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| Rating: Adults 18-49 | 2.2/6 | 2.1/6 | 1.8/5 | 1.6/5 | 1.5/4 | 0.3/1 |
| Rating: Adults 18-34 | 1.5/5 | 1.9/6 | 1.3/4 | 1.4/5 | 1.6/5 | 0.3/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 7.76 | 5.92 | 5.17 | 4.73 | 3.66 | .863 |
CBS repeats narrowly edged out ABC reality programming among 18-49 year olds, but ABC had the larger audience with adults 18-34. Two and a Half Men was the night’s most-watched program overall, and most-watched by adults 18-49, while The Bachelorette had the largest audience with adults 18-34.
If Here Comes the Newlyweds performed better, ABC would've taken the night, but a repeat of CSI: Miami won the 10pm hour and Dateline NBC also came in ahead of Newlyweds at 10pm.
NBC's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here had it's lowest Monday adults 18-49 rating of the summer, averaging a 1.8/5 (adults 18-49 rating/share) from 8pm-10pm. While I doubt the folks at NBC are running around high-fiving each other, considering that Heidi and Spencer are gone, and that Celebrity managed a 2.0 adults 18-49 rating from 9p-10pm, NBC isn't likely shedding any tears either. Of course, after all the tears already shed over Kings, the NBC tear ducts were likely dry.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | ABC | The Bachelorette | 2.2/7 | 2.1/7 | 6.51 |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory (R) | 1.8/6 | 1.2/4 | 6.09 | |
| FOX | House (R) | 1.7/5 | 1.5/5 | 4.88 | |
| NBC | I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here | 1.6/5 | 1.2/4 | 4.67 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl (R) | 0.4/1 | 0.3/1 | 0.91 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | How I Met Your Mother (R) | 2.0/6 | 1.4/5 | 5.65 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Two and a Half Men (R) | 2.8/8 | 1.7/5 | 10.07 |
| ABC | The Bachelorette | 2.5/7 | 2.3/7 | 7.07 | |
| NBC | I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here | 2.0/5 | 1.5/5 | 5.21 | |
| FOX | Lie To Me (R) | 1.5/4 | 1.3/4 | 4.58 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill (R) | 0.3/1 | 0.3/1 | 0.81 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory (R) | 2.6/7 | 1.7/5 | 8.36 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami (R) | 2.0/6 | 1.4/4 | 8.18 |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.9/5 | 1.3/4 | 5.64 | |
| ABC | Here Come the Newlyweds | 1.6/5 | 1.4/5 | 4.17 |
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Shows are sorted by 18-49 rating in each time slot.
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house just doesn’t repeat like it used to….
perhaps it’s b/c USA repeats it so much?
tdot, House runs a LOT on USA. Moreover, in-season repeats also make their way to USA Network. I’m sure that somehow results for cheaper fees for FOX, but it does mean you can see in-season repeats somewhere besides FOX.
Big numbers for TBBT repeat at 9:30, almost matching 2.5 men’s numbers. Kudos to CBS for taking advantage of the summer to grow a blossoming hit as oppose to just dumping tier 2 programming.(although they do that too w/big brother)
Similar congrats go to lie to me for its impressive retention. If I were fox I’d be hunting for slots to rerun this show more than once a week.
I’m sure there are quite a few fans who’ve quit watching House over the last few seasons, myself being one of them. I almost always prefer the reruns of the first 3 seasons on USA than the newer seasons. The show isn’t the same as it used to be and I’ll bet I’m not the only one who feels that way.
@dave, I agree with the kudos to CBS for investing an extra 2 years in TBBT. When the new episodes debut in September, I can see it becoming the top rated comedy on TV, which amongst CBS own shows (HIMYM, 2.5M) would be quite the achievement. TBBT has been my favourite comedy since it debuted and I’m so looking forward to the next 2 guaranteed seasons.
@shelly, I’ve stuck with House since the pilot and although the last 2 seasons haven’t been as good as the first 3, I’m ever hopeful that it can be as good again. I believe House is going to be the only show in the Fall with a double length season premiere episode and that should pretty much win the first Monday night back for Fox.
@Dave, it’s interesting that you put it that way because I don’t think House is bad now…I literally put it how I meant it, that’s it’s not the same show that it was the first 3 seasons when they focused on the medical mysteries and characterization and ethics of making tough medical decisions. The show used to be very philosophical and nuanced but once the 3 original fellows left, it’s gotten too heavily centered on the characters’ personal lives and that’s not the show I signed on to watch. Plus, they’ve cut down on the old favorites (Wilson) in favor of less interesting new characters (13), and I hate that they’ve pushed the medical mysteries almost off to the side because they used to be so exciting. And I REALLY hate fewer clinic scenes. I wouldn’t say the show is bad or unwatchable now but I don’t like all these changes and I don’t think anything they would do now would ever compare to classic House when we got such brilliant episodes like Autopsy and Three Stories.
@shelly, I agree with you. The first three seasons with Foreman, Chase and Cameron were really good. They had decent guest arcs like House’s ex and that detective who became House’s nemesis. Then, as you say, they got fired and we had that “Apprentice” format for season four which wasn’t that great. However, while I liked Taub and especially Kutner, 13/Hadley just hasn’t grown on me at all which is probably why Amber “came back”. And the biggest mystery of the lot, what happened to that young detective who worked for House at the start of season five who was rumoured to get a spinoff show?
Anyway, I must say I’m not annoyed by House because it’s one of my must-see shows and hopefully in season six, once House resolves his “issues” from the final episodes of season five, we’ll get more Wilson, Cuddy, Cameron and even Chase. But yes, I have to agree with you again, the Autopsy and especially the Three Stories episodes were absolutely brilliant in their storytelling even though, with hindsight, they were probably lightning in a bottle.
@Dave, my guess is the spinoff thing was just a rumor, nothing more.
I didn’t particularly care for or mind Taub and Kutner (though I liked Taub more and thought Kutner’s was one of the least fleshed-out characters of the show) but another big gripe fans had was that House just didn’t seem as attached to the new team as the old, something else I have to agree with. And it’s not even the characters which I thought were problematic, but how the plots got more and more un-House-ish and ridiculous. Like someone at TWOP once said, House works best when it sticks to the procedural formula and uses that to emphasize its characters, not when they turn it into some weird hybrid of Grey’s Anatomy. The show needs to get back to its roots to be what it was but I think it may be too late for that. I wouldn’t be surprised if Jennifer Morrison and/or Jesse Spencer aren’t long for the show since they were hardly on it last season.
Shelley, I haven’t heard about Jennifer Morrison’s status, but Jesse Spencer announced a few months ago he’s re-signed his contract to match the length of Hugh Laurie’s, so hopefully he did that because the show writers will actually use him next year, and as a doctor, not Cameron’s BF. Just my opinion, but I find keeping Olivia Wilde & the 13 character a serious mistake as was the decision not to keep Amber. Bringing Anne Dudek back repeatedly just emphasizes that even more as did getting rid of Kutner, who was actually a likeable character in the sea of bitchy snottiness that is Foreman & 13. I personally find them incredibly annoying to watch.
CBS is being very savy, programing Big Bang Theory against House – its clearly attracting key demos who may chose to stick with the show when the new season starts, rather than switch back to House & that may be why Fox is programming that two hour season premiere. I’m sure they will milk every bit of publicity they can out of that.
Anon, that’s interesting if that’s true; however, I doubt Spencer’s screen time or involvement in the plots will ever be as much as it was in the first 3 seasons. It seems to me like Shore and Jacobs know how unpopular all their changes to the show have been with the fans who liked the first 3 seaons, but they’re never going to admit it or do anything different because they want to save face. They always say in interviews things like “oh, the fans don’t want to embrace change” and “it’s unrealistic for fellows to work more than a few years” but they don’t get the point. If they had changed the team but still kept the storytelling to the level of quality we got in the first few seasons, I think the fans would’ve still been okay with it, but that’s not what they did. They didn’t just change the characters, they changed most of the things that made the show work in terms of the writing and direction of the storylines. I don’t know about other fans, but *that’s* what made me quit watching the show more than anything else. You can have different characters come in but still retain the quality of the show (Joss Whedon took Angel and Cordelia off Buffy and added Anya, Riley, Tara, etc., but he didn’t change the show at the core). It can be done, but that’s not what Shore and Jacobs did.
I never liked 13 or Foreman (never liked Foreman, period, I always found him to be the most unlikeable members of the team). But anon, I have to disagree with you when you say that Amber should’ve stuck around. Anne Dudek was awesome in the role, yes. But she was much too acerbic of a character and would’ve taken too much of the focus away from House if she’d become a regular. IMO she was good in small doses and making her Wilson’s girlfriend was brilliant, but if she’d been Cutthroat Bitch week after week, it would’ve gotten old. The show is called House, and to have a character who is such a powerful presence would’ve detracted it from House. I would’ve have chosen to kill her off, but I wouldn’t have made her part of House’s new team, either.
As for Kutner, he was likeable but I can honestly not recall a single storyline that was centered around him or any kind of distinct characteristic of his other than he was the typical Indian doctor – the writers did NOTHING to make him stand out at all or give him something to play with, which is something every other character on this show has gotten at some point (Foreman with the disease he got in the 2-parter, Chase and his father’s cancer, Cameron with her AIDS scare, Wilson and Amber dying, Cuddy and baby storyline, 13 and her Huntington’s, Taub and his marriage problems). I got the impression that either the writers didn’t care to develop Kutner, and Penn’s decision to leave gave them the perfect excuse to not even try anymore.
Getting back to the ratings discussion, I don’t think moving House to Mondays was ever the best decision, either, being that it’s the most stuffed night of television. But I doubt it’ll be in danger of cancellation anytime soon, which is why Fox may not have been worried about doing it.
Shelly, I do agree that Shore & Jacobs are unlikely to ever admit they’ve made any mistakes. I find them hilarious with their double speak – the “it’s unrealistic for fellows to work more than a few years” only applies when its convenient, Foreman after all has just finished his 5th year & he’s still only a senior fellow (& demonstrably stupider than s1 Foreman). Problem with the double speak is it continues to destroy their credibility, as did Jacobs in particular earlier rants about how Chase & Cameron would be back in full force turned out to be complete claptrap.
Is the show in danger of cancellation anytime soon – no, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised it it takes a major hit in the ratings next year & is no longer the anchor show for Fox it once was. Its numbers took significant hits after the end of s3 & s4 & after the way the season ended for s5 I think its reasonable to speculate that there are viewers who won’t be back. There’s a reason why procedurals are popular, people like the familiarity of the solution, they don’t necessarily like having the carpet yanked out from under them as happened repeatedly on House, stuff like Kutner’s suicide, the big reveal of hallucination story line or the ship-serving lobotomies suffered by Cuddy & Cameron. I do think there is potentially some worry about the ratings, otherwise why program an early “event” to pull in viewers. Shore & Jacobs have developed an unfortunate tendency to focus over much on the showy stunts to make sure the demos stay high at times like sweeps, but they then neglect the rest of the season, hence the lack of development of Kutner & increasing reliance on stunt casting. Its a vicious cycle because they end up having to top themselves each time – and they’ve already played the “OMG!House almost died” a little to often ;D
Anon, LOL about your lobotomies comment.
I so agree with you. I liked the show so much better when Cuddy had the gall to stand up to House, even if she knew she wouldn’t win, not when she and House were fawning over each other (really, Shore and Jacobs, this is not that other hospital soap opera show). The show used to be so smart and unique, a mystery procedural where the villain is an illness. Now they’ve done just what you said – resort to stupid stunts and gimmicks (the hostage storyline) and unnecessarily make it about the characters’ romantic entanglements. Mostly I feel bad for Hugh Laurie; he never got the Emmy he deserved and will probably never get it with this material.
We stopped watching House in first run last season. We watch BBT and then catch House in reruns. Sort of. I didn’t even know Kutner committed suicide. I’m not upset about the spoiler. Frankly, the new bunch just wasn’t the same and the producers ackowleged it by keeping the original three around just enough to provide hope they would be back. Most importantly, they’ve violated what I call the “Perry Mason Rule”. Give me the puzzle and the solution. I don’t want to know who Perry or Della, or for that matter, Paul are seeing after work. They make afternoon soaps to fulfill that niche.
Just wanted to agree with the above posters about House. The show is much less interesting the last two seasons, partly because it’s less complex and more forced soap opera relationships, partly because the more interesting characters of Cameron, Chase and Amber were pushed aside for Thirteen and Foreman, while Wilson was reduced to pushing the House/Cuddy ‘ship.
I’ve watched since the pilot and while I’ll still watching repeats of season 1 – 3 in spite of having seen every episode at least three times, I have no interest in watching repeats of seasons 4 or 5 except for a few isolated episodes, usually ones where they go back to the old format and use the whole cast instead of the stunts or limited soap opera of the current season.
Unless Shore goes back to the old format (and the spoilers look like he isn’t), I suspect there will be a further drop in the ratings.
Already it’s failing to provide the bump for Mental that it was supposed to on Tuesdays. Mental is doing better than the House repeats.