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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 1.8/5 | 1.8/5 | 1.8/5 | 1.4/4 | 1.2/4 | 0.3/1 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 2.0/6 | 1.7/5 | 1.2/4 | 1.2/4 | 1.0/3 | 0.3/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 4.266 | 4.881 | 6.311 | 4.217 | 4.876 | .859 |
Univision, ABC and CBS finished in a three-way tie with adults 18-49, with Univision leading with adults 18-34, and CBS winning the most viewers of all ages.
Bachelor Pad dropped 14% from its premiere to a 1.9/6 rating with adults 18-49 and 5.44 million viewers between 8pm-10pm. Dating in the Dark dropped 11% from its premiere to a 1.6 rating with adults 18-49, tying a series low, but it still won the 10pm hour with adults 18-49 and handily won with adults 18-34.
Sadly, the night's only original scripted offering, Lie To Me fared little better. It was down 11% from its last original episode two weeks ago to a 1.6 rating with adults 18-49.
Repeats of Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory led the night both with adults 18-49 and viewers of all ages.
Broadcast primetime ratings for Monday, August 16, 2010:
late night results are below the primetime data.
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Sh | Viewers (Millions) |
| 8:00 | ABC | Bachelor Pad | 1.7/6 | 5.39 |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother (R) | 1.7/6 | 5.02 | |
| FOX | House (R) | 1.2/4 | 3.56 | |
| NBC | America's Got Talent (R) | 1.1/3 | 4.51 | |
| CW | 90210 (R) | 0.3/1 | 0.96 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Rules of Engagement (R) | 1.9/6 | 5.38 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Two and a Half Men (R) | 2.4/7 | 8.35 |
| ABC | Bachelor Pad | 2.0/6 | 5.49 | |
| FOX | Lie To Me | 1.6/5 | 4.89 | |
| NBC | America's Got Talent (R) | 1.1/3 | 4.51 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl (R) | 0.3/1 | 0.76 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory (R) | 2.5/7 | 8.01 |
| 10:00 | ABC | Dating in the Dark | 1.6/4 | 3.76 |
| CBS | CSI: Miami (R) | 1.3/4 | 5.56 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.3/4 | 5.18 |
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In Late-Night Metered Markets Monday night:
• "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (2.5/6 in metered-market households with an encore telecast) out-delivered CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman" (2.3/6 with an encore) and ABC's combination of "Nightline (2.6/6) 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 with an encore,” 0.7/3 with an encore; "Late Show," 0.7/3 with an encore; "Nightline," 0.9/4; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.6/3.
• At 12:35 a.m., "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (1.1/4 in metered-market households with an encore) trailed CBS's "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (1.2/4 with an encore). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, "Late Night" (0.5/3 in 18-49 with an encore) topped "Late Late Show" (0.4/3 with an encore).
• At 1:35 a.m., Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.8/3 in metered-market households with an encore and a 0.3/3 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
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Definitions:
Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
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.
For more information see Numbers 101 and Numbers 102.
FOX isn’t doing itself any favors by constantly preempting and failing to promote “Lie to me.” I’ve heard many people say they didn’t even know it was still on. Get it together, FOX!
Dating in the Dark sure is very young skewing.
What? No bump for the Shield reunion? I’m shocked!
Are you being sarcastic?
Never!
Raise hand. How many remembered Lie to Me was on after House?
Bachelor Pad? Why don’t they tell it like it is, and call it what it is…… “Biggest LOSERS!” The same whining witches that we got sick of on the previous shows. We were lucky enough to be rid of them then. These people need to GO AWAY, and don’t keep coming back again and again! I’ve seen the trailers……and I”m NOT watching!
I watched the repeat of 2 and half men last night, and it was the first time I had seen the show in years. I cannot believe how terrible that show is, and just do not understand the appeal at all. It just feels like the show is 20 years outdated without any subtlety or character development.It was always ridiculous that Charlie was getting all those extremely attractive girls, but now Sheen is looking really old and even kind of sick looking and it is completely unwatchable. Usually, even if a show isn’t for me I can at least understand the appeal to others, but this one I just don’t get.
I also watched Big Bang Theory for the first time ever, and while I would really prefer the laugh track to be turned down, it was much better than I thought it would be coming from the same person behind 2 and half men.
I remembered, but it wasn’t until I looked at 8pm and it wasn’t on.
I read about the big Shield cast reunion on ‘Lie To Me’ but only diehard fans would care about that. Never watched more than an episode or 2 so, without the main star it went straight over my head.
So Univision wins the night? How long before this happens more often?
Univision winning has happened several times this summer. But once summer is over, I think it will be until next summer before it happens again.
So LtM ties its low in the demo and hits a new low viewership-wise. Nice PR work there, Fox.
Hopefully the last three episodes (or at least one of them) will manage to hit the 2.0 mark.
Lie to Me was off for a week and then randomly switched to 9pm. What do these people expect to happen?
I watched the first Season of Lie To Me when i had time and was bored… the first half of the second season was better…but i really loved the last few episodes. It’s a shame FOX airs these amazing episodes in the summer. I hope th next episodes will be as good as the last three or four!
I’m surprised The Bachelor/ette audience did not warm up to the Bachelor Pad, I haven’t seen that show though but I thought it would appeal to them
Lie to Me is always entertaining and rarely has a bad episode. I hope Fox keeps it.
It’s already been renewed.
ah must of missed that post.
lie to me sucks..real crap….its a loser and a ratings failure but rather then developing new hit shows which aint easy as we can see..they’d rather keep renewing a loser like “lie to me”…old farts watch this and not many of them do…i’ll tell you who does not watch this slop…young working women who are the kind of consumers ad agencies would love as viewers.
Whoa, someone hates Lie to Me
I’ve never seen it so I can’t comment. However, one must accept ratings facts… the show is hardly a “failure.” I’m sure it’s got a pricey budget for what it is — but it was pulling high 2 / low 3 demos after House in many of its more recent airings. Oh sure it wasn’t great Retention but we all know that’s not everything to FOX. It’s hardly the ratings disaster Dollhouse (RIP) was but for the summer it’s faring about as well as any other show. I imagine it will perk back up when it’s on during the traditional “sept-may” timeframe again — and FOX will probably then dump it (it’ll never be another HOUSE or BONES and FOX knows it) for a new potential pilot. Odds aren’t in it’s favor for long but again — its’ not really a ratings “loser” more a tad ratings “challenged” just enough to justify renewal but hardly worth praising.