet it.)
FOX: KITCHEN NIGHTMARES won its hour steadily, and the network ran a repeat of FRINGE at 9PM.
CW: NIKITA was up, SUPERNATURAL was down, but in both cases by only 0.1, so hard to make any judgments.
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