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America didn’t get the big dust-up between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren that many were expecting Thursday night in the two leading Democrats’ first debate faceoff, but looks like a lot of them tuned in to ABC looking for it.

Hosted by ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos, ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir, ABC News correspondent Linsey Davis and rather excellent Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, the meet-up in Houston saw the ex-VP, the Massachusetts senator, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a sometimes acerbic ex-HUD Secretary Julian Castro and the six other top-polling contenders for Donald Trump’s job take on the absent incumbent and one another for nearly three primetime hours.

Facing an NFL game on cable and MLB over on Fox, the third debate by the Democrats for the most part lacked the anticipated fireworks betwen the front-runners but might have more than made up for it in the ratings.

In metered-market results, last night’s Democratic debate scored a 10.0 for the Disney-owned network, which also simulcasted the event on Univision. That’s a 23% rise over the Biden- and Sanders-starring Night 2 of the two-headed first debate on NBC back on June 27.

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Up just over 17% over Night 1 on the Comcast-owned outlet, that second-night scrimmage proved to be the most-watched Democratic debate ever with an audience of 18.1 million peering on NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo. Of that big number, 11 million watched on the Big 4 net – a number last night’s Lone Star state debate looks poised to exceed, if the early metrics are any indication.

In fact, the ABC debate could top 15 million and maybe beat the overall Dems debate record once Univision numbers are factored in.

It’s a bit of an unfair comparison, all things considered, but the second night of debate on CNN in late July snagged 10.7 million viewers. Adding in CNN en Español, Night 2 of the second round of debates went up to 10.8 million, according to Nielsen.

Except for Big Brother (1.1/6), which had its biggest audience of the season so far with 4.6 million watching in clear counter programming, CBS and NBC went for all encores last night – as you can see in our chart below.

Still, even in the fluid fast affiliates ABC was the clear winner with a 1.9./10 rating among adults 18-49 and 11.22 million viewers watching the debate. Right now Univision is averaging an audience of 1.02 million, but that will all likely tick upwards in the final numbers. Otherwise there was MLB (0.5/3) on Fox and The Outpost (0.2/1) and Two Sentence Horror (0.1/1) on the CW.

We’ll update with more Democratic debate ratings as we get them.

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