Preliminary data says 20.6 million checked out
Laurence Fishburne on last night’s CSI, giving the show an 18 percent bump in viewers from last week and marking the first time since its September debut that the procedural attracted over 20 million watchers. (Despite being Thursday’s top show all season, the series had been in a ratings decline since early November).
CSI’s success bled over to its follow-up on CBS,
Eleventh Hour. Yesterday’s episode — which focused flesheating bacteria — hung on to 65 percent of
CSI’s crowd, nabbing 13.4 million viewers and scoring its highest numbers of the season. Earlier on the net,
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