Oh, Baby! That Was Some Private Practice Finale

Cliffhanger scores estimated 9.8 million viewers; Grey's Anatomy, CSI rule Thursday ratings

Private Practice's second-season cliffhanger wrung out 9.8 million viewers, up a little under 1 million from last week, and ruled the 10 p.m. hour among adults 18-49, per preliminary Nielsen estimates.

Elsewhere in Thursday's ratings:

• An old Criminal Minds (10.3 million) outdrew, on the whole, the all-new Private Practice, the downsized Southland (6.9 million) and the series it subbed for, the exiled Harper's Island.

• Same old, same old for Grey's Anatomy (13.9 million) and CSI (15.3 million)—Grey's was the night's most demographically desirable show; CSI was the night's most-watched show.

• With Grey's and CSI both bigger than last week, The Office (7.3 million), Hell's Kitchen (7 million) and Supernatural (3 million) did well to grow as well. 30 Rock (6 million) was down a touch. 

• At 8 p.m., Ugly Betty (6.8 million) was back, bigger than the comedies that had spelled it, but fourth among the big four networks in the demo.

• Survivor: Tocantins (11.7 million), Bones (8.8 million) and Smallville were all up from last week.

• Amy Poehler's Parks and Recreation (5.3 million) is mostly succeeding at not being Kath & Kim.