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The CBS network's premiere, hosted by Julie Chen, grabbed 7.7m in the 9pm hour, up 350k on last year's opener.
Expedition Impossible's 5.5m was enough to claim second place for ABC at 9pm, while a Glee rerun took 3.1m for Fox.
Meanwhile, NBC's repeats of The Office and 30 Rock nabbed 2.4m and 2m respectively.
So You Think You Can Dance picked up 5.4m for Fox, which finished in third place in the 8pm hour, after ABC's Wipeout entertained 6.6m, and catch-ups of Big Bang Theory and Rules of Engagement had 6.7m and 5.2m for CBS.
Classic Community (8pm) and Parks and Recreation (8.30pm) logged 2.3m and 2.2m, while a Vampire Diaries rerun managed 1.2m. Afterwards, Nikita interested 1.1m.
Elsewhere, The Mentalist pulled in 6.7m for CBS in the 10pm hour, while Rookie Blue fetched 5.7m for ABC and 2m watched NBC's Love Bites.
