Grey's Anatomy Pulls a Dead Denny; 30 Rock Sacked
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Thursday TV's Best Dead Denny Impersonator: ABC's Grey's Anatomy (13.7 million viewers, per Nielsen estimates), which got totally killed by Fox's college football championship game (26 million, from about 8-11 p.m.), but wasn't totally dead.
The Grey's Bad: The series was down about 1.5 million viewers from its last new episode. Also, it was beat—badly—by football in the 9 p.m. hour among adults 18-49.
The Grey's Good: On a night where nobody won anything unless you were on the field with Tim Tebow, the show stole the women's vote at 9 p.m., scoring demo wins among women 18-49, 18-34 and 25-54. (Teen girls sided with football.)
Thursday TV's Big Mystery: Was Private Practice's post-Grey's debut a success or not? On one hand, the ABC spinoff beat the other dramas at 10 p.m. in total viewers and in the 18-49 demo. On the other hand, its audience (9.1 million) wasn't that much bigger than the time slot's former occupant, Life on Mars (8.6 million). On the hand that actually counts, ABC boasted that Private Practice did a better job than its predecessor at holding onto—meaning, losing less of—Grey's audience.
Thursday TV's Other Big Mystery: Why did NBC lead into a new episode of 30 Rock (5.2 million) with a rerun of The Office (4.7 million)? 30 Rock's throwback, pre-Sarah Palin-era performance came complete with a fourth-place finish in the 18-49 demo.
Also-Rans: ABC's Ugly Betty (7.5 million) didn't do much at 8 p.m., but it did more than NBC's My Name Is Earl (5.5 million) and Kath & Kim (4.2 million).
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