The savvy combo of sophomore series Samantha Who? and ratings gobbler Dancing With the Stars helped ABC win Monday night, according to preliminary ratings data. Samantha’s season premiere (pictured: Christina Applegate) drew in 11.7 viewers — nowhere near the 14.9 million it banked with last fall’s series premiere, but up significantly over season 1’s 11.2 million average. DWTS, meanwhile, averaged 1.1 million viewers less than last week, but still handily won the 8 p.m. hour.
ABC may have reigned supreme with its trusty DWTS-Samantha Who? one-two punch, but the other networks managed to make notable gains from last week. CBS’s The Big Bang Theory (9.4 million) and CBS’ How I Met Your Mother (9.1 million) both saw slight gains in overall viewers from last week, and the Eye’s Two and a Half Men (14.6 million) gained 700,000 viewers from last week and placed first in the 18-49 demo. CBS’ freshman series Worst Week (9.8 million) gained a million viewers from last Monday (when it lost a half-million viewers) and appears to be climbing back toward the 11 million viewers it attracted for the Sept. 22 premiere.
Over at NBC, Heroes is at least moving in the right direction with this week’s boost to 8.6 million from last week’s 8.2 million, thought it’s still down 26 percent from last season’s average. And the Peacock’s Chuck (6 million), which has struggled so far this season, managed a 100,000-viewer gain from last week’s audience, which was down 11 percent from the disappointing premiere viewership.
As for The CW’s One Tree Hill, the latest installment of the show’s sixth season drew in 3.4 million viewers, which matched the series’ highest-rated episode on Sept. 29, while Gossip Girl averaged 3.3 million viewers, down a bit from its last episode (3.5 million) but still way over its season 1 average (2.2 million).
At 10 p.m., CSI: Miami gave CBS its usual win for this hour, with 13.0 million viewers, though that 9 percent drop continues the drama’s downward trend this season. CSI’s competition came from the series premiere of NBC’s Christian Slater vehicle My Own Worst Enemy, which played head games with 7.3 million households and only lost 9 percent of its viewers over the hour, and ABC’s Boston Legal (8.5 million), which lost 1.3 million of last week’s viewers, presumably in large part due to having a Samantha Who? lead-in this week instead of that spangly behemoth DWTS, which last week managed to help Legal actually improve upon its season premiere numbers.
Fox aired baseball’s National League Championship Series last night, taking the third spot in households with 7.3 million viewers and precluding new episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Prison Break.
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“NBC’s The Big Bang Theory…”
Lol, they wish.
Yay! More people are watching Chuck. This is one of the best shows on TV.
It doesn’t help that it’s up against baseball playoffs and the beginning of MNF. Too bad the Giants stunk it up last night.
Why, oh WHY would 14.6 million watch Two and a Half Men? Every week I see the numbers and it makes me so sad…
So glad Christina’s show is doing so well good for her.Prison Break should get the axe already such a boring show.That’s not even entertaining anymore it’s just dated just wasting air time!
I agree PB is awful.
CSI Miami is more vulnerable than ever. It has lost over 4 million viewers since its premiere and is steadily spiraling downward. It has been a long time since it got beaten by 2 1/2 men in the CBS Monday night ratings. It’s hemorraging viewers at a very fast pace. Surely it can’t be from the competition of Boston Legal?
can anyone tell me what song was playing when samantha was dancing around her apartment and undressing at the beginning of the episode???
Where are the ratings for Gossip Girl??????
Where are the ratings for Gossip Girl???
this is a joke right, according to nielsen CBS won oh and according to the Hollywood Reporter, check it out at thrfeed.com
Lima – both ABC and CBS share top success for the night, CBS on top in 18-49 and ABC in overall viewers.
As for Samantha Who, I’m still unconvinced that the show would be able to perform so well without Dancing With the Stars as a lead-in. While it held a lot of DWtS’s 18-49, it took a huge tumble in overall viewership.
Gossip Girl nabbed 3.3 overall and 1.6 18-49 — down slightly from its last new episode.
Also, I agree with Amma. Prison Break should have been axed a long time ago.
i see thx Phil, I would have to agree with you about samantha, apparently CBS’ new comedy worst week beat it out and considering i dont even watch that show that means trouble for samantha who.
I think Chuck was helped by competing against baseball. A lot of regular viewers of Terminator:SCC, who didn’t want to watch baseball, tuned in to watch Chuck.
Again One Tree Hill better than Gossip Girl??!! CW should start promoting OTH!
more people should be watching Chuck!
Boston Legal wasn’t on last night.
I agree with the Prison Break cancelation. I was a diehard fan for seasons 1 and 2, but after the disenchanting third season and the narrative killing fourth one, I tuned out the moment Heroes came back on the air.
Happy to hear CSI: Miami’s taken a downturn too. Caruso makes me cringe.
The song in the background when she is dancing around her apartment is by Gabriella Cilmi, the song is called – save the lies.
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