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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 4.1/10 | 3.9/10 | 3.5/9 | 1.9/5 | 1.5/4 | 1.0/2 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 2.8/8 | 3.6/10 | 3.2/9 | 1.6/4 | 1.8/5 | 1.2/3 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 12.74 | 11.55 | 10.43 | 5.01 | 4.07 | 2.11 |
CBS won the night with adults 18-49 and total audience with solid performances out of its two hour comedy block and CSI: Miami. In a pattern that has been typical for most of the season, The Big Bang Theory led CBS with adults 18-49, while Two and a Half Men was the most-watched program with the broader audience.
FOX topped the night with adults 18-34, with House down around 8% versus last week with adults 18-49 but having its best night with adults 18-34 (where it was the night's top show) since November. 24 dropped another couple of ticks down to a 3.1 adults 18-49 rating.
The Bachelor continues to grow, and its 4.1 adults 18-49 rating was up about 5 percent versus the previous week and a season high. From 9p-10p The Bachelor > Jack Bauer. Castle fans will delight in pretty robust performance for a repeat - the show's best-ever numbers for a repeat.
Over on NBC, Chuck was down another tenth to a 2.4 rating with adults 18-49 and Heroes managed to climb a tenth, back to a 2.0 adults 18-49 rating. In its next-to-last Monday airing in prime-time , The Jay Leno Show was hardly on the map with a 1.1 adult 18-49 rating -- its worst Monday night performance ever -- and less than 4 million viewers..
Life Unexpected held steady in its third week, with the same 1.0 adults 18-49 rating it had last week. But with CW's target demographic of women 18-34, it was down another two-tenths to a 1.7 rating in that demographic.
In Late-Night Local People Meters Monday night:
- Conan O'Brien (0.6/3 in 18-49 in local people meters with an encore telecast) trailed CBS's first-run LATE SHOW (1.0/4) in Nielsen's 25 local markets with People Meters.
- At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.4/2 in 18-49 in local people meters ) trailed CBS's LATE LATE SHOW (0.6/4 with an encore telecast).
Here's a bit more late night info including ABC's Nightline:
Total Viewers A25-54 Rtg A18-49 Rtg
Nightline 4,199,000 1.52 1.19
Leno 3,909,000 1.40 1.10
A25-54 Rtg A18-49 Rtg
Nightline 1.52 1.19
Letterman 1.4 1.14
Tonight Show .83 .68
Details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Sh | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | FOX | House | 4.8/13 | 13.35 |
| ABC | The Bachelor: On The Wings of Love | 3.8/10 | 11.08 | |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 3.7/10 | 9.37 | |
| NBC | Chuck | 2.4/6 | 6.72 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill | 1.0/3 | 2.15 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Accidentally on Purpose | 3.1/8 | 8.53 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Two and a Half Men | 5.1/12 | 16.50 |
| ABC | The Bachelor: On The Wings of Love | 4.4/11 | 12.24 | |
| FOX | 24 | 3.1/7 | 9.76 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 2.0/5 | 4.40 | |
| CW | Life Unexpected | 1.0/2 | 2.07 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 5.4/13 | 15.44 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami | 3.6/10 | 13.303 |
| ABC | Castle (R) | 2.2/6 | 7.96 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.1/3 | 3.91 |
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All numbers are Live+SD.
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Hopefully Chuck will go back up because last night episode was awesome.
PI Feedback has Chuck at a 2.5?
First, Big Bang is really hitting a good stride and uses all the characters well but pairing Penny with Sheldon is always going to be fantastic
Best episode of the season for Chuck last night. Let’s hope the numbers hold off at 2.4 and 2.5 don’t want to drop below 2.4 or 2.3
Must be a difference in rounding, Marc Berman has Chuck at 2.5 demo, same as last week.
The Big Bang Theory is the WORST TV show in history!
(Bazinga!)
Nice work for the quixotic quintet!
Probably won’t be the first or last but could you post the half hour splits for Chuck? Last week we saw increased viewership in the second half. Curious about this week.
Ref Chuck.
One site says one thing and this says another. Is that normal?
Other sites reporting a 2.5 for CHUCK.
yay for Heroes!!!!!!!!!!!
Is that the lowest yet for Leno?
24 under the 10 million, how long ago is that!
I think this should be it’s last season
A little drop for House but still glad they’re solid, and good for Heroes going back to 2.0!
This is good for Chuck, but the real test is how it does after the Olympics. I’m not sure if these ratings will hold. But either way, with what NBC has, I think it’s definitely going to get renewed.
Damn, Castle’s repeat was on pair with its Fall-Original numbers.
Life Unexpected seems to stabilize, hopefully it is here to stay.
“Life Unexpected” and “One Tree Hill” are doing kind of poorly in my opinion. I was really hoping for higher numbers for “Life Unexpected”. “One Tree Hill” seems to be going down a lot in the ratings this season.
Still can’t fully understand the crazy Castle schedule this spring (and really going back to early December with that one new episode sandwiched between a repeat and the Christmas break), but a 2.2 is pretty spiffy for a repeat, isn’t it? Especially one at 10:00.
Assumptions:
- Awful night for Heroes, alright for Chuck
- OTH and LUX are shoe-ins for rewewal
- 24 is neither here or there, so I don’t think it’ll be coming back
- Castle repeat did well, no?
Really happy for Heroes :]
It’ll go up in the Finale too, of course. Chuck was amazing last night as well!
Happpp day
Heroes picked up nearly all of 24′s dropped demo. While both shows should be over this season, is it mean to hope that 24′s weak season doesn’t allow Heroes a reprieve?
Chuck is down, just slightly, but it was also up against a new HIMYM getting 1.6 demo more than a repeat. Those numbers seem solid enough for renewal, though Chuck’s biggest issue this season is not the ratings, but the thematically similar JJ Abrams show NBC has waiting in the wings.