Nice start for ABC's 'Suburgatory'

ABC comedy ''Suburgatory'' opened up to get affordable amounts Wednesday evening, building on its lead-in from ''The Middle'' and ultizing NBC's comedy weakness in the timeframe with ''Free Agents.'' Fox and it is two-hour ''The X Factor'' won the evening among teenagers, while CBS vet ''CSI'' ruled Wednesday's closing hour.All the nets, meanwhile, likely lost some male audiences , particularly in marketplaces like NY, Boston and Atlanta , to coverage from the tense final evening of baseball's regular season on ESPN and Major league baseball Network.Fox won the evening among teenagers, based on preliminary national estimations from Nielsen, with ''The X Factor'' calculating a 3.9 rating/11 be part of grown ups 18-49 and drawing 11.5 million audiences overall. Though lower some from the week-ago premiere, ''X'' won three of their four half-hrs within the demo coupled with its best showing at 9:30 when ABC's ''Modern Family'' wrapped. It had been also up a lot more than 30% versus. the 2 hrs of ''Hell's Kitchen'' for Fox on a single evening last year.For ABC, "The CenterInch began the evening having a 2.6/8 in 18-49 and 8.six million audiences overall, and new comedy "Suburgatory" adopted having a 3.3/9 within the demo and 9.8 million total audiences -- the very best showing having a regular comedy within the timeslot for ABC in nearly six years last season, "Better Along With YouInch consistently dipped from the "Middle" lead-in, so any growth at 8:30 is an optimistic for ABC. The internet then increased as always at 9 p.m. with "Modern Family" (5.6/14 in 18-49, 13.two million audiences overall) -- lower from the series levels from the previous week but up a lot more than 20% year upon year. And also at 9:30, the 2nd-season premiere of "Happy Being" (series-high 3.2/8 in 18-49, 7.4 million audiences overall) delivered substantially from the lead-in, but nonetheless was up versus. "Cougar Town" last year, and also the internet will aspire to see its retention of "Modern Family" improve because the season progresses.At 10 o'clock, ABC's new cleaning soap ''Revenge'' were built with a solid second week (2.7/7 in 18-49, 8.six million audiences overall), lower 18% from the premiere if this were built with a considerably more powerful lead-in thanks to ''Modern Family'' but nonetheless a lot more than double the amount rating of the year-ago timeslot weakling ''The Whole Truth.'' ''Revenge'' placed second to CBS vet ''CSI'' (3./8 in 18-49, 11.six million audiences overall), which dipped only slightly and again didn't have problem topping its crime drama competition on NBC, ''Law and Order: Special Sufferers Unit'' (2./5 in 18-49, 7.a million audiences overall).Also for CBS, ''Survivor'' (3.1/9 in 18-49, 10.5 million audiences overall) went second in 18-49 for that 8 o'clock hour, lower a tick from a week ago and off about 10% year upon year. The sturdy ''Criminal Minds'' adopted at 9 (3.6/9 in 18-49, 12.six million audiences overall), lower from the strong season opener but on componen with this past year. Earlier at night at NBC, ''Up All Night'' (2.1/6 in 18-49, 5.3 million audiences overall), though lower from the timeslot premiere of a week ago, again would be a nice improvement over last year's ''Undercovers.'' Exactly the same can not be stated for that net's other new Wednesday half-hour, ''Free Agents'' (1./3 in 18-49, 3.a million audiences overall), or its 9 p.m. drama ''Harry's Law'' (1.2/3 in 18-49, 7.4 million audiences overall), using the latter not supplying a lead-set for ''SVU.''At CW, ''Hater'' (.6/2 in 18-49, 1.4 million audiences overall) and ''America's Next Top Model'' (.8/2 in 18-49, 1.7 million audiences overall) both rebounded a little using their poor showings of a week ago. ''Hater,'' now featuring Kim Kardashian, came its biggest overall audience in the three airings up to now.Preliminary 18-49 earnings for that evening: Fox, 3.9/11 ABC and CBS, 3.3/9 Univision, 1.8/5 NBC, 1.6/4 CW, .7/2.As a whole audiences: CBS, 11.six million Fox, 11.5 million ABC, 9.3 million NBC, 6.3 million Univision, 4.a million CW, 1.six million. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com