CBS comes to weekly victory

A powerful perf from Blue Bloods increased CBS.The greatest nfl and college football game in 5 years and also the across-the-board strength of their entertainment selection lifted CBS atop the primetime rankings pack a week ago. Answer to the Eye's victory were strong perfs by a number of its core veterinarians, as Monday's "2 . 5 Males," Tuesday's "NCIS," Thursday's "The Large Bang Theory" and Friday's "Blue Bloods" compiled the very best demo scores for just about any series on their own particular nights. And Wednesday leadoff hitter "Survivor" is constantly on the thrive in the 23rd edition, joining "Large Bang" and "Blue Bloods" in striking season levels a week ago. "Blue Bloods" particularly would be a standout, because the Tom Selleck-fronted family cop drama drenched its best regular 18-49 score (2.1 rating/6 share) since its series premiere in September 2010, and won its hour by 5 shares in grown ups 25-54. As well as in total audiences, its 12.73 million would be a bigger crowd than updated set for basically among last week's scripted series airing on ABC, NBC and Fox. Overall for that week of March. 31-November. 6, Nielsen estimations that CBS finished on the top among grown ups 18-49 having a 3.4 rating/9 share, then Fox (3./8), NBC (2.4/7), ABC (2.2/6), Univision (1.4/4) and ESPN (1./3). The Attention also lashed your competition both in grown ups 5-54 (4.4/11) and total audiences (13 million). For that season, CBS is tied with Fox for that 18-49 lead and it is the outright leader in 25-54 and total audiences. Fox continues to be greatest gainer, up 15% or even more in most groups. CBS padded its average a week ago with Saturday's special primetime nfl and college football game between Southeastern Conference rivals LSU and Alabama. The game between your country's top-ranked teams averaged an enormous 7.2/21 in grown ups 18-49 and 20.01 million audiences overall -- the biggest aud for any regular-season college game since Michigan and Ohio Condition came 21 million on ABC in 2006. The Eye's most popular new show is Monday half-hour "2 Broke Women" (4.3/12, 10.97m), which again a week ago offered like a good bridge between "The Way I Met Your Mother" (4.2/13, 10.49m) and "2 . 5 Males" (4.7/12, 13.90m). "NCIS" was Tuesday's No. 1 show (3.9/11, 19.71m), and something evening later "Survivor" (3.6/10 in 18-49, 11.95m) published its best scores since last December. "The Large Bang Theory" accomplished its greatest regular Thursday amounts since moving towards the evening 14 several weeks ago (5.4/16, 15.98m), and lead-out "Rules of Engagement" (3.7/10, 11.81m) published its best Thursday rankings up to now. Elsewhere a week ago, Fox was paced by Wednesday's winning "The X Factor" (4./11, 11.76m), as well as on Thursday the "X Factor" results show (3.7/11, 11.64m) brought into good scores for that season preem of "Bones" (3.3/8, 10.00m).The net's Tuesday hits "Glee" (3./8, 7.47m) and "New Girl" (3.6/9, 7.42m) came back from the three-week break with season lows, although the latter still brought its timeslot in 18-49. ABC had an execllent Wednesday, with "Modern Family" (5.7/15, 13.37m) the week's No. 1 scripted show in demos and 10 p.m. rookie drama "Revenge" (3./8, 8.58m) posting best-since-premiere scores and leading its hour in 18-49. Also ongoing to thrill is Sunday drama "Not so long ago" (3.8/9, 11.45m), which maintained almost all of its prior audience in week three, and Thursday vet "Grey's Anatomy" (3.6/9, 9.52m) was that night's No. 1 drama in demos. NBC was brought around the series side by Thursday comedy "WorkInch (3.2/8, 6.15m), while Friday drama "Grimm" (1.8/6, 6.01m) was lower 14% from the potent premiere however was the very best entertainment series in the hour among grown ups 18-49. Its top show remains "Sunday Evening Football" (8.8/22 in 18-49, 22.12m), as last week's Baltimore-Pittsburgh game was the week's No. 1 primetime program. Not too hot was the Monday debut of newsmag "Rock Center" (1./3, 4.14m). In cable, the very best entertainment series among grown ups 18-49 were AMC's "The Walking Dead" (3.4/8, 6.29m), FX's "Sons of Anarchy" (1.9/5, 3.63m), Comedy Central's "Tosh." (1.9/5, 3.25m) and AMC's new "Hell on Wheels" (1.9/5, 4.36m). Other standouts incorporated Discovery's "Gold Hurry" (1.6/5 in 18-49, 3.85m), which brought all television because of its Friday 9 p.m. hour in grown ups 18-34 (1.5/5) and key male demos Bravo's "Real Average women of Atlanta" were built with a good showing Sunday (1.5/4, 2.90m) and USA's original movie "John Sandford's Certain Prey," starring Mark Harmon, compiled 5.13 million audiences Sunday. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com