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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 2.2/6 | 2.1/6 | 1.5/4 | 1.4/4 | 1.0/3 | 0.3/1 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 1.5/5 | 1.6/5 | 1.3/4 | 1.4/5 | 0.8/3 | 0.4/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 8.61 | 6.25 | 4.48 | 3.53 | 2.69 | .92 |
Note: Monday Night Football aired on the local ABC affiliates in Chicago and Minnesota, so the ABC numbers will be adjusted in the final numbers more than usual as the viewing for the football game in those local markets will be factored out.
A night of CBS repeats led it to victory on the broadcast networks in both adults 18-49 and total viewers, edging out ABC which aired Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Just like last week, a repeat of Two and a Half Men was the most-watched program on the broadcast networks, and a repeat of The Big Bang Theory was tops with adults 18-49.
A marathon of Community repeats between 8p-10p hardly registered for NBC, and didn't provide much of a lead-in for a repeat of the The Jay Leno Show, which sunk below a 1.0 rating and NBC was behind Univision for the night.
FOX came in third place with repeats of House and Lie To Me
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Shr | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | ABC | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | 1.8/5 | 6.05 |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother (R) | 1.8/5 | 6.05 | |
| NBC | Community (R) | 1.1/3 | 3.28 | |
| FOX | House (R) | 1.6/4 | 4.83 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill (R) | 0.4/1 | 1.15 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Accidentally on Purpose (R) | 1.6/4 | 5.78 |
| NBC | Community (R) | 1.0/3 | 2.43 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Two and a Half Men (R) | 2.7/7 | 11.05 |
| ABC | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | 2.1/6 | 6.44 | |
| FOX | Lie To Me (R) | 1.4/4 | 4.53 | |
| NBC | Community (R) | 0.9/2 | 2.08 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl (R) | 0.3/1 | 0.68 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory (R) | 3.0/8 | 9.96 |
| NBC | Community (R) | 0.9/2 | 1.97 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami (R) | 2.2/6 | 9.42 |
| ABC | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | 2.2/6 | 6.25 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show (R) | 0.9/3 | 3.21 |
You can see TV ratings from other recent Overnight ratings reports here.
All numbers are Live+SD.
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Kinda surprised Community FELL every half hour….although on the bright side, Jay almost doubled his total viewership from the 9:30 lead-in!
Charlie Sheen got arrested in Colorado. OMFG… why do people like that person?
NBC was trumped by Univision? That’s not a good sign
Finally ABC has a not so bad night. They won with adults 18-34! Smart to air a movie instead of Find My Family.
Football was shown in Chicago and in Minnesota on ABC. The ABC numbers will drop by a lot in the finals.
A decent demo for the broadcast premiere of PIRATES OF THE ACARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END.
Not sure why ‘Gossip Girl’ dropped so precipitously at 9 pm, losing about 400K viewers. Must have been an episode already repeated too many times.
TBBT’s repeat still got a 3.0 amidst a very low rated Monday night, wow!
House’s reruns not doing that well
God I love CBS Mondays. Two and a Half Men is so awesome.
I don’t think Monday night is the night for Community.
Todd: good catch.
@Anonymous
“although on the bright side, Jay almost doubled his total viewership from the 9:30 lead-in!”
Really now? Let’s see…at 9:30 Community had 1.97 million viewers. If we double that number the result would be 3.94 million viewers. Jay Lamo pulled a VERY impressive 3.21 million viewers. Okay, 3.94 million minus 3.21 million is .73 million viewers SHORT OF DOUBLING his lead-in viewership. So actually he DID NOT “almost double” his 9:30 lead-in. To be exact his viewership grew by 37% over Community (hardly anything to crow about as Community’s numbers were horrid anyway). I can’t for the life of me figure out why so many people put on their rose-colored glasses and keep on drinking the Jay Lamo kool-aid. He is not funny nor is his show. NBC’s little experiment is a DISASTER. Oh, and by the way, I was NOT being sarcastic when I said Lamo pulled a very impressive 3.21 million viewers. I am quite impressed that that many people could possibly be so comedically-challenged as to suffer through any JLS episode, let alone a repeat.
Fans of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dollhouse will note the irony of last night’s Big Bang Theory episode.
That episode featured Summer Glau who, at the time the BBT episode aired, was starring in TSCC. Since then, TSCC has been cancelled, Glau was set up to guest star in Dollhouse, and Dollhouse has also been cancelled… Pretty sad, huh?
olebud: actually not quite, viewership grew by almost 63% over Community (though indeed, not doubling) and not the 37% you cite.
You would measure increases over Community as a percentage OF Community, not of Jay Leno Show, so the math is:
(3.21-1.97)/1.97
Olebud…
Nice little temper tantrum there.
It really must be important for you to be right all the time. But really, you simply sound like an arrogant and condescending jerk!
Still, I can’t help but agree that Leno in primetime is a disaster.
Those Community numbers don’t give me much hope that Parks And Rec will find many new fans tonight…
Robert,
Thank you for pointing out my error. I calculated it a little differently but failed to subtract my result (.37 from 1.00) which had I done that would have given the correct answer, which as you point out, is .63 or 63%).
Tom,
Not a temper tantrum at all, I am just sick of hearing everyone go on and on about how great Jay Leno is, how he is the future of television, how he outperforms repeats, yada yada yada. Enough already. I am entitled to my opinion of Lamo and his show and thank God I live in a country where I have the right to express it. Although I am NOT a jerk, I applaud you exercising your right to have an opinion and express it, which is all I was doing in the first place.
The128Boy, I am never optimistic for performance of repeats (unless they are on CBS), but if there’s any good news for the P&R mini-marathon it’s that unlike Community it isn’t up against Monday Night Football OR repeat comedies on CBS.
Not that NCIS is any slouch in reruns either, but at 9p CBS is airing the Kennedy Center Honors, probably not as much of an 18-49 draw as “Two and a Half Men” and “The Big Bang Theory”
At 9:30p ABC is airing a new “Better Off Ted”, I think the P&R rerun has a chance to beat it!
Sheen is scum, but like Baldwin, people like him on camera but not off. Eventually, his bad press will result in bad ratings. It takes people awhile to “get it.”
it’s kind of bizarre to me why NBC would do this. Four back to back episodes of the same show seems like it would lose viewers. I couldn’t imagine watching four episodes of Community in a row. If anything, they should have had an hour of Community then an hour of parks, or Community/Parks than something else in the 9 hour. NBC, you baffle me.