CBS took top spot as usual on Friday night with new episodes of A Gifted Man (8.39 million viewers, A18-49: 1.2), CSI: NY (9.55 million viewers, A18-49: 1.6), and a season high performance, Blue Bloods (12.56 million viewers, A18-49: 2.1).
Fox moved up to second place this week with new episodes of Kitchen Nightmares (3.70 million viewers, A18-49: 1.5), and Fringe (3.28 million viewers, A18-49: 1.3).
NBC finished in third place this week with week 2 of its Friday night line-up of Chuck (3.08 million viewers, A18-49: 0.8), Grimm (5.92 million viewers, A18-49: 1.8) – down 14% from its series premiere last week, and Dateline NBC (4.14 million viewers, A18-49: 1.2).
ABC had to settle for a fourth place finish with new episodes of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (4.86 million viewers, A18-49: 1.2), another Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (5.40 million viewers, A18-49: 1.4) and 20/20 (4.87 million viewers, A18-49: 1.1).
New episodes of Nikita (1.80 million viewers, A18-49: 0.6) and Supernatural (1.76 million viewers, A18-49: 0.7) ended things for the night of The CW.