Grey’s Anatomy Tops First Week of New Season

BURBANK, September 27: ABC moving Grey’s Anatomy to the competitive Thursday 9 p.m. slot appears to
have paid off—the hit medical drama was the number one show of the first
week of the new U.S. network fall season, delivering 25.4 million viewers and a
9.0 rating.

Desperate Housewives
was the number two show for the week of September 18 to 24, with 24.1 million
viewers and an 8.5 rating. Rounding out the top ten were CSI (22.6 million), Dancing with the Stars (18.2 million), CSI: Miami (17.6 million), Without a Trace (17.6 million), Extreme Makeover: Home
Edition (17.5 million), Survivor: Cook Islands (17.4 million), Cold Case (16.3 million) and CSI: NY (16.1 million.)

The highest-rated new show of the season was ABC’s Brothers
& Sisters in the Sunday post-Desperate
Housewives slot with 15.7 million viewers
and a 5.5 rating, followed by CBS’s Shark with 14.7 million viewers and a 5.2 rating. Other strong performers
among the crop of new shows were NBC’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (13.4 million), ABC’s Six Degrees (12.6 million) and CBS’s Jericho (11.7 million).