It was not a good debut for CHAOS on CBS. It was the lowest premiere of this season. That’s bad. The rest of the CBS schedule was down though not too much. ABC was flat and The CW was in reruns once again. On NBC, Dateline took a big dive.

8pm
CHAOS
– 6.525 million viewers
– 4.2/8 HH
– 1.1/4 A18-49 (new)

Who Do You Think You Are?
– 6.070 million viewers
– 4.1/7 HH
– 1.3/5 A18-49 (0%)

Shark Tank
– 4.874 million viewers
– 3.0/5 HH
– 1.3/5 A18-49 (+8.3%)

Kitchen Nightmares (r)
– 2.873 million viewers
– 1.9/3 HH
– 1.2/4 A18-49

Smallville (r)
– 1.212 million viewers
– 0.8/1 HH
– 0.5/2 A18-49
– 0.4/2 A18-34
– 0.3/1 W18-34

9pm
CSI: NY
– 10.354 million viewers
– 6.5/11 HH
– 1.8/6 A18-49 (-5.3%)

Dateline (120 min)
– 5.959 million viewers
– 4.1/7 HH
– 1.3/4 A18-49 (-27.8%)

20/20 (120 min)
– 5.649 million viewers
– 3.7/6 HH
– 1.5/5 A18-49 (+7.1%)

Fringe (r)
– 1.921 million viewers
– 1.2/2 HH
– 0.6/2 A18-49

Supernatural (r)
– 1.340 million viewers
– 0.8/1 HH
– 0.5/2 A18-49
– 0.5/2 A18-34
– 0.4/1 W18-34

10pm
Blue Bloods
– 10.915 million viewers
– 7.0/12 HH
– 1.7/5 A18-49 (0%)

Raw ratings data copyright Nielsen, courtesy Travis Yanan.

Image courtesy CBS.