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| Rating: Adults 18-49 | 2.0/6 | 1.5/4 | 1.4/4 | 1.4/4 | 1.3/4 | 0.4/1 |
| Rating: Adults 18-34 | 1.3/4 | 1.1/4 | 1.2/4 | 1.2/4 | 1.4/5 | 0.4/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 6.63 | 5.35 | 5.01 | 4.34 | 3.39 | 1.08 |
For the second consecutive week a rerun of The Big Bang Theory (2.7/7 rating/share with adults 18-49, 8.182 million viewers) edged out Two and a Half Men ( 2.6/7, 8.723M) with adults 18-49. And CBS led the night with its all-repeat lineup of comedies and CSI: Miami. Earlier in the night How I Met Your Mother aired back to back repeats between 8p-9p averaging a 1.6/5 and 4.82 million for the hour.
The CSI: Miami rerun (1.8/5, 6.61M) battled with NBC's Dateline (1.8/5, 6.62M) at 10pm. A repeat of Castle (1.0/3, 3.45M) was a distant third at 10pm. Earlier in the night ABC saw Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (1.4/4, 6.97M) fall over 10% from last Monday in the demo. Diehard Millionaire fans will chalk that up to a preseason Monday Night Football game on ESPN.
ABC's Dating in the Dark (1.8/5, 4.60M) isn't doing as well without The Bachelorette lead-in, but isn't doing badly with expectations adjusted for summer (and a mostly woeful summer at that, for ABC).
FOX ran with reruns of House (1.5/5, 4.66M) and Lie To Me (1.3/4, 4.02M).
Besides Dateline, NBC ran The Great American Road Trip (1.4/5, 4.51M) and the new-ish (ran on USA already, but not NBC) Law & Order: Criminal Intent (1.2/3, 4.93M).
You can see TV ratings from other recent Overnight ratings reports here.
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All numbers are Live+SD.
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nice 2 c TBBT on the top. the show is really great.
Dating in the Dark is doing very well IMO. A 1.8 in the summer, and building from your lead in is something to note. I think ABC should renew it.
Dating in the Dark is doing just fine without Bachelorette lead-in. Im sure ABC will bring the show back next summer. Theres a better chance of ABC bringing that back than Japanese Game Show and that had Wipeout lead-in.
Its nice that ABC tries to come up with shows for the summer unlike the other networks who dont really care.
Would Dating in the Dark do better or worse @ 9pm if an AFV rerun was its lead-in?
ABCHasProblems, it would probably do about the same. Next week they have a repeat of Dating in the Dark, then a new Dating in the Dark, which is the season finale.
TBBT always has a 2.7 nearly every week that is impressive.
Dating in the Dark makes me happy and sad. That fat woman had no right to complain about the way the guy looked. I never think I can get more frustrated with women and then I watch this show and I stand corrected.
In a different turn, who thinks “Big Bang” can keep beating “Men” when the new season starts? At least during the summer, I guess people find Kaley Cuoco better to look at than Charlie Sheen.
LOL I agree CP – that woman was quite judgmental, and she really was in no position to be judging anyone.
On the other hand, she was right – the guy’s scarf was FUGLY as hell…and let’s be honest, he looked like a fruitcake.
Yes, the scarf was a bit much, but women complain so much about men being too judgemental and here they are on this show doing the same thing.
What about CW’s numbers last night??
what about them?
CP, just my 2 cents. I think TBBT will beat 2.5 Men in the demographics but not overall viewers. I like the move to 9:30 with TBBT. I think what we may be seeing is a combination of increased viewership from folks who are new to the show with a decrease in folks who’ve already watched 2.5 Men during the season. I like both shows and am glad to see CBS pair them up.
Oooo…Nice job “Bang Theory”…I’ve seen a couple of episodes…fuuny show…still not in my time slot of TV time…
The only tv show I watch until fall programming returns is tonite in the “Kitchen”
Hey Mark, the CW numbers from pifeedback:
One Tree Hill (Viewers: 1.25 million; A18-49: 0.5/ 2)
Gossip Girl (Viewers: 905,000; A18-49: 0.4/ 1)
Haha Robert is a little fiesty today! Meow!
(I guess Tuesdays are always tough considering it’s cable ratings day…)
Once again TBBT shows why just CBS gave it (a) a two year renewal and (b) the prime time 9.30pm Monday night slot. Over the next two years, TBBT is only going to get more and more popular and everyone connected with the show deserves success.
I’ve been a fan since the pilot and I’m pleased that I won’t have to worry about whether or not it gets renewed next summer. Which it would have done anyway, being the most funny and inventive comedy on TV anywhere in the world at the present time.
CBS should consider putting TBBT after the Super Bowl and maybe moving 2.5 Men to Wednesday to bolster that lineup. I’ve only seen TBBT a couple of times, and although it was funny at first, it seemed a little like a one-note show. I guesss I’ll give it another chance though, since almost everyone raves about it. Either way, I salute CBS for bucking the trend and sticking with the multi-cam sitcom. Although there’s a lot of good single-cams (including The Office, my favorite show), the formula’s been abused, and most of them don’t seem to have the mega-ratings potential of a Friends or Seinfeld.
While the Office is still my favorite comedy on tv, TBBT is catching up quickly. I started watching the show earlier this year, and it’s great! Glad to see that its ratings are so high, even on the re-runs.
Too bad HIMYM’s not rerunning better, since it’s my favorite of the CBS comedies. :/
Still, great job by TBBT. Interesting to see it improve on TaaHM and whether it’ll continue outperforming it when the new season begins. Great move by CBS, which pretty much shows why it’s probably the strongest network of the bunch (besides maybe Fox).
@Mega64: “Too bad HIMYM’s not rerunning better, since it’s my favorite of the CBS comedies. :/”
I still love HIMYM, even though it hasn’t been shown in my native England for the last two years and I have to watch it online. Even devoted fans of HIMYM would agree that last year was arguably the weakest of their four seasons so far. I’m hoping season 5 won’t be the swansong because the “university angle” could give HIMYM another three years. And I can’t imagine Barney on welfare.
@Matt: “I’ve only seen TBBT a couple of times, and although it was funny at first, it seemed a little like a one-note show. I guess I’ll give it another chance though, since almost everyone raves about it.”
The thing about TBBT is that while the first season was absolutely terrific, unusually for a comedy the second season was stronger than the first season in terms of storylines and character development. TBBT is a show on a rise and as I said earlier, it will only get more and more popular over the next two years to a point where I feel new episodes of TBBT will week-on-week beat new episodes of 2.5 Men (arguably CBS’ ratings benchmark).