'Bang' large for CBS on Thursday

Facing atypical competition now, CBS comedy ''The Large Bang Theory'' ongoing to become Thursday's No. 1 program while matching its best demo rating since moving for the leadoff perfect the evening a minimum of last year. Fox's ''World Series,'' lower slightly from Wednesday's Game 1, figures to win the evening in many key groups. According to preliminary national estimations from Nielsen, ''The Large Bang Theory'' averaged a effective 4.9 rating/15 participate grownups 18-49 and 14.7 million audiences overall , up week to week and again ruling since the night's No. 1 program. It absolutely was then the summer season premiere of ''Rules of Engagement'' (3.7/10 in 18-49, 11.5 million audiences overall), which assigned its premiere-week average of last fall on Monday by about 20% and was good performance from the repeat ''Big Bang'' inside the 8:30 p.m. Thursday slot the other day both ''Rules'' and ''Bang'' accomplished good success from repeat comedy competition on NBC, and also the other change now was baseball looking for ''The X Factor'' on Fox. Carrying out a comedies, ''Person of Interest'' (2.7/7 in 18-49, 12.3 million audiences overall) was in line with its recent earnings, placing third in demos and leading all entertainment series inside the 9 o'clock hour among total audiences. ''The Mentalist'' closed the evening (2.5/7 in 18-49, 12.5 million audiences overall), matching last week's delivery and likely headed for just about any third-place 18-49 finish inside the excellent behind baseball and MTV's ''Jersey Shore'' season finale. Fox's coverage of Game 2 around the world Series, which saw the Texas Rangers rally inside the ninth inning for just about any 2-1 victory inside the St. Louis Cardinals, averaged a 3.7 rating/10 participate grownups 18-49 and 12.9 million audiences overall round the net's stations from 8 to 11. For the way Game 1 converted inside the excellent, Thursday's Game 2 (which ended around 11:15 p.m. ET) should can be found in around 14 million audiences, enough to supply Fox a victory for your evening in 18-49, 25-54 and total audiences. The Fall Classic, tied at one game each, is becoming guaranteed of stretching through no less than Monday's Game 5. At ABC, the canceled ''Charlie's Angels'' (1.2/4 in 18-49, 5.6 000 0000 audiences overall) was lower a tick week to week to fit its season low, and from 9 to 11 p.m., ''Grey's Anatomy'' (3.5/9 in 18-49, 9.4 million audiences overall) and ''Private Practice'' (2.4/6 in 18-49, 6.6 000 0000 audiences overall) completed on componen with week's levels. ''Grey's'' will again function as night's No. 1 drama in 18-49. NBC created low amounts (sixth place among the tv producers in 18-49) with repeats of the comedies ''Community'' (.9/3 in 18-49, 2.5 million audiences overall), ''Parks and Recreation'' (1.1/3 in 18-49, 2.5 million audiences overall), ''The Office'' (1.5/4 in 18-49, 9.4 million audiences overall) and ''Whitney'' (1.1/3 in 18-49, 9.3 million audiences overall) and drama ''Prime Suspect'' (.8/2 in 18-49, 2.8 million audiences overall). At CW, ''The Vampire Diaries'' (1.3/4 in 18-49, 2.9 million audiences overall) was in line with the other day, and 9 p.m. rookie ''The Secret Circle'' (.9/2 in 18-49, 2.millions of audiences overall) was up in lots of groups. Preliminary 18-49 earnings for your evening: Fox, 3.7/10 CBS, 3.2/9 ABC, 2.4/6 Univision, 1.5/4 CW, 1.1/3 NBC, 1./3. In general audiences: Fox, 12.9 million CBS, 12.2 million ABC, 7.2 million Univision, 3.3 million NBC, 2.7 million CW, 2.5 million. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com