By Tim Molloy

Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:23pm BST

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - ABC's organisation for a weekday period comedy country is soured to a beatific move as Tim Allen's "Last Man Standing" premiered to solidified numbers.

The 8 p.m. comedy, with a primary one-hour streaming time, debuted to a 3.5/10 in the treasured 18-49 demonstrate and 13 meg viewers. At 9 p.m., "Dancing With the Stars" scored a 3.2/8 -- up 10 proportionality from terminal hebdomad -- and 16.6 meg amount viewers. At 10, "Body of Proof" had a 1.9/5 and 9.4 million.

"Standing" was up 9 proportionality from the execute of the today canceled "No Ordinary Family" in the timeslot terminal fall. ABC said it was the most-watched comedy program entry at 8 p.m. since Sept 2004. Allen's grapheme power, however, couldn't acquire it a large entry than "2 Broke Girls" and "The New Girl," both of which had meliorate execute ratings. ("2 Broke Girls" unpaid its unpaid execute ratings in conception to a Brobdingnagian lead-in from "Two and a Half Men.")

Allen marked on ABC's "Home Improvement" from 1991 to 1999. "Standing" will create a man-centric weekday period comedy country with added newborn sitcom, "Man Up," which debuts Tuesday.

It was blurred what meshwork would get the period weekday because number's for Fox's programme of the MLB dweller League Championship Series Game 3 were not directly available.

But CBS's "NCIS" was the top-rated show, earning a 3.9/11 and 18.7 meg amount audience at 8. "NCIS: Los Angeles" at 9 had a 3.3/8 and 15.4 meg amount viewers. At 10, "Unforgettable" had a 2.3/6 and 11.8 meg amount viewers. It was downbound 8 proportionality in the ratings and impact a program low.

NBC's "The Biggest Loser," from 8-10, had a 2.0/5 and 5.5 meg amount viewers. It was the show's lowest-rated lawful start airing. But "Parenthood," at 10, was up 5 percent, earning a 2.1/5 and 5.3 meg amount viewers.