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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 2.4/7 | 2.1/6 | 1.4/4 | 1.4/4 | 1.3/4 | 0.3/1 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 1.7/5 | 1.9/6 | 1.4/5 | 1.2/4 | 0.8/3 | 0.3/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 8.18 | 6.78 | 3.66 | 4.49 | 5.03 | .80 |
With an all-rerun lineup, CBS won the night both with adults 18-49 and with overall viewers, and even in repeats The Big Bang Theory was CBS' best show with adults 18-49, while Two and a Half Men reeled in the most viewers.
NBC's The Sing Off did about as well as it did in last Monday's premiere averaging a 2.3 rating with adults 18-49 and fueled NBC to a victory for the night on the broadcast networks with adults 18-34. Notably, that 2.3 rating between 8pm-10pm was the best 18-49 ratings for the slot since September 28, and the biggest overall audience between 8pm-10pm since September 14. That doesn't reflect very well on Trauma or Heroes. Will things be any better with Chuck?
As ever, The Jay Leno Show couldn't beat a repeat of CSI: Miami, though it easily bested repeat of Castle. But Castle's lead-in Find My Family hit another series low with adults 18-49 and has sustained consecutive ratings losses every week since its premiere.
In Late-Night Local People Meters Monday night:
- Conan O'Brien (1.1/4 in 18-49 in local people meters) topped CBS's LATE SHOW (0.9/4) 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) defeated CBS's LATE LATE SHOW (0.4/2).
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | How I Met Your Mother (R) | 1.8/5 | 5.71 |
| NBC | The Sing Off | 2.2/7 | 7.12 | |
| ABC | I Want a Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown (R) | 1.8/5 | 5.85 | |
| FOX | House (R) | 1.6/5 | 4.91 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill (R) | 0.3/1 | 0.91 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Accidentally on Purpose (R) | 1.7/5 | 5.43 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Two and a Half Men (R) | 3.1/8 | 10.74 |
| NBC | The Sing Off | 2.3/6 | 7.38 | |
| FOX | Lie To Me (R) | 1.3/3 | 4.06 | |
| ABC | Find My Family | 1.2/3 | 4.83 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl (R) | 0.3/1 | 0.68 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory (R) | 3.3/9 | 9.95 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami (R) | 2.4/7 | 8.62 |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.6/4 | 5.84 | |
| ABC | Castle (R) | 1.0/3 | 4.40 |
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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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the sing off was great last night i hope NBC keeps it!
Hm, I thought that House repeated better…
A 3.3 is what TBBT was getting for regular episodes in its first season, so it’s pretty amazing that it got it for a rerun!
I wouldn’t say notably. Look at it’s competition. All reruns. I’m sure both Heroes and Trauma would have boosted numbers from their season averages against those shows. How much, I can’t say.
Well that Christmas episode of BBT from last year was good.
I’m not surprised to see that TBBT did so well last night, especially since they re-aired last year’s Christmas episode which was one of the best of the season…the ending with that awkward Penny/Sheldon hug is fabulous!
Interesting that Sing Off is doing so well…but it really does make the fall NBC line up look that much worse. Not sure what will happen with Chuck…could break out like BBT, hold steady with last year’s average, or slump. I think it will probably be the middle one and if that comes to pass, then a Season 4 looks possible.
One thing that surprised me was the lack of actual Christmas themed specials this week…only ABC made a go of it with Charlie Brown. But then, looking at those ratings it’s not like that was a hugely successful choice.
Reruns and mediocre reality TV. IMHO, anyone who was watching broadcast TV last night really needs to get a hobby. I opted for the Giants-Redskins game on ESPN, but gave up on that by halftime. UUUUUUUUUggglllyyy.
As an aside, those CW #s are some of the worst I’ve ever seen for prime time broadcast programming!
January cant come soon enough!
The_Godfather, I disagree. It is definitely notable, not due to the competition, but due to its being the best performance for the network between 8p-10p in THREE MONTHS.
While Trauma and Heroes likely have fared better than average against reruns, particularly because of Trauma’s poor performance even against some reruns, I’m not so sure the combined Trauma/Heroes would’ve had the best combined 8p-10p average since September.
Yeah, House repeat was weak. House has little room for future growth, though current trend will keep it on the air for years.
Leno not up much with double repeats. Maybe it would slowly improve with a longer repeat season (say Summer) but I continue to think its repeats rating ceiling is only ~.5ish over new episodes.
What do you make of CBS repeats? Mothers slim lead over AoP repeats indicates that the new episode audience for Mother is devoted, such that they have to see the new episode when it airs, whereas most of AoP’s audience will watch whatever comedy CBS airs there.
Leno has been beating the ABC reruns handily lately, but not CBS. We’ll see if that continues (probably will) in the summer.
@Robert or Bill, is there any chance the sing off will get a second season?
Bummer. That was my favortie episode of Castle. I was really hoping it would beat Leno last night. Sad……..
Like it or not, CBS’s crime shows always seem to perform well, even in repeats. Not sure why, since in this day and age there are so many other programming options if you don’t want to watch an “encore” episode of a show (the new fancy term for a ‘repeat’). Thus, I think the execs at ABC and NBC are happy enough when/if their shows come in second against CBS repeats.
Yaaaawwwnn….it looks like Jack Bauer will have to save Monday nights…
… “24″ is getting closer and Mondays once again will have something good about it to look forward to….
Maybe Castle would be a better fit for USA.
House was repeating well until USA started running them all the time then the repeats lost demo numbers which is odd because NCIS has a similar cable disadvantage but gained network audience. Or maybe it was the switch to Mondays. Was House repeating this way when it was on Tuesdays?
I was upset by the move to Mondays when it happened but now I like it because it doesn’t overlap with anything else I watch.
In a few weeks I will have that 24 and Two and a Half Men/Big Bang dilemma. Last time I recorded 24 and saw some of the episodes. This time I might just watch 24 whenever and buy the dvd set since it comes out when the shows are over and then it will be summer when I have more time to watch since school will be out.
Wow Big Bang. Just a repeat of it gets the same numbers a New 30 Rock episode gets. Crazy Stuff lol
I think it helped that last night’s episode of Big Bang was arguably one of the most popular episodes.
“I possess the DNA of Leonard Nimoy? Do you realize what this means? All I need is a healthy ovum and I can grow my own Leonard Nimoy!”
How Jim Parsons didn’t win the Emmy for that line alone is why we all know awards shows are meaningless.
Sounds more like the writers who were snubbed on that, not Jim Parsons.
I am so happy for TBBT! This last episode was so much better than this year’s Christmas episode. This year’s episode was one juvenile, shallow sex joke after another. Very disappointing.