'Gifted Man' respectable in debut

In the series premiere Friday, CBS' ''A Gifted Man'' matched up the 18-49 demo performance of year premiere of ''Medium'' within the same 8 p.m. timeslot, but came a lot more than 50% more total audiences. The Attention finished first Friday both in 18-49 and overall audiences, on the evening mixing season premieres and repeats of the identical. Based on preliminary excellent from Nielsen, ''A Gifted Man'' (1.4/5 in 18-49, 9.3 million audiences overall), starring Patrick Wilson, arrived second in at 8 p.m. in 18-49 behind the growing season premiere of Fox's ''Kitchen Nightmares'' (1.6/6, 3.8 million) but a lot more than bending your competition in overall audiences. ''Gifted'' were built with a 2.9 rating among women 25-54. The 8 p.m. season premiere from the CW's ''Nikita'' (.6/2, 1.9 million), on its new evening, provided a demo rating which was under 50% of their series debut last year on Thursdays, in addition to last year's ''Smallville'' within the same place. NBC, which in fact had broadcast in-situation-you-skipped-Them repeats of recent series ''Up All Night'' (.8/3, 3.two million) and ''Whitney (.9/3, 3.a million) at 8 p.m., did best Friday having a two-hour ''Dateline'' (2./6, 7.a million) that capped within the demo at 9 p.m. and matched up the growing season premiere of CBS' ''Blue Bloods'' (2./6, 11.8 million) at 10 p.m. ''Blue Bloods'' had the night's top overall audience along with a 3.7 rating in females 25-54. At 9 p.m., the growing season premiere of CBS' ''CSI: NY'' (1.8/6, 10.7 million) capped individuals of Fox's ''Fringe'' (1.5/5, 3.5 million) and also the CW's ''Supernatural'' (.8/2, 2. million), these falling lacking year-ago performances. ABC continued to be steady Friday with repeats of ''Modern Family'' (1./4, 3.9 million) ''Revenge'' (1./3, 4.a million) along with a new ''20/20'' (1./3, 3.3 million). Preliminary 18-49 earnings for that evening: CBS 1.7/6, NBC 1.6/5, Fox 1.6/5, ABC 1./3, CW .7/2. As a whole audiences: CBS 10.six million, NBC 5.8 million, ABC 3.8 million, Fox 3.7 million, CW 1.9 million. Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com