TV ratings: 'Hannibal' premieres soft for NBC; 'Big Bang Theory' dominates the night

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Fast National ratings for Thursday, April 4, 2013

"Hannibal" had a fairly soft premiere for NBC at 4.3 million viewers, though that's still up from the last drama NBC tried in the Thursday-at-10 timeslot, when "Do No Harm" premiered to historically bad ratings.

"Go On" took a hit by moving to Thursdays, with its lowest ratings so far with only 2.4 million viewers. Elsewhere, "American Idol" was up slightly from its all-time low a week ago.

CBS won the night with an average of 13.3 million viewers and an 8.3 rating/13 share in households. Fox was a distant second at 7.7 million, 4.8/8, followed by ABC at 6.9 million, 4.7/8, NBC at 3.3 million, 2.1/3 and the CW at 955,000 viewers and a 0.6/1.

In the adults 18-49 demographic, CBS won with a 3.1, followed by Fox (2.3), ABC (2.2), NBC 1.4) and the CW (0.3)

Thursday hour by hour:

8 p.m.

CBS: "Big Bang Theory" (16.8 million, 10/17)/"Two and a Half Men" (13.6 million, 8.4/13)

Fox: "American Idol" (11.3 million viewers, 7.0/11)

ABC: "Wife Swap" (4.1 million, »

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