So You Think You Can Dance opened its 11th season on Wednesday night with 5.3 million total viewers and a 1.6 demo rating — up a bit in audience yet down 16 percent in the demo versus its previous premiere (which aired in-season opposite a mighty NCIS finale).
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Leading out of a Last Comic Standing rerun, the NBC News special Inside the Mind of Edward Snowden (5.9 mil/1.3) led the 10 o’clock slot in the demo (but was edged out by a CSI rerun in total audience, 5.9 mil vs. 6.1 mil).
Elsewhere among fresh fare, The CW’s The 100 (1.7 mil/0.6) rose 16 percent and a tenth and ABC’s Motive (4 mil/0.9) was flat.
A Criminal Minds repeat drew Wednesday’s largest audience, with 7.2 million viewers.
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