'CSI: New York' Ratings Bounce Back

Two weeks after a Revelations-fueled Law & Order drove CSI: New York to its lowest first-run ratings yet, Wednesday's "Supply and Demand" managed to claw back to 14.4 million viewers.

Since its 15-million-viewer premiere two weeks ago, the NBC miniseries Revelations has already lost 40% of its audience, to end up with 9 million viewers on Wednesday, according to Variety. Ratings erosion had already set in the first week after the show launched, but was undoubtedly helped by CBS's decision to replace its 9:00pm sitcom block with a special repeat of CSI's "Who Shot Sherlock?" That episode atttracted 11.6 million viewers, which proved a good lead-in for "Supply and Demand."

CSI: New York was further helped by the fact that Law & Order aired a rerun, and thus managed to attract only 9.5 million viewers. ABC's Eyes aired a new episode, but didn't manage to win the favour of more than 6.7 million people. New York's ratings were its highest in quite a few weeks, although the show didn't get close to the 17.3 million people that "Tanglewood" scored in late January.

The other new CSI episode to air last week was CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's "Committed" on Thursday. Reuters reported that the episode probably attracted 23.4 million viewers, easily beating the 14.5 million that tuned in for ER. However, these numbers could still change by the time the final ratings come in next week, as the fact that the episode aired in different timeslots on the East and West Coast may have muddled up the first preliminary ratings. President Bush's press conference, which was the reason for the sudden timeslot switch, was watched by a total of 32.7 million people, of whom 11.8 million tuned in for CBS's coverage of the event.

On Monday, CBS aired a repeat of CSI: Miami's "Shootout." The rerun was watched by 15.5 million people, while 14.2 million people instead watched a new episode of NBC's Medium. In the important adults 18-49 demographic, Medium actually managed to beat Miami, while for the overall night, NBC also came out on top.

More information can be found in the full ratings reports for Monday and WEdnesday (from Variety), and the full report for Thursday (from Reuters and the Hollywood Reporter).

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