While romantic date nights could explain declining performances for Lost and Eli Stone, the same reason doesn’t apply to Celebrity Apprentice’s improvement.  By night’s end, CBS was again a winner with the viewers while ABC had the edge in the demos.

8pm

• Survivor: Micronesia (13.1 million, 4.5/13 in 18-49) lost 800,000 deserters.
• Deal or No Deal (11 million, 3.4/10) saw a 1.7 million improvement.
• Lost* (6.2 million, 2.0/6) slid by 300,000.
• Coverage of the NAACP Image Awards (1.4/4) drew 3.9 million.
• Smallville (3.7 million, 1.5/4) was off by about 300,000.

9pm

• Lost (13.6 million, 5.7/15 in 18-49) saw 1.6 million wander away.
• CSI* (11 million, 2.9/8) was off track by 900,000.
• About 9.1 million saw Omarosa and Piers go at it on Celebrity Apprentice (3.7/10).
• Supernatural (2.9 million, 1.2/3) gained 200,000.

10pm

• Without a Trace* (9.6 million, 2.3/7 in 18-49) won the hour without a problem.
• Eli Stone (7.8 million, 2.8/8) dropped another 1.2 million.
• Lipstick Jungle (6.1 million, 2.5/7) declined 1.4 million from its debut.

*denotes repeat

(You can review last Thursday’s numbers here.)