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.).
The CW aired reruns of Privileged and Gossip Girl last night.
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chuck better not get cancelled!
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.
i think its weird that the big bang got more viewers than himym, that has not happens since they switched time slots
I do watch The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother when they are on TV, and then watch Chuck later online. This is mostly attributed the the fact that NBC has a better website for watching shows online. So far I haven’t seen that The Big Bang Theory is even available, and it’s always hard to get How I Met Your Mother to play. So I guess for CBS it pays to have a poor quality website.
I know lots of people that LOVE the Big Bang Theory. It was my favorite new show of last season.
As for Heroes, while I still watch it, I’ve been pretty lost because of the big break the show took, since it didn’t come back after the writer’s strike. I bet that lost it some viewers.
Please watch Chuck. It is really funny and a great show. Give it a chance, please?! I would be very depressed if it was cancelled.
Chuck is corny and that’s why people don’t watch it. Heroes is terrible and that’s why people don’t watch it.
I love Chuck too. Maybe it is the time slot- it is hard to go against a juggernaut like Dancing with the Stars. I hope they give it a chance and move it if they have too. NBC must keep Chuck!
i agree – chuck is very corny, which is why my husband cannot stand it. i realize it’s corny, and wish it wasn’t AS corny as it is, but I still watch it and find it amusing.
does Chuck really have a male audience?
I watched the premiere of Chuck on Bravo (I think it was Bravo) this past Sunday. So happy to find it since I missed it last week. Chuck is the best! I’d take Chuck over Brice.
The rating system does not account for TIVO/DVR recordings. The networks use the ratings to sell commercial air time. You can only sell commercial time if people are actually watching the commercials.
Who? In important news, There are trillions of money just sitting as cash as internationally people have lost faith in the US system thanks to people like you who read this tripe instead of minding your finances.
watch Terminator!
Chuck was replaced by Senate Debate here in Denver, on NBC. I had to watch it on myTV.
Very tough time slot. Even a good show will fail to generate big numbers there. Like going up against Idol or an NFL playoff game. Can’t win. And, Chuck can be seen in repeats and on TiVO while like sports … Dancing is live and is far more immediate. Thus the very high ratings for DWTS, Idol and shows like them. Be interested to see Chuck’s numbers after all the sources of viewing are in. A worthy show.
I can’t watch Chuck live anymore cause stupid TimeWarner and KXAN won’t come to an agreement. Argh!!!!!!!
So can CBS please move back Old Christine back to Mondays? That’s where it belongs. They tried a 2nd night of comedy, and it didn’t work. So move the best sitcom on TV back to Monday where its audience liked it.