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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 4.4/11 | 2.2/6 | 2.0/5 | 1.5/4 | 1.2/3 | 0.6/2 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 3.4/10 | 2.0/6 | 1.8/5 | 1.5/4 | 0.8/2 | 0.7/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 13.26 | 6.64 | 6.20 | 3.86 | 5.10 | 1.52 |
CBS won the night easily with an all-original lineup. As has been the case lately, The Big Bang Theory topped all Monday shows on broadcast with adults 18-49, though as is usually the case Two and a Half Men had more total viewers.
Pending adjustments (see note below about the football game airing locally in San Francisco) in the finals, CBS had its best Monday in some time with How I Met Your Mother and Two and a Half Men hitting season highs with adults 18-49, and Accidentally on Purpose and The Big Bang Theory matching season highs.
But aside from the potential for adjustment, for now it was CBS's best Monday delivery in households, viewers and adults 25-54 since February 2, 2009, in adult 18-49 since January 12, 2009 and in adults 18-34 since February 12, 2007.
But my guess is HIMYM and AOP will likely be adjusted down in the finals. We'll know around 4:30pm ET.
NBC's The Sing Off got off to a mediocre start, with fewer watching in the second hour than in the first. But at least the folks at NBC who claimed The Jay Leno Show would fare better versus reruns can do a little fist-pump. At 10pm, Leno easily bested a repeat of Castle, though was far, far in the rear view mirror of a new episode of CSI: Miami.
I'm not finding fault with Castle though. A new Christmas special and a new airing of Find My Family were hardly watched leading into Castle.
On FOX a new airing of Lie To Me also was lackluster coming out of a rerun of House.
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 (1.0/4) in Nielsen's 24 local markets with People Meters.
- At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.6/3 in 18-49 in local people meters) topped CBS's LATE LATE SHOW (0.5/3).
Note on Monday Night Football: The game aired locally on the San Francisco market on CBS (it aired on an independent station in Arizona) and essentially the last hour or so of the game ran between 8pm-9pm in the San Francisco market, and given the way the fast affiliate results are calculated (see definition below) those 8p-9pm numbers may have boosted the results for How I Met Your Mother and Accidentally on Purpose.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 3.9/11 | 10.22 |
| NBC | The Sing Off (premiere) | 2.4/6 | 7.43 | |
| FOX | House (R) | 2.1/6 | 6.70 | |
| ABC | Jennifer Hudson: I'll Be Home For Christmas | 1.2/3 | 5.56 | |
| CW | Vampire Diaries (R) | 0.7/2 | 1.62 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Accidentally on Purpose | 3.3/9 | 9.33 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Two and a Half Men | 5.2/13 | 16.33 |
| FOX | Lie To Me | 2.2/6 | 6.59 | |
| ABC | Find My Family | 1.4/3 | 5.44 | |
| NBC | The Sing Off (premiere) | 2.2/6 | 6.39 | |
| CW | Vampire Diaries (R) | 0.6/2 | 1.418 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 5.6/14 | 15.56 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami | 4.1/11 | 14.06 |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.5/4 | 4.77 | |
| ABC | Castle (R) | 1.1/3 | 4.30 |
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All numbers are Live+SD.
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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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Holy shit. Two and a Half Men and TBBT both over 5 again! CBS’s Monday has become Must See TV, much like NBC’s Thursday lineup in the 90s.
Im sure NBC is throwing a party with Leno getting a 1.5 and beating a Castle repeat. Please, how sad!!
WTG HIMYM – that has to be a season high, right?
All my favourite comedies are up (well, TBBT is flat). I love CBS, the best channel at the moment.
Sean, football aired on CBS in San Francisco.
Also, go HIMYM!
Shame about Castle being below Leno this week but the point about the weak lead ins and competing against a new episode of CSI Miami are realistic.
I doubt ABC is expecting great numbers from the repeats so it will be good to see how things pick up with the return of new episodes in Jan.
With TBBT doing better than all the other comedies, why didn’t CBS up their order of episodes to 24 too?
The Vampire Diaries week marathon is starting off pretty good.
Dennis – funny thing about that is that Les Moonves was responsible for bringing a few of those must see shows to NBC in the early/mid 90s before he moved to be head of CBS, rueing what he had done for NBC. Now look at what he’s done.
Frick/John, The Big Bang Theory does have an order of 24 episodes. Ausiello reported it incorrectly. Men, HIMYM, and BBT all have 24 episode orders.
Not like Leno had much of a lead-in either. Anyway, wasn’t Castle supposed to be ‘consistent’, and not need any lead-in?
Castle has benefited from having only one other scripted show to run against–TNT has really cut into its aging audience with MOACA. Leno is Castle’s best friend. Only fair it gets to win sometimes.
Good. I’ll add that to my DVD collection.
I really don’t think Castle has anything to worry about, reruns I believe are pure advertisement revenue, seeing as the show has already been paid for.
HIMYM, on the other hand, somehow continues to raise in ratings, even with this season starting off the slowest (read: slightly un-enjoyable) of the four+ they’ve had so far. Let’s hope their musically enhanced 100th episode doesn’t signal the jumping of the shark for this great sitcom. Bring on the mother already!
And there isn’t anything else to be said about TBBT. Obviously, putting it in the 8:30(cst) timeslot has been nothing but profitable for CBS, but the show has continued its stride, and hasn’t let up at all this season. Here’s to an even better second half!
who’s surprised that the Sing-Off didn’t take off? At least it did better than trauma, and beat ABC’s “Find my Family”, not to mention tying with Lie to Me (which has proved once and for all that it is totally dependent on House).
Jon, Sing Off tied Lie To Me at 9pm w/18-49 and it had fewer viewers, but I do agree LTM is lead-in dependent.
I’m proud of Castle for doing as well as it is, considering its reruns are in the midst of everyone else’s new episodes and considering ABC’s terrible leading programming.
Thanks for the info, TVBTN.
CBS is total crapola. It’s tragic how many people watch it, especially on Mondays.
NBC is great when it’s not shoving crappy reality down your throat.
ABC is mediocre, and mostly annoying.
FOX is probably the best of the networks.
Leno only picked up, what, 0.2 this week? I think Leno is up against double repeats next week, so we’ll finally see what it does vs. no competition.
Lie to Me now does no better than Fringe, despite drastically easier competition. I love Shawn Ryan, but Fox should not bring LtM back next year.
The Sing Off: Yet another failure for nice-guy reality judging shows? Do audiences only watch them for trainwrecks and the savaging thereof?
Castle’s lack of rerun power indicates A) limited future upside, and B) another problem for renewal. I still think ABC’s situation is dire enough that it gets another season – but scheduled on another night, and subsequently murdered.
Castle has already been paid for? A scripted one hour drama? With first-run demo #’s as low as 2.1? I don’t THINK so.