TV Ratings Report: Awake Premiere Slumbers

It really is all relative for NBC. The series premiere of Awake drew only 6.2 million viewers last night, but the struggling network points out this is the best non-sport rating in its 10 p.m. Thursday time slot since 5/19/11. So there's that...

8 p.m.
American Idol: 17.8 million viewers
The Big Bang Theory: 11.1 million/Rob: 9 million
Wipeout rerun: 4.5 million
30 Rock: 3.8 million/Parks and Recreation: 3.8 million
The Vampire Diaries rerun: 1.1 million

9 p.m.
Person of Interest rerun: 9.5 million
Grey's Anatomy rerun: 3.4 million
American Idol: 18.7 million
The Office: 5 million/Up All Night: 3.48 million
Supernatural rerun: 952,000

10 p.m.
The Mentalist rerun: 8.9 million
Awake: 6.2 million
Jimmy Kimmel Live rerun: 3 million