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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 4.0/10 | 3.9/10 | 3.2/8 | 1.8/4 | 1.4/4 | 1.2/3 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 3.8/10 | 2.9/8 | 2.1/6 | 1.6/5 | 1.4/4 | 1.6/4 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 10.13 | 11.89 | 15.33 | 4.90 | 3.59 | 2.49 |
House led the night with adults 18-49 with a 5.1 rating and has 12.79 million overall average viewers and Lie To Me had a 3.0 rating with adults 18-49, up 25 percent from its last original telecast on 10/26 (note, for that telecast its lead-in was not House, but So You Think You Can Dance). FOX led the night with adults 18-49, narrowly edging out CBS.
After House, The Big Bang Theory was next with adults 18-49 with a 4.5 rating and 12.4 million overall average viewers.
Heroes dropped to a 2.3 rating -- it's lowest ever for an original episode. The Jay Leno Show slipped below 4 million viewers, no doubt giving the executives at Gray Television more fuel for blaming Jay Leno for its poor results.
Dancing with the Stars still has some legs in it (wannabe program schedulers should take heed and keep it on their Monday & Tuesday schedules for the spring). Although it was under a 4.0 rating in both hours, it still averaged a 3.5 rating with adults 18-49 for the two hours along with 17.64 million average viewers from 8p-10p.
We'll have to see if Castle drops further in the final numbers (last week it held steady from the preliminary overnight numbers) between the minute or so of Dancing with the Stars overrun and the Monday Night Football game broadcasting locally on the ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh (thanks to commenter J.R. Herbaugh for providing that information), but it was up versus last week. I think it likely to go down at least a 10th (which would make it flat vs. last week) due to the football game but we'll know around 5pm ET.
Note: earlier, I incorrectly headlined this post that Castle was down week over week. It wasn't.
Here are some ratings notes on last night's One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl.
In Late-Night Local People Meters Monday night:
- Conan O'Brien (0.8/4 in 18-49 in local people meters) trailed CBS's LATE SHOW (1.0/4) in Nielsen's 24 local markets with People Meters.
- At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.4/3 in 18-49 in local people meters) finished behind CBS's LATE LATE SHOW (0.6/4).
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | FOX | House | 5.1/13 | 12.79 |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 3.5/9 | 8.96 | |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 3.4/9 | 17.29 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 2.3/6 | 5.35 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill | 1.2/3 | 2.67 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Accidentally on Purpose | 3.0/7 | 8.20 |
| 9:00 | FOX | Lie To Me | 3.0/7 | 7.47 |
| CBS | Two and a Half Men | 4.4/11 | 14.12 | |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 3.7/9 | 17.98 | |
| NBC | Trauma | 1.8/4 | 5.38 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 1.2/3 | 2.31 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 4.5/11 | 12.41 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami | 4.0/11 | 13.83 |
| ABC | Castle | 2.5/7 | 10.72 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.2/3 | 3.97 |
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Looks like a new low for Heroes (if I’m not mistaken) at a 2.3. Ouch.
NBC should just give up.
Accidentally’s retention out of HIMYM has gotten better same with Lie to me out of House. FOX should give a full season to Lie to Me any day now. Trauma continues its burn off and hopefully the drama will get to finish all episodes bu December so Chuck can return Jan.
What were the ratings for the George Lopez talk show (TBS)? Since it was the premier of the show I wonder if a lot of people tuned in to check it out, hurting ratings on other channels.
If Castle gets cancelled I will die.
(Literally. Somehow, because I frequent this site, my girlfriend will blame me for its demise.)
castle is increased: last week was 2.4 with 9.60.
This is week is 10.72 with 2.5
I wonder how that threesome helped out Gossip Girl’s ratings last night.
My heart bleeds for heroes.
You know, people say Jay Leno in primetime is bad for scripted programming.
But imagine how Castle would be doing without him.
Actually, if it was up against just ONE more scripted show, it’d probably be canceled by now.
Castle will likely drop a tick to 2.4 when final numbers are released. Consistent numbers compared to other ABC shows.
Any more lower on AOP & it may be cancelled.
Not trying to be a retentionista, or use any of the cancelled-television bingo phrases, but Lie to me lost 5 million viewers–3 million of which were in the demo.
Last year Fringe was pulling 9-10 million out of House, and keeping 80% of the demo. I think that the higher ups must see this–surely a Fringe/Lie to me swap is coming.
That’s a season high for OTH, and GG gets beaten again.
Did DWTS have overrun as Castle was up as was CSI: Miami although the crossover had an effect.
“Lie to Me” isn’t losing half the lead-in audience anymore, so that’s good.
Was The CW preempted somewhere?
5506 – I already know what will happen. Accidentally will finish its 18 episodes by February and ROE will return to the 8:30 monday slot to likely better numbers and better retention. AOP wont be pulled, rather it will suffer the same fate as Worst Week and The Class.
And for all you Castle fans, the series real test in ratings is how the show will do once it begins airing post The Bachelor. Thats when ABC will see how the series can hold up on its own. Same with Forgotten, however Forgotten will likely have a worse drop due to it’s lower rated lead in.
Darn, new low for Heroes. It may be because of the focus on Parkman this last episode, Greg Grunberg isn’t a good enough actor to carry a storyline, and opposite Zachary Quinto he seems even worse.
J.R. Herbaugh – FOX should be letting us know their midseason plans any day now, which should include a full season for Lie to Me somehwere in the mix.
Hopefully Castle doesn’t drop below a 2.4 when the finals are in. DWTS overrun doesn’t seem to play as much a factor this season as it did last season. In the key demo that is.
I’m not sure how big the football game was this week though.