Thursday Night Ratings: THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, PARENTHOOD, SCANDAL Up

Nina Dobrev stars in THE VAMPIRE DIARIES. Photo Credit: The CW

The fast national overnight ratings are in for Thursday, October 17. Check out a roundup of ratings reports below:

From The CW:
Last night, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES beat both ABC and NBC in the hour in A18-34, W18-34, and A18-49.

It was TVD's most watched episode (2.84M) since February (2/21/13), and its best A18-49 rating since March (3/21).

Week to week, TVD was up 33% in total viewers, 18% in A18-34 (1.3/5), 30% in A18-49 and 6% in W18-34 (1.8/6).

The series premiere of REIGN gave The CW its second best performance in the Thursday 9-10pm time period in a year in total viewers (2M), W18-34 (1.0/3) and A18-49 (0.8/2) (10/11/12, the series premiere of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, which aired opposite the Vice Presidential Debate on the other broadcast networks), and since Nov. 2012 in A18-34 (0.7/2), behind only the special airing of THE ORIGINALS in the time period.

Thursday Night Ratings: SCANDAL Premieres With Series Highs In Total Viewers and Adults 18-49

Photo Credit: ABC

ABC’s Scandal opened its 3rd season at series highs in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49. Check out a roundup of ratings reports below for Thursday, October 3rd.

From ABC:
ABC Thursday Prime (8-11 p.m. – 8.5 million and 2.8/8 in AD18-49): Featuring a SCANDAL recap special, GREY'S ANATOMY and the 3rd season premiere of SCANDAL (opened at series highs), ABC ran neck-and-neck with CBS’ all-original lineup for #1 Adults 18-49 (2.8/8 vs. 2.9/9), while defeating originals on Fox by 56% (1.8/5) and on NBC by 75% (1.6/5). The Net was up 8% over the year-ago night in Adults 18-49 (2.6/7 on 10/4/12), delivering its strongest non-sports Thursday since the beginning of November – since 11/01/12.

Thursday Night Ratings: THE CRAZY ONES Premieres Big; GLEE, PARENTHOOD & GREY'S ANATOMY Have Lowest Rated Premieres Ever

Sydney Roberts (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Simon Roberts (Robin Williams),
Andrew Keaneally (Hamish Linklater), Lauren Slotsky (Amanda Setton)
and Zach Cropper (James Wolk) are setting the advertising world on fire
on the series premiere of THE CRAZY ONES. Photo Credit:
Cliff Lipson/CBS

CBS claimed a huge victory as the Thursday overnight Nielsen ratings came in. Check out a roundup of reports below.

From CBS:
THE CRAZY ONES, featuring the return of Robin Williams to network television, premiered to 15.61 million viewers, making it the season's #1 new program, according to Nielsen preliminary live plus same day ratings for Thursday, Sept. 26.

The series premiere of THE CRAZY ONES was first in viewers (15.61m), adults 25-54 (5.4/13) and adults 18-49 (4.0/11). CBS posted its best adults 25-54 delivery in the 9:00-9:30 time slot since March 12, 2009 and its best adults 18-49 delivery since Nov. 12, 2009.