 Complete the following phrase:  The seventh season premiered on September 26, 2010 and averaged 11.85 million viewers. The season saw new lows for the series reaching for the first time below 10 million viewers, and saw lows of 2.7 in the 1849 demographic. For the first half of the season, ratings started strong averaging 12.3 million viewers and 3.9 in the 1849 demographic which is similar to the second half of the sixth season. However, ratings declined in the second half of the season, after two contiguous episodes had to compete against the 