NEW YORK (AP) — A jump on the fall television season enabled NBC to get some of its new series sampled.

The premiere episode of “Revolution,” a J.J. Abrams thriller about a world with the power grid shut down, reached 11.7 million viewers last week and finished among the Nielsen Co.’s top 10. NBC had aired highlights of the pilot episode during the Olympics and the full episode last Monday, a week before the official season opening.