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| Rating: Adults 18-49 | 1.7/6 | 1.6/5 | 1.3/4 | 0.9/3 | 0.3/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 8.95 | 4.87 | 3.72 | 3.65 | .74 |
Not really much to see here, but CBS won the night just barely edging out ABC in adults 18-49, but with a considerable edge in total viewers. "CSI: NY" and another repeat airing of "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" topped viewing with adults 18-49.
Both "Criminal Minds" and "CSI: NY" had pretty healthy total viewing levels for repeats.
Happy Holidays!
Full Details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Shr | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | ABC | How The Grinch Stole Christmas (R) | 2.1/7 | 6.76 |
| FOX | Glee (R) | 1.2/4 | 3.58 | |
| CBS | A Home For The Holidays With Faith Hill | 1.1/4 | 6.39 | |
| NBC | Mercy (R) | 0.8/3 | 3.66 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill (R) | 0.3/1 | 0.91 | |
| 8:30 | ABC | The Middle (R) | 1.8/6 | 5.46 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Criminal Minds (R) | 2.0/6 | 10.23 |
| ABC | Modern Family (R) | 1.9/6 | 5.56 | |
| FOX | Glee (R) | 1.4/4 | 3.86 | |
| NBC | Mercy (R) | 0.7/2 | 2.72 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl (R) | 0.2/1 | 0.51 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | The Middle (R) | 1.5/5 | 4.34 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: NY (R) | 2.1/7 | 10.22 |
| ABC | Cougar Town (2 Repeat episodes 10p-11p) | 1.2/4 | 3.56 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.1/3 | 4.58 |
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The Middle repeats amazing! WOW!! Cougar Town did horrible at 10. Eastwick did better than that.
Happy Holidays everyone!
hm….mercy is dead
The Middle is a keeper. It reminds me so much of Malcolm in the Middle, another amazing show. TM actually got me watching MitM again.
Okay, but did anyone see the COMEDYS (Cougar Town) at 10pm & 10:30pm. ON ABC. and The Middle after Modern Family (only it was a repeat).
With all these reruns of The Middle more and more people will check out the show and then the show will get a second season I hope.
i have a bad feeling about cougar town’s second season prospects…and i wonder if nbc is desperate enough to renew mercy…
Mark Berman has Grinch as a “loser.” It beat CM, yet CM is a winner! Biased, much?
Also..how the hell does Leno manage to get a 1.1 against repeats?
again leno lost
is it a series low for jay leno show??
George, I think that is a series low for Leno. Its lowest that I could remember was a 1.2 so yea that 1.1 is a series low.
Didn’t expect the Poinsettia Bowl (Utah vs Cal) to be such a draw.
I was paying attention to hockey, though.
Leno is apparently lead-in dependent.
Berman doesn’t have Grinch as a loser. He doesn’t have it as anything!
not bad for Glee
Great for The Middle, Love the show hoping for a season 2
I do find it interesting how “The Middle” out-repeats “Glee”.
Kinda reinforces my thoughts that “Glee” is a tad too overhyped for its own good.
Wow! ABC’s best was “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”! They’d have been better off showing the final three episodes of “Eastwick” (in order).
Berman’s winners/losers list tends be pretty generous for CBS shows, but that’s because he isn’t one of the “the demo is everything” people.
Dee, no. Eastwick hasn’t seen a 2.0 adults 18-49 rating since like its second episode. Last week it was a 1.3. so, again, no.