Ratings: L.A. Ink Is in the Pink, a Power Dip and More

LA Ink by Chris Cuffara/TLC
" For starters, Tuesday's premiere of
L.A. Ink averaged 2.9 million viewers, making it TLC's most-watched series debut since January 2003's
What Not to Wear.
" Moving to Wednesday night, CBS'
Power of 10 (7.8 million) suffered a bit of an outage, losing 15 percent of its premiere audience. Still, its numbers were markedly higher than what the Eye was getting this summer in the Wednesdays-at-8 slot.
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So You Think You Can Dance (7.6 mil), despite drawing nearer to the finale, dipped 600K.
Last Comic Standing (5.9 mil) also dropped, to the tune of 900 thou.
"
Don't Forget the Lyrics! (8.8 mil) earned that exclamation point, adding a mil week-to-week.
" ABC's
Knights of Prosperity double-header averaged 2.2 mil, or less than half of what the Alphabet was drawing with
Jim repeats/
American Inventor.
The Nine (1.9 mil) dropped 1.3 mil from its previous week's return audience.