Dancing With the Stars took Monday night’s top spot once again, even with fan-favorite dance team Misty May-Treanor and Maksim Chermkovskiy officially out of the competition (she hurt her Achilles tendon). The series suffered a mere 2 percent decline from last week’s performance show, attracting an average of 18.8 million viewers, according to overnight data, and winning the night for ABC. Dancing’s follow-up, Boston Legal, also performed well, attracting 9.5 million viewers in the 10 p.m. hour (a 50 percent decline from its lead-in, but still above its last-season average of 8.9 million).
Meanwhile, CBS’ Monday night comedy block held steady against Dancing: The Big Bang Theory (9.3 million), How I Met Your Mother (9.0 million), and Two and a Half Men (13.9 million) experienced slight increases over last week’s averages. Only the Eye’s freshman comedy, Worst Week fared a little, well, worse: Ratings were down 515,000 from last week, topping out at 8.8 million. CBS won the 10 p.m. hour, however, with CSI: Miami‘s 13.6 million viewers stealing the spotlight from both Boston Legal and NBC’s Life (5.8 million).
Life wasn’t NBC’s only letdown, though. Chuck continued to struggle, averaging 5.9 million viewers at 8 p.m. (an 11 percent decline from last Monday’s disappointing premiere), and Heroes tallied just 8.2 million at 9 p.m., a loss of about a million viewers from last week, and well below last year’s 11.6 million average.
Lastly, Fox’s 8 p.m. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and 9 p.m. Prison Break kept pace with previous weeks this season, earning 5.6 and 5.4 million viewers, respectively, though both shows are trailing their previous-year averages (9.8 million and 7.5 million) when they aired in opposite time slots (Terminator at 9 p.m. and Break at 8 p.m.).
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A factor in NBC’s lower ratings at least this week might be due to the fact that the NBC affiliates owned by LIN TV in several cities were pulled off Time Warner Cable last Thursday because they weren’t able to reach a transmission agreement. I’m in Austin, Texas and have no access to NBC now except online.
Both Heroes and Chuck are nerd shows – I bet their online views are a higher than the others. They should start incorporating these ratings somehow.
I sure hope NBC is factoring in online/TIVO numbers into Chuck’s ratings. Seriously if it gets cancelled, I’m not investing in another show. I’ll only watch The Office and Arrested Development reruns.
It may not account for the decline last week, but we had no NBC shows last night here in New Orleans, b/c of Monday night football.
It’s unfortunate that Chuck is not getting the great ratings it should be. At least we’re getting a full season’s worth of episodes.
I can’t believe people would choose to watch the DWTS drivel over Chuck. Record DWTS and watch later without commercials and all the “live” bs. Chuck is hilarious and interesting and I’ll be so bummed if it’s canceled.
life better not get cancelled
I was hoping Chuck’s rating would go up, given that last week’s episode was previewed a week earlier online and it was going up against a new Gossip Girl. It seems to not have mattered…
How do so many people watch Big Bang Theory? Even for a sitcom it’s terrible. The fact that less people watch the hilarious ensemble cast in How I Met Your Mother is amazingly disappointing.
NOOOOO! I love Chuck-it’s my favorite show! This show has some of the best lines and chemistry on television (Chuck and Sarah are MUCH steamier than McSteamy and Grey). Come on people–watch it! I can’t keep the show on all by myself….
I love Chuck too..I’m can’t believe it didn’t do so well in the ratings! I love the comedy/Action combo.
Can I just say that I love CHUCK! But I also love BIG BANG THEORY. Maybe the reason the ratings are down is because people are tuning into watch BIG BANG THEORY. They are on at the same time but you can’t watch BIG BANG THEORY online-at least I haven’t found a way to yet. CHUCK is great and I can watch it on NBC later. If I had to choose between the two I’d pick CHUCK for sure.
It’s possible some of the loss of viewers came because those of us in the Denver area didn’t get to watch it! I raced home to watch Chuck, only to find it wasn’t being shown due to a senatorial debate. I’ll have to catch Chuck online this week.
Terminator better not get cancelled. Darn MNF ruins everything.