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| Total Viewers (million) | 15.675 | 11.377 | 6.627 | 5.519 | 4.280 | 1.689 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 3.8/9 | 4.0/10 | 2.8/7 | 2.3/6 | 1.7/4 | 0.8/2 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.5/7 | 2.7/7 | 2.9/8 | 2.1/6 | 2.1/6 | 1.1/3 |
Dancing with the Stars again powered ABC to the viewership win on Monday with 15.675 million viewers, but CBS's comedy block, lead by Two and a Half Men, took the 18-49 demo with a 4.0 rating / 10 share. NBC, while well back in viewers, took the 18-34 demo on the youthful strength of Heroes.
Dancing with the Stars averaged 18.81 million viewers and was the most watched show of the night and was down about 2% from last week. The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother provided strong demo competition during the 8-9 hour, with HIMYM winning the 18-34 demo in its portion.
The heavy promotion for Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles may have had some effect. It was up a bit in viewers, but up 0.3 ratings points for 18-49 and 0.4 ratings points for 18-34 from last week, both big % moves. Chuck lost about 10% of its viewers and 20% in each demo from its premiere last week.
While Two and a Half Men didn't challenge the viewership of Dancing with the Stars, it beat it to win the hour for adults 18-49, and be the most watched show in the demo for the night. Heroes, well back in viewership, and down about 10% from last week, was still the 18-34 winner for the hour and the night. Prison Break was well back, but was up 10% in the demos from last week.
CSI: Miami was down about 10% from last week as well, but still dominated the 10-11 hour across the board.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers Live+SD (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/ Share | 18-34 Rating/ Share |
| 8:00 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars (8-10p) | 17.922 | 4.2/11 | 2.8/8 |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 9.325 | 3.6/10 | 2.4/8 | |
| NBC | Chuck | 5.892 | 2.2/6 | 2.1/6 | |
| FOX | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 5.610 | 2.3/6 | 2.0/6 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | 4.290 | 1.7/4 | 2.2/6 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl (repeat) | 1.836 | 0.8/2 | 1.2/3 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 8.958 | 4.0/10 | 3.0/8 |
| 9:00 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars (8-10p) | 19.701 | 4.7/11 | 3.2/8 |
| CBS | Two and a Half Men | 13.936 | 5.1/12 | 3.2/8 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 8.209 | 4.0/9 | 4.4/11 | |
| FOX | Prison Break | 5.427 | 2.2/5 | 2.2/5 | |
| UNI | Fuego en la Sangre | 5.063 | 2.0/5 | 2.5/6 | |
| CW | Privileged (repeat) | 1.542 | 0.8/2 | 1.1/3 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | Worst Week | 8.794 | 3.0/7 | 1.9/5 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI Miami | 13.625 | 4.0/10 | 2.7/7 |
| ABC | Boston Legal | 9.403 | 2.4/6 | 1.4/4 | |
| NBC | Life | 5.780 | 2.3/6 | 2.2/6 | |
| UNI | Cristina | 3.487 | 1.4/3 | 1.5/4 |
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Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot. Timeslot demo winners are in bold.
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Heroes a winner? Come on, i know the demos are still OK-ish but 8 million? That’s terrible
Yes, Privileged was a repeat. The CW should consider swapping Privileged with OTH (or 90210 with GG).
What about raising the bar??? Does anyone know how well are they holding up??
Be interesting to see where the viewers will go for tomorrow being as Fringe is not on.
@kannon
Not good, i think last week they did 2 million or something like that
Bob, Heroes was the most watched show for 18-34 adults for the night.
SG, GG, thanks I will edit out the ?.
Kannon, we may see Bar’s numbers for last week in our cable list today, but its not out yet.
Bill, the question is : so?
GG is uasually the most watched by teen girls all week. DOes that make it a winner?
Maybe that top spot in 18-34 can keep it out of the losers column but nothing more than that.
Just an FYI…Chuck was on MyTV20 in Colorado for a Senate Debate on NBC.
Brooke Burke on Dancing With the Stars is helping the ratings.
Brooke has a killer body that women can only hope to attain. And she has four kids to boot.
Find me a women that looks like that, and I’m all over her watching her every step.
Bob, demo winners are valuable, average viewership doesn’t pay the bills, adult demo viewership does. Primarily 18-49 adults, but 18-34 adults as well.
hey guys just worried about life..these don’t look like great numbers..if it goes on like that, will the show be cancelled? if so when? thnx
Bill sorry to be a pain but i was just wondering. Do you have any sources inside Fox?
Thanks, Bill, for finding that silver lining in the cloud of a 2.3 18-49 share and 5.6m overall viewers for Terminator last night.
Heroes should be getting better ratings as the episodes so far have been great and a vast improvement on season 2. DWTS is a ratings juggernaut!
yeah, heroes might be the winner but those ratings are terrible compared to even last week….. and if you compare it to the previous seasons.. wow.
Heroes was indeed down, as I posted, but still the demo winner.
If by inside you mean someone who tells me things others don’t get, no.
still not good ratings for terminator. but at least its beating prison break so its not all bad lol. anyone know if its on next week?
Be interesting to see the DVR numbers for Heroes.
John,
Both Terminator & Prison Break are off next week. The previews said “In Two Weeks”
I’m not so worried with the ratings for both of these shows as I was at first. They both keep holding on to what they have and when the DVR+7 or whatever it is gets factored in both usually are about 6.5 million. Personally I don’t think thats too bad when the night is so full of other programs, especially DWTS which takes in such a chunk of viewers.
Well…I noticed FOX pushing SARAH in 2 weeks (due to Baseball series) that they have no thought on moving SARAH to WED NITES…If they don’t move her by mid way of the 13 episodes then their would be no reason to move at all…last nights episode with the soft metal terminator was freaky/cool…but the DRAMA is really good – just the whole – save a life to lose the same life later to save another life was well written and explained…last night episode was by far my favorite.
WHAT ABOUT THIS DO PEOPLE NOT GET – Please FOX and especially viewers – keep Sarah from getting terminated by the meanest terminator of all…The Ratings!