Ratings: Grey's Leads ABC to Third-Straight Thursday Win

Grey's Anatomycontinued to dominate in the 18-49 demo Thursday night, leading ABC to its third-straight Thursday night victory, according to overnight estimates.
CBS' CSI scored 14.6 million to Grey's 13.8 million, but the ABC drama handily defeated the CBS procedural among adults 18-49. The Office's buzzed-about, hourlong wedding episode also outperformed CSI in the demo and pulled in 9.1 million viewers for the show's best numbers in nearly a year. Fringeand Supernaturalheld steady at 6 million viewers and 2.5 million viewers, respectively.
Survivor: Samoa won the 8/7c timeslot with 11.7 million viewers. FlashForwarddipped a bit to 9 million viewers, while Bonesimproved to 9.9 million. NBC's Community(5.1 million viewers) improved over last week's SNL: Weekend Update Thursday, but the show lost 13 percent of the audience it was pulling in when it followed The Office.
Parks and Recreationbuilt on Community's audience, pulling in a season high of 5 million viewers. Vampire Diariesmaintained 3.5 million viewers.
At 10/9c, The Mentalistwas watched by 14.2 million viewers. Private Practicewon the demo but came in second in overall viewers (9.5 million), followed by The Jay Leno Show (4.8 million viewers.)
Ratings for almost every show were down due to cable coverage of the Major League Baseball playoffs.