CBS’ Monday night line-up continued to perform solidly with How I Met Your Mother (pictured) tallying its season-high number of 9.8 million viewers, according to
preliminary overnight ratings, even though its lead-in, Big Bang Theory, actually dipped slightly to 9.7 million from last week’s 10 million. At 9 p.m., the Eye’s Two and a Half Men performed strongly (opposite Dancing With the Stars, no less) with 15.2 million viewers, a 4 percent increase from the previous week. And Worst Week, which had been struggling, saw its highest numbers since the premiere with 10.4 million viewers. CBS also dominated the 10 p.m. hour with CSI: Miami’s 15.4 million viewers.
Over at ABC, with the season finale of Dancing With the Stars fast
approaching, the reality competition’s audience grew to 19.7
million viewers last night, 1.1 million viewers more than last week. The increased viewership only added slightly to
Dancing‘s lead-out, Samantha Who?, which earned 11.1 million viewers, a minor increase from last week’s 11 million. Capping off ABC’s night at 10 p.m., Boston Legal averaged 8.5 million eyes, a dip of about 4 percent from last week.
NBC’s schedule continued to see disappointing results with its Heroes and My Own Worst Enemy but actually saw an uptick in viewers for Chuck. Last night’s episode averaged 6.8 million, 600,000 more viewers than last week. But that’s where the good news ends. Heroes dipped to 7.6 million viewers, down 300,000 from last week. Things were even worse for the canceled Enemy, which continued to drop: last night’s episode only reached 4 million, a dip of 7 percent from the previous episode.
While Fox’s two Monday series, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Prison Break, hardly enjoyed blockbuster numbers, they did see slight increases: Chronicles posted 5.3 million, a 100,000 boost from last week, while Break hit 5.9 million, up half a million viewers.
The CW’s Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill both struggled to reach 3 million viewers last night. GG (2.9 million) and OTH (2.7 million) dropped 6 percent and 10 percent, respectively, from the previous week.
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Yay Chuck! Please keep going up.
I’m glad Chuck and HIMYM had better numbers. I hope they get a lot of viewers. Those are my favourite shows this year.
yay for Chuck…. hahahahah for Heroes, just cancel the show all ready NBC, HEROES SUCKS!!!!!!
HIMYM is the best show on tv. It’s about time people start wathing! Legen—wait for it—-dary!
I’m also enjoying Worst Week. I find myself laughing outloud during this show.
WOOOOOO!!!
i wish gossip girl would get more viewers
I’m glad Chuck did better. Of course Enemy saw a dip. Why are people going to invest any more in a show that has been canceled? I liked the show, but deleted from my DVR list because…why bother?
I can’t believe I forgot to tape CBS last night, I remembered just as I was thinking hmm, what to watch at ten if I don’t feel like watching the Hills
how does Gossip Girl get SO much press when it’s numbers are so terrible? 3 million viewers?
Chuck was lame. The twist with the girlffriend didn’t make any sense. And the “clues” were silly. Why didn’t they just kidnap Chuck to start with… why go through all that hastle?
This has been a terrible season of DWTS yet raings go up! Why?
HIMYM is the best sitcom since Friends.
Guess what? I just solved the Heroes problem. Fire them all and turn the show into Hiros. All Hiro, all the time.
Oh, and New York NEEDS a fire breathing T-Rex building.
Viva Charles Carmicheal! Keep on climbing buddy! I also watch GG and HIMYM, but Chuck needs the good ratings news more.
T-Rex: I am intriguied by your views and would like more inrofmation. Do you have a newsletter?