It was too late to be going up against “American Idol,” so it must have been another powerhouse viewer-magnet that the audience just had to see. First place for the Tuesday 10 PM slot: “Primetime: What Would You Do Now?”

Hmmm. Well, I can’t account for TV viewers myself – 11million people opted for an NCIS rerun in the 8 PM slot. “Primetime” pulled in twice as many viewers as “quarterlife.”

Maybe the hipster-geek-web-crowd was torn about what to watch. While it may have been very cool that a Web-show got picked up for prime time, it was up against “Jericho,” which was forced back on the air by a rabid, peanut-chucking campaign by the same set of hipsters. The good news is that “Jericho” picked up another million viewers, trailing “Primetime” by just 700,000 with 6.9 million.

I mean, really, it might as well have been up against “Robot Chicken.” Maybe that hipster-geek-web-crowd won’t be so torn when “quarterlife” is moved to its intended Sunday night 9 PM time slot when it faces…

“Family Guy.”

Oh. I guess a time slot against any of the incarnations of “Star Trek” was unavailable, huh? If you’re a “quarterlife” fan, keep your fingers crossed that it ends up shown on Saturday afternoons.