Maybe they should move Royal Pains to NBC

I'm not sure how good Royal Pains is. The first two episodes were entertaining, and it seems to be a good match with their other Thursday night hit, Burn Notice.

So NBC should sit up and take notice, because it is beating their network TV show in the same slot. And the parent company of NBC also owns the USA Network.

From Broadcasting & Cable:

Royal Pains drew 2.35 million viewers 18-49 Thursday, up 2% from last week, and 2.6 million P25-54, up 3%. The episode drew 5.6 million total viewers, on par with last week’s premiere.

USA also continues to dominate its broadcast sibling NBC in that timeslot. At 10 p.m. NBC aired a new episode of its drama The Listener. The Listener drew just a 1.3 rating in the 18-49 demo, and only 4.38 million viewers (according to Nielsen Fast Nationals).

USA Network is a juggernaut. Between their original programming (Psych might be the best comedy on TV, and Monk is pretty damned good too) and wrestling (WWE still gets super high ratings), no network comes close to the numbers that USA gets.