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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 4.2/11 | 4.2/11 | 4.1/10 | 2.6/7 | 1.9/5 | 1.2/3 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 3.9/11 | 3.2/9 | 3.1/9 | 2.1/6 | 2.1/6 | 1.7/5 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 11.698 | 16.757 | 11.857 | 6.401 | 4.573 | 2.383 |
With full schedules of new episodes, it was a tight race at the top Tuesday. Fox lead by House and ABC topped by Dancing with the Stars finished in a tie with an overall 4.2 rating for adults 18-49. CBS lifted by Two and a Half Men was only a tick behind with a 4.1.
NBC was well back, but may have stopped sinking further, as Chuck matched its 18-49 demo from last week, and both Heroes and Medium were up. CBS was up a tick in each demo from two weeks ago when it last had all new episodes.
Even with increased competition, ABC was steady overall from last week, as Dancing with the Stars was up, but newcomer Castle slipped another tick in the demo. It's likely that a small Dancing overrun was in the Castle numbers. While that will be factored out in the final numbers, here are the Castle half hours: 10pm 3.0/8, 2.5/7, 11.2m; 10:30pm 2.1/6, 1.7/5, 8.4m. Castle's crumbling seems to be taking it out of the running for next season.
Fox was close to its last Monday with new episodes, down a tick in adults 18-49, but up two ticks in adults 18-34. Even with more competition, the CW was up in both demos from last week, +0.1 ratings point in 18-49 and +0.3 in 18-34, as Gossip Girl beat Chuck in adults 18-34.
Previous Monday overnight reports are available for comparison.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | 18-34 Rating | 18-34 Share | Viewers Live+SD (000s) |
| 8:00 | FOX | House | 4.7 | 13 | 4.5 | 13 | 12,186 |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 4.3 | 12 | 3.2 | 9 | 18,813 | |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 3.8 | 11 | 2.8 | 9 | 9,765 | |
| NBC | Chuck | 2.1 | 6 | 1.5 | 4 | 5,625 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Ángel | 2.0 | 5 | 2.2 | 6 | 5,081 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 1.3 | 3 | 1.8 | 5 | 2,479 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 3.9 | 10 | 3.4 | 10 | 9,228 |
| 9:00 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 5.4 | 13 | 4.3 | 11 | 21,643 |
| CBS | Two and a Half Men | 5.1 | 12 | 3.8 | 10 | 14,439 | |
| FOX | 24 | 3.7 | 9 | 3.2 | 8 | 11,209 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 3.1 | 7 | 2.9 | 7 | 6,318 | |
| UNI | Mañana Es Para Siempre | 2.3 | 5 | 2.6 | 7 | 5,208 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill | 1.2 | 3 | 1.6 | 4 | 2,288 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | Rules of Engagement | 4.1 | 10 | 2.7 | 7 | 10,993 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI:Miami | 4.0 | 10 | 2.9 | 8 | 13,359 |
| ABC | Castle | 2.6 | 7 | 2.1 | 6 | 9,814 | |
| NBC | Medium | 2.6 | 7 | 1.8 | 5 | 7,260 | |
| UNI | Cristina | 1.4 | 4 | 1.6 | 4 | 3,430 |
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Shows are sorted by adults 18-49 rating in each time slot.
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I hate seeing the numbers for Chuck drop
yeah that’s not right for 2 1/2 men
Jimmy, mystery typo for Two and a Half Men viewership now corrected, thanks!
Could we see the 1/2 hours for Castle? Thanks!
2.5 Men’s numbers have to be wrong – they are identical to HIMYM
oops sorry it’s fixed now I see
I’m going to say that Castle is now in serious danger territory. I guess we won’t know for sure until the final numbers are out, but I’m guessing they won’t be pretty.
I hate shows like Dancing With The Stars and American Idol that destroy the ratings of good scripted shows like Gossip Girl and Lost. Ugh. Reality television digusts me.
do u think that if house was on at 9 it would get higher ratings than 2 n a haf men
Heroes was awesome this week (and last week). The upturn in quality is huge, IMO. I hope the numbers continue to go up but I won’t be holding my breath.
Castle half hour breakdown is still ugly.
3.0/8,2.5/7, 11.23; 2.1/6, 1.7/5, and 8.40
I was expecting Tricia Helfer’s appearance to boost Chuck’s ratings. Maybe some viewers are becoming as frustrated with the show as I am. I’m still hoping that Team Bartowski will be back for a third season, but I don’t think I’ll be too upset if they aren’t.
Glad to see Heroes up, even if its a tiny bit. Last night was Bryan Fuller’s 2nd episode and it was great!
So… Chuck was flat from last week. But last week it was up against a rerun of House and a HIMYM out of its normal time slot. This week it was up against all new episodes of everything.
So, even though it was flat, it didn’t go down due to stronger competition.
That can be seen as the silver lining, eh?
2.1?? Yikes.
elliott, I think it’s kind of a toss up. It would be at a higher HUT time, but it would have more competition with Men and Heroes. It’s an easy bet to say that 24 would be doing worse though, so FOX has it right.
Chuck had a 2.0 and was at least tied for a series low for original episodes depending on who was doing the rounding
trying to put a smile on that didn’t really help any.
Medium looks good(by nbc standards)…great show last nite also!!
Oh yay, good for Heroes! The quality in the recent weeks have gone up big time. Hopefully they can keep bringing the ratings up!