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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 2.5/8 | 2.0/6 | 1.9/6 | 1.5/5 | 1.3/4 | 0.3/1 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 2.0/7 | 2.2/8 | 1.2/4 | 1.2/4 | 1.0/3 | 0.3/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 7.91 | 4.70 | 6.46 | 4.88 | 4.53 | .814 |
The Bachelorette gave up the huge head of steam it had last week and dropped back 18% with adults 18-49 to a 2.8/9 between 8pm and 10pm. I'm sure someone will chime in about how the drop was to be expected given the way the events of the show unfolded. I won't dispute that since I haven't been watching.
Update: it was not a normal episode, but a Bachelorette "Men Tell All" special which commenter 'jennifernaz' describes as "boring time filler."
Either way, The Bachelorette still led ABC to a comfortable margin of victory with both adults 18-49 and viewers.
Otherwise not much to report for another slow summer Monday night of broadcast network television. Last Comic Standing picked up a tenth of an 18-49 ratings point from last week, and Lie To Me was down two-tenths and The Good Guys shed a tenth of an 18-49 ratings point.
As ever, a repeat of The Big Bang Theory was strong for CBS. Its 2.6 rating with adults 18-49 was second only to The Bachelorette.
Late night results are below the primetime table.
Broadcast primetime ratings for Monday, July 26, 2010:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Sh | Viewers (Millions) |
| 8:00 | ABC | The Bachelorette | 2.8/9 | 8.77 |
| FOX | Lie To Me | 1.6/5 | 5.51 | |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother (R) | 1.5/5 | 4.65 | |
| NBC | America's Got Talent (R) | 1.3/4 | 4.72 | |
| CW | 90210 (R) | 0.4/1 | 0.98 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Rules of Engagement (R) | 1.6/5 | 5.24 |
| 9:00 | ABC | The Bachelorette | 2.9/8 | 8.94 |
| CBS | Two and a Half Men (R) | 2.3/7 | 8.26 | |
| NBC | Last Comic Standing | 1.7/5 | 4.47 | |
| FOX | The Good Guys | 1.0/3 | 3.56 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl (R) | 0.3/1 | 0.65 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory (R) | 2.6/7 | 8.20 |
| 10:00 | ABC | 20/20 | 1.8/5 | 6.01 |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.7/5 | 5.47 | |
| CBS | CSI: Miami (R) | 1.6/5 | 6.21 | |
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In Late-Night Metered Markets Monday night:
- "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (3.2/8 in metered-market households) out-delivered CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman" (2.4/6) and ABC's combination of "Nightline (2.8/6) and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (1.4/4) in Nielsen's 56 metered markets.
- In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” 1.0/5; "Late Show," 0.7/3; "Nightline," 1.0/4; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.5/3.
- At 12:35 a.m., "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (1.4/5 in metered-market households) beat CBS's "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (1.2/4). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, "Late Night" (0.6/3 in 18-49) topped "Late Late Show" (0.4/2).
- At 1:35 a.m., Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.9/4 in metered-market households with an encore and a 0.4/3 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
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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. 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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Five and a half million people watched Cal and Gillian have eyesex on Lie to Me? That's nice.
it wasnt a reg ep of Bachelorette – it was “The Men Tell All” which always drops. Last year that show got a 2.7.
Also True Beauty ended last week. 10p was 20/20 – Stories behind The Rose – which was mostly a rerun of the 2 hour special they ran last March
Why does the title of this post mention True Beauty while the table reports ABC aired 20/20 at 10pm last night?
Was Lie to Me down to 1.7 last week? I thought it was still at 1.8. Either way, this slip isn't pretty. It seemed comfortable at 1.8. 1.6 is not so comfortable.
True Beauty wasn't on last night. And The Bachelorette episode wasn't a normal episode. It was the “Men Tell All” special (read: Boring Time Filler).
Most likely an editing error. I assume it is left over from last week's headline and was accidentally left in.
Yep, Julia is correct. I haven't had my coffee yet still and…it shows. That was bad! I have corrected it and added an explanation for anyone who saw it.
Again, headline was a mistake, but thanks for the info, I'll add some text about “boring time filler special”
hopefully the last mistake :-/ It was down two-tenths and I've corrected the text.
Poor Lie to Me. :'(
the CW might as well just run some infomercials at this point.
Ha! I didn't think you would actually mention me in the post.