Ratings: Modern Family wins Wednesday

Modern family was the highest-rated show on Wednesday. Criminal Minds was the most-watched and tied with Survivor: Nicaragua for second in the ratings.

From TVbytheNumbers:

Modern Family got off to a hot start for ABC with series highs in the age demographics and total viewers and its 5.0 adults 18-49 rating was tops for the night.

Perhaps my love of Lost motivated me to say the debut of JJ Abrams Undercovers was middling in the headline, its 2.0 rating is a disappointing start made worse by being down 13% from last year’s premiere of Mercy.

Survivor was flat vs. its premiere last week, a good sign and a big improvement in the Wednesday 8pm hour versus last year’s comedy block. Criminal Minds was down 9% versus last year premiere, but to have a 4.0 and decreases that are in the realm of standard broadcast network ratings erosion is a good sign, not to mention CM was number one in total viewers for the night for those who care about that sort of thing.

Source TVbytheNumbers