TV Ratings Tuesday: Against CBS Repeats, NBC Wins Lead By Biggest Loser

Scoreboard
Rating: Adults 18-49	3.1/8	2.6/7	2.5/6	2.4/6	1.5/4	0.5/1
Rating: Adults 18-34	2.5/7	1.6/5	2.6/7	1.4/4	1.7/5	0.6/2
Total Viewers (million)	8.446	10.720	6.502	12.137	3.758	1.138

Against CBS and CW repeats, NBC topped the Tuesday night ratings lead by Biggest Loser's 3.7 adults 18-49 rating. Charlie Brown fans rejoice as Great Pumpkin beats So You Think You Can Dance.

With CBS repeats and the strength of It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, ABC has its best Tuesday in a while. Could a regular Peanuts series be far behind? Sadly, as it has much of the season, Dancing with the Stars again got the rock, down 15% in the 18-49 demo from last week to a 2.9 rating. Against a Good Wife repeat the forgotten finally won its hour, up 5% to a still pitiful 2.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demo.

While NBC did win the night, and Biggest Loser was the top rated show in the 18-49 demo, the show was still down 5% from last week. The Jay Leno Show performed (flat vs. last week) as NBC publicly expected, tieing a CBS repeat, unlike Monday when it got crushed.

Fox's So You Think You Can Dance was flat in the 18-49 demo vs. its last Tuesdays airing. It shares few potential viewers with the NCIS duo, and failed to benefit from their repeats.

CBS and CW were entirely in repeats for the night.

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