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| Total Viewers (million) | 16.71 | 10.29 | 8.99 | 6.36 | 4.35 | 2.23 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 4.2/11 | 3.4/9 | 3.0/8 | 2.4/6 | 1.8/5 | 1.1/3 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 3.1/9 | 2.5/7 | 2.7/8 | 1.9/5 | 1.8/5 | 1.4/4 |
ABC of course won the night with Dancing with the Stars averaging 20.02 million and a 4.9/13 (rating/share) with adults 18-49. Castle continued to slide, down to 9.81 million and a 2.7/7 and those numbers will slip even further in the final numbers when a couple of minutes of Dancing with the Stars overrun is removed.
One thing looks sure, The Big Bang Theory is stronger at 8pm than How I Met Your Mother. Last night CBS aired Mother in the 8pm slot and it averaged 7.4 million and a 2.9/8 (rating/share) with adults 18-49. Comparatively last week at 8pm Bang averaged 9.76 and a 3.7/11 at 8pm. Even more notable in that last week's Bang aired against a new episode of House and last night's HIMYM aired against a repeat of House.
Two weeks ago (the last time there was a new episode) of Chuck, it averaged 5.69 million and a 2.0 rating with adults 18-49. I'd speculated that up against a repeat of House it would need to bump up at least 10% or even be more cause for concern that it already was among many fans. The good news is it did, and increased to 6.05 million and a 2.2 a 2.1 rating with adults 18-49. (update: I saw more info and the 2.1 number seems correct -- not a 10% gain and not good news)
The bad worse news is Chuck needed a repeat of House in order to pull those kind of numbers which even with the increases are still mediocre. I know the newest Renew/Cancel index will likely show it as "green" and likely to be renewed, but I see it as squarely on the bubble.
I am not in the pack who think bad news for Heroes is good news for Chuck. It's just all bad news for NBC. Two weeks ago Heroes averaged 6.63 million and a 3.2/8, last night it was still dropping, down to 6.48 million and a 2.9/7 -- another series low with adults 18-49.
Without a new House as a lead in, 24 dropped from last week's 11.34 million and a 3.7/9 to 10.3 million and a 3.4/8 last night.
Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill were a touch lower than last week, but not sure how they did in the young female demos. BTW, I haven't see any of the 18-34 demo data yet, but will update the table below once I have.
Update: at 8pm, the season finale of The Secret Life of the American Teenager average 4.5 million, and a 2.0 rating with adults 18-49 on ABC Family (here are the full details from ABC Family)
Previous Monday overnight reports are available for comparison.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 19.38 | 4.7/13 | 3.5/10 |
| FOX | House (R) | 7.67 | 2.7/7 | 2.6/7 | |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 7.40 | 2.9/8 | 2.6/8 | |
| NBC | Chuck | 6.05 | 2.1/6 | 1.6/5 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 2.20 | 1.0/3 | 1.4/4 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | How I Met Your Mother (R) | 6.95 | 2.6/7 | 2.2/6 |
| 9:00 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 20.94 | 5.2/13 | 3.9/10 |
| CBS | Two and a Half Men (R) | 11.06 | 3.5/9 | 2.4/6 | |
| FOX | 24 | 10.30 | 3.4/8 | 2.9/8 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 6.48 | 2.9/7 | 2.7/7 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill | 2.26 | 1.1/3 | 1.5/4 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | Rules of Engagement | 9.43 | 3.4/8 | 2.2/6 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami | 13.46 | 4.0/11 | 3.0/9 |
| ABC | Castle | 9.81 | 2.7/7 | 2.1/6 | |
| NBC | Medium | 6.56 | 2.2/6 | 1.5/4 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company.
Definitions:
Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
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good job on chucks part.
Aww, yay, Chuck’s back up to 6 mil! I know that’s not great or even good, but I’m not as anxious as I was 2 weeks ago.
And thanks for posting these before I left work! I think they’re usually posted closer to 12 my time and I’m grateful I didn’t have to wait ’til I got home to find out.
Nice to see that the Woz is playing the geek card to the max
yeah but most people werent aware that HIMYM was gonna be on at 8. HIMYM usually gets the same amount of viewers as TBBT so i dont think this article is fair at all.
so HIMYM did horrible and Rules dropped from a 2.5 Men repeat. Not a good night for CBS.
Castle dropped again..I really wanto see how this show repeats.
Heroes is a joke, it had a 5.0 in the Season Premiere and now has a 3.0
Gossip Girl/OTH maybe were hit by the season finale of The Secret Life of the American Teenager on ABCFamily.
Well, that’s because NBC took a break last week, maybe?
Sad the ratings were bad for HEROES, Bryan Fuller’s episode was amazing yesterday, and I think even Nick C, will even agree that the quality of yesterday’s episode was quite good.
im just curious, medium has the highest total as far as viewer are concerned for monday nights, but its tied for last in the demos.. any explanation for this?
Yay chuck, too bad about heroes….
Swarley, I don’t think the article’s slanted – though I think it would have been wiser for CBS to put the rerun at 7 and the new episode at its normal time.
Could “Big Bang Theory” be the stronger show between them and Mother???
Ummm
DWTS does not help matters at all, and their are people in the current cycle I am pulling for thus I do watch Stars.
Heroes can’t stop the bleeding. And Castle really needs to stay above a 2.5 to be safe. Even the highly criticized Better Off Ted was able to get a 2.2 with fairly solid 18-34 numbers. And that was with a Scrubs lead-in.
I want Chuck season 3 so bad, but my guts telling me we won’t get it:( NBC are an utter disgrace:O
So happy about Gossip Girl going down. The CW should rethink its stategy and spend some money on Supernatural.
@djm:
Medium’s audience skews older than the demo.
This Chuck news is so depressing. I wish there was something us viewers with Nielsen boxes could do to help the show out.
^The difference is that Better Off Ted was at 8:30, not at 10PM. It’s very hard to launch a show at 10PM.
I think the numbers will change when CSI:Miami goes into repeats. Both shows are sharing audience.
I gotta agree with Swarley, I had no idea HIMYM was on at 7, completely missed the show. I didn’t know anything about the time change, not sure why they didn’t put the repeat on at 7, I think the numbers at 730 would have been better.
Why does’nt NBC just put Chuck on another night so it is not competing with House? Thursday anyone?
that was last week’s Woz geek chic. He played it to the max again last night but I couldn’t get a good picture of it. I’m not sure how much it will help him. his dance scored a 10 out of 30
definitely the low for the night though I’m not sure it is an all time DWTS low.
cool, HIMYM did not to ‘horrible’. And Rules kept almost all of the 2.5Men’s lead-in. I realize it’s a repeat, but a drop is expected in that situation, much the same way 30 Rock does noticably better out of new eps of the Office rather than repeats. I think CBS is happy with the reults.
Castle’s actual viewer numbers aren’t bad, but the demo is worrisome. Especially since in a few weeks when DWtS is down to 90 minutes and ABC sticks the sure to tank, Surviving Suburbia between the two.
How much more is Heroes going to fall before NBC yanks it?