Thursday Night Ratings: Heroes Reborn Debuts Strong, Shonda Rhimes Still Wins

Three things in life are certain: Death, Taxes, and Shonda Rhimes winning Thursday night [...]

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Three things in life are certain: Death, Taxes, and Shonda Rhimes winning Thursday night ratings. Well, when it comes to original programming, anyway; Rhimes definitely stayed on top with her trio of Thursday night shows on ABC, with ten million plus viewers for Scandal, and a drop for How to Get Away With Murder that still kept it at 8.4 million viewers and a 2.6 rating.

Heroes Reborn, meanwhile, debuted at 6 million viewers and a 1.9 rating for the two-hour premiere, an increase in viewers from the last season finale in February 2010, and dead on with that fourth and previously final season's debut. It's not the 14.3 million viewers that season 1 had at its beginning, but NBC will still likely consider it a win.

The Player, a new action drama co-starring Wesley Snipes, dropped about a million viewers and .7 of rating for the ten o'clock hour.

Thursday Night Football won the night overall with the NY Giants' first win of the season at 12.9 million viewers and a 4.3 rating, giving CBS an easy victory in their shared broadcast with the cable NFL Network. Fox was content re-running the Scream Queens two hour premiere, with a solid (for a rerun) 2.1 million and .7 rating.

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