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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 4.1/11 | 2.3/6 | 2.2/6 | 1.5/4 | 1.5/4 | 1.2/3 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 3.2/9 | 1.9/5 | 1.5/4 | 1.6/5 | 1.2/3 | 1.6/5 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 12.20 | 8.54 | 7.45 | 3.99 | 5.67 | 2.405 |
Please note local preemptions due to Monday Night Football: the game aired locally in the Baltimore market on the CBS affiliate and in Green Bay and Milwaukee on the ABC affiliates. Any viewing for the game on those affiliates would be counted in the numbers below, but that viewing will be factored out in the national final numbers.
Another holiday Monday night mish-mash of old holiday specials, new holiday specials, repeats and new episodes. CBS ran an all-new lineup and dominated, with "The Big Bang Theory" the night's top show with adults 18-49 with its highest 18-49 ratings ever - at least in the preliminaries. "Two and a Half Men" trailed BBT by .6 in the demo, but it was still it's best 18-49 performance of the season.
I can hear the cries of "the weakest link!" with regard to "Accidentally On Purpose" at 8:30 though. It dropped off a bit from a strong 8pm performance from "How I Met Your Mother."
"Find My Family" is no longer looking like such a good lead-in for "Castle." "Castle" was down 15% with adults 18-49 from its last new airing on 11/23, and will likely drop off another 10th or so in the finals due to "Monday Night Football" on the ABC affiliates in Green Bay and Milwaukee.
Against new competition and "Men With a Certain Age" on TNT (there are no early overnight numbers for cable shows, so we won't see those numbers until this afternoon, sorry) "The Jay Leno" show had its biggest Monday audience since October 19 and was up .1 with adults 18-49 against new episodes on ABC and CBS (last week it did worse against repeats.).
In Late-Night Local People Meters Monday night:
- Conan O'Brien (0.9/4 in 18-49 in local people meters) trailed CBS's LATE SHOW (1.1/4) in Nielsen's 24 local markets with People Meters.
- At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.5/3 in 18-49 in local people meters) trailed CBS's LATE LATE SHOW (0.7/4).
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 3.5/10 | 9.15 |
| ABC | Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (R) | 2.7/7 | 8.04 | |
| FOX | Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special | 2.4/6 | 8.86 | |
| NBC | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (R) | 1.5/4 | 6.59 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill | 1.2/3 | 2.59 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Accidentally on Purpose | 2.9/8 | 8.30 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Two and a Half Men | 5.1/12 | 15.16 |
| FOX | Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special | 2.3/6 | 8.22 | |
| ABC | Find My Family | 1.8/4 | 5.90 | |
| NBC | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (R) | 1.6/4 | 5.76 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 1.2/3 | 2.22 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 5.7/13 | 14.72 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami | 3.8/10 | 12.94 |
| ABC | Castle | 2.3/6 | 8.41 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.3/3 | 4.71 |
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Definitions:
*Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
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CBS FTW, All of them are up!
Argh. Castle was so good last night. I wish it would see bigger numbers.
Castle fans, I’m sorry it seems DWTS really was saving it
I wonder how many more people thought that this week’s episode of Castle was a repeat after the repeat that was on last week.
Wow at TBBT! I love that show, glad it’s beating 2.5 men.
Shame about Castle though.
Leno may of taken hit with the premiere of Men of a Certain age
i’m surprised carrie underwood did so well congrats
looks like find my family is tanking….Castle looks good and picked up alot of what family lost!
@Castle Fan
get the bingo card out
I wonder if Men of a Certain Age affected CSI: Miami and Castle as both were below average.
Last night epi of Gossip Girl was the best of the series and it deserved more viewers.
Real shame about Castle. Find My Family was never going to be a legitimate lead in, and sadly it’s not a show that can stand on its own two feet I don’t think (despite my love for it).
As for Accidentally On Purpose, they didn’t even carry it here last night, instead opting for (an insanely annoying) 30 minute infomercial.
That was my thinking, Castle Fan. I half expected it would be down a bit, as people would tune in to the repeat last week and think “oh, the Christmas break for the series has begun, I’ll come back in January”. Don’t think it had to do with the lead-ins at all, as I think most Castle watchers while DWTS was the lead-in were watching almost IN SPITE of the lead-in.
Guess we’ll ALL have to come back after the new year now to see if it rebounds. I think it will. Still not worried.
Jon – CSI & Castle were both repeats last week, I’m guessing that had something to do with it
Anyone else think they should trial maybe for at least one week, HIMYM at 9pm, just to give it a try, and trial TAAHM on Wednesday to try and boost Wednesday comedies.
I would like to know men of a Certain Age numbers
HOLY CRAP at the Big Bang Theory!!!!
Accidentally On Purpose has fallen below a 3.0 — That baby may never be born.
That sucks about Castle. It’s going to go down even more because of the football game.
Such a good episode too.
OMG. Look at TBBT. Huge numbers.