'L&O', 'Alias' Put 'New York' In Third

See Also: 'Tri-Borough' Episode Guide

More people chose to watch an action show about a spy with parental issues than CSI: New York on Wednesday night.

The season premiere of ABC's Alias beat the Big Apple spin-off to claim number one position in the 10:00 p.m. hour, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Sydney Bristow and company scored a viewership of 14.4 million viewers, compared to the 12.7 million who watched "Tri-Borough". To add insult to injury, rival NBC procedural drama series Law & Order also beat CSI: New York, attracting an audience of 14.2 million viewers.

CSI: New York achieved an 8.2 overnight rating / 13 share, Mediaweek reported. This means that approximately 8.2% of American households with television sets were watching "Tri-Borough", while the episode was viewed by 13% of households watching television at 10:00 p.m. In the adults 18-49 demographic, New York scored a 4.4/11, putting it in third place again behind Law & Order (4.5/11) and Alias (6.2/15). Propelled by the success of Alias and lead-in Lost, ABC successfully won the night with CBS in second.

There was a reveral of fortune on Thursday night, with almost 29 million viewers tuning in to find out "Who Shot Sherlock?". CSI won both the 9:00 p.m. timeslot and was the most-watched program for the evening, scoring an overnight rating of 19.5/28. Its success was followed up by Without a Trace, which scored its best ever overnight ratings, attracting 23.75 million viewers. CBS easily won the night with an average audience of 20.72 million, 10 million more than its nearest rival, NBC.

The original reports can be found here and here at Yahoo! News and at Mediaweek.

Discuss this news item at Talk CSI!
 Add CSI Files RSS feed to your news reader or My Yahoo!
Also a Desperate Housewives fan? Then visit GetDesperate.com!