Fox wins evening but 'Big Bang' is top show

Fox won the Thursday evening competition getting a 2-hour ''The X Factor'' while CBS felt good through getting the show with audiences and top 18-49 demo in ''The Large Bang Theory.''According to early estimations from Nielsen, ''The X Factor'' came a 3.8 rating/10 participate the 18-49 demo, with 11.2 million audiences tuning in. One additional sign: Furthermore, it rose inside the demo in each half an hour. However, the Simon Cowell-fueled singing competition reality skein shed nearly an incredible number of overall audiences from yesterday and isn't the giant many thought it may be just before the growing season began.CBS' rock-solid laffer ''The Large Bang Theory'' (4.4/13, 13.6m) lost some traction inside the demo and shed roughly an incredible number of audiences.As all systems will note, however, sports competition was keen Thursday. Many audiences certainly up-to-date in to the Detroit Tigers-NY Yankees playoff game that was being telecast on cabler The very best spinner's and needed away eyeballs from scripted fare.As upbeat as Eye professionals are in regards to the ongoing dominance of ''Big Bang,'' there's several angst when controling the disappointment of 8:30 lead-out ''How to become Gentleman'' (2.5/7, 7.8m). Kevin Dillon sitcom was lower 7% from yesterday and lost single.2 million audiences. Once the series is constantly shed audiences in the lead-in -- "Gentleman" dropped 5.8 million audiences from "Large Bang" -- network might want to re-think the timeslot. ''Person of Interest'' (2.5/6, 11.4m) was slightly lower but 10 o'clock procedural ''The Mentalist'' (2.7/7, 12.8m) really perked up a notch from the other day inside the demo, possibly because the baseball game had ended with this in time much of the united states.At ABC, ''Charlie's Angels'' wasn't heavenly. Femme-centric drama sank with a 1.2/4, with only 5.9 million audiences tuning in. That was reduced the 1.5/4, 7.1m from yesterday (which was reduced the 25% debut) since the show looks to become short-were living experiment. ''Angels'' was beaten by other competition in the 8 and 8:30 half-several hours and might be the following casualty among the broadcast nets.''Grey's Anatomy'' (3./8, 8.5m) appeared to become lower striking a collection low and didn't offer much support for ''Private Practice'' (2.2/6, 6.2m).NBC's ''Community'' (1.5/5, 3.3m) and ''Parks and Recreation'' (1.9/5, 4.1m) were only sufficiently good to conquer ''Charlie's Angels'' in addition to experienced some erosion. ''The Office'' (3.1/8, 5.7m) hit its least expensive mark in over six years while ''Whitney'' (2.3/6, 4.8m), the Peacock just gave an entire-season order, held over OK from the other day.Program boss Bob Greenblatt has many belief in ''Prime Suspect,'' but it has to accomplish a lot better than the 1.5/4, 4.9m it completed at 10 p.m. That was flat from yesterday inside the demo, minimizing in general audiences. Greenblatt will double-pump the show now, reairing it on at 10 p.m. Mondays , inside the former ''The Playboy Club'' slot , from a couple of days take more exposure.The CW offered ''The Vampire Diaries'' (1.2/3, 2.5m) and ''The Secret Circle'' (.8/2, 1.9m). Preliminary 18-49 earnings for your evening: Fox, 3.8/10 CBS, 2.9/8 ABC, 2.1/6 NBC, 2./5 Univision, 1.2/4 CW, 1./3.In general audiences: CBS, 11.6 000 0000 Fox, 11.2 million ABC, 6.8 million NBC, 4.6 000 0000 Univision, 3.3 million CW, 2.2 million. Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com