'Gifted Man' respectable in debut

Within the series premiere Friday, CBS' ''A Gifted Man'' matched up in the 18-49 demo performance of the year premiere of ''Medium'' inside the same 8 p.m. timeslot, but came greater than 50% more total audiences. The Interest finished first Friday in 18-49 and overall audiences, around the evening mixing season premieres and repeats of the. According to preliminary excellent from Nielsen, ''A Gifted Man'' (1.4/5 in 18-49, 9.3 million audiences overall), starring Patrick Wilson, showed up second in at 8 p.m. in 18-49 behind the summer season premiere of Fox's ''Kitchen Nightmares'' (1.6/6, 3.8 million) but greater than bending your competitors in overall audiences. ''Gifted'' stood a 2.9 rating among women 25-54. The 8 p.m. season premiere in the CW's ''Nikita'' (.6/2, 1.9 million), on its new evening, provided a demo rating that was under 50% of the series debut this past year on Thursdays, additionally to last year's ''Smallville'' within the same location. NBC, that have broadcast in-situation-you-missed-Them repeats of latest series ''Up All Night'' (.8/3, 3.2 million) and ''Whitney (.9/3, 3.millions of) at 8 p.m., did best Friday getting a 2-hour ''Dateline'' (2./6, 7.millions of) that assigned inside the demo at 9 p.m. and matched up up the summer season premiere of CBS' ''Blue Bloods'' (2./6, 11.8 million) at 10 p.m. ''Blue Bloods'' had the night's top overall audience together with a 3.7 rating in women 25-54. At 9 p.m., the summer season premiere of CBS' ''CSI: NY'' (1.8/6, 10.7 million) assigned people of Fox's ''Fringe'' (1.5/5, 3.5 million) as well as the CW's ''Supernatural'' (.8/2, 2. million), these falling missing year-ago performances. ABC ongoing to become steady Friday with repeats of ''Modern Family'' (1./4, 3.9 million) ''Revenge'' (1./3, 4.millions of) together with a brand new ''20/20'' (1./3, 3.3 million). Preliminary 18-49 earnings for your evening: CBS 1.7/6, NBC 1.6/5, Fox 1.6/5, ABC 1./3, CW .7/2. In general audiences: CBS 10.6 000 0000, NBC 5.8 million, ABC 3.8 million, Fox 3.7 million, CW 1.9 million. Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com