Thursday's Ratings Rise -- But Not Much

Thursday night saw a slew of season finales and therefore an uptick in overall ratings for the night, which have fallen steadily since the writers' strike. Nevertheless, they remained well below their levels of a year ago. ABC's Ugly Betty may have won the 8:00 p.m. hour, but its total audience of 8.47 million was down by more than 2 million from the same week a year ago, CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation won the 9:00 hour with 17.73 million viewers, but even that number was down by 2.72 million from last year. The worst drop was recorded by ABC's Grey's Anatomy, which dropped to 15.18 million from 22.57 million a year ago.



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