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Two Minds are meliorate than one?

The execute of Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior amygdaliform up 12.9 meg audience in prime time's test distance Wednesday night, building slightly on the 12.8 meg grouping who watched Criminal Minds at 9/8c, according to preliminary Nielsen figures.

The newborn show attracted the maximal audience CBS has gotten in that instance interval in more than a year.

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The example Minds was up against the ordinal distance of American Idol, which drew nearly 25 meg people.

In its prototypal hour, Idol had 20.7 meg watching — farther outpacing the entry of Survivor: Redemption Island, which snagged 11.2 million, its lowest-rated execute ever. Its judgement among 18-to-49-year-olds was downbound 29 proportionality from terminal spring's premiere.

Also at 8/7c, ABC's The Middle suffered lured nearly 8 meg audience (down from 8.8 meg a hebdomad earlier), while Part 1 of Minute to Win It got nearly 3.8 meg (down from 4.8 million) on NBC, and 1.3 meg (down from 1.6 million) tuned into a Nikita send on the CW. Better With You, at 8:30/7:30, managed about 5.9 million

Read more of today's newsAt 9:30/8:30c, a lot of grouping un-friended Matthew Perry's Mr. Sunshine, as it forfeited more than a ordinal of its execute audience — at just 7 meg viewers. Mr. Sunshine's lead-in, Modern Family, pulled in 10.5 meg audience — downbound from 13.1 million.

Also in prime time's ordinal hour, the ordinal conception of Minute to Win It won 3.4 meg viewers, and a send of The Vampire Diaries got 794,000.

At 10, NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit scored nearly 7.3 meg viewers, and ABC's Off the Map plummeted to 4.3 meg — and a program low 1.5 demo rating, downbound 21 proportionality from the previous week.