With its season finale airing tonight, ABC’s Dancing with the Stars once again waltzed its way to victory on Monday, according to preliminary overnight ratings. Stars nabbed 20.5 million viewers and provided a solid lead-in for the network’s new reality series, Find My Family (12.9 million). Over at CBS, The Big Bang Theory (14.2 million) actually out-performed its lead-in, Two and a Half Men (13.9 million), evidence of Theory’s growing audience.
| Time | Show | Viewers (in millions) |
|---|---|---|
| 8pm | Dancing with the Stars (ABC) House (Fox) How I Met Your Mother (CBS) Heroes (NBC) One Tree Hill (The CW) |
20.5 11.9 8.8 5.2 1.2 (repeat) |
| 8:30pm | Accidentally on Purpose (CBS) | 7.9 |
| 9pm | Two and a Half Men (CBS) Lie to Me (Fox) Trauma (NBC) Gossip Girl (The CW) |
13.9 7.3 5.3 1.2 (repeat) |
| 9:30pm | The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Find My Family (ABC) |
14.2 12.9 |
| 10pm | CSI: Miami (CBS) Castle (ABC) The Jay Leno Show (NBC) |
13.2 10.5 4.6 |
Source: Nielsen
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I like BBT, but it’s pretty obvious why it outperformed Two and a Half Men. After DWTS you could either join a show halfway, subject yourself to the exploitation of Find My Family, or turn to CBS.
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Don’t expect a repeat performance on FMF. The show was horrible.
keep it uop castle!!!!
DWTS is garbage tv! Old folks watch this crap. Nice to see CBS’s comedies doing well. House is still the best show on tv, I cannot believe people watch DWTS crap over House… WHY????
Probably cuz lots of people like it.
Because Cuddy sucks, they got rid of Cameron and I’m at the point where I hope the POTW rises up and kills Foreteen in a dramatic shoot them up in the hospital.
They’re probably the same idiots who watch Survivor over FlashForward on Thur. nite.
I would consider that point except isnt Flashforward losing its audience each week so maybe that show is getting boring. I havent heard many great things about it recently and now ABC has shut it down so that the writers can make it better. I think Survivor just has loyal fans who watch it.
Big Bang Theory beat two and a half men!!!! AWESOME!!! By far the best episode of BBT last night.
last nights ep of BBT was really great and im glad its finally beating the HORRIBLE 2 and a half men
but come on 8.8 for himym and its best episode of the whole season and one of the series’ best episodes even
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it was filled with hilarious bits and heart warming bits and it also showcased the amazingness that is Allyson Hannigan
Eight o’clock is just too early to watch tv–even for the awesomeness that is Allyson Hannigan and Neil Patrick Harris. I DVR it and watch when Accidentally is stinking up the airwaves and I’m done with dinner, walking the dog and other chores
LOL, 8 pm is too early for you? You’d really hate to live in the central time zone, where primetime shows begin an hour earlier for everything.
considering Find My Family was a show dropped in to substitute for the lack of any celebrities on another dance show– well, I guess it worked but it seemed highly rushed. Hope it doesn’t hurt Castle in the coming weeks.
I bet Tuesday night’s DWTS Finale hits 22 to 23 million. The Extreme HomeMakeover team may have another huge hit on their hands. And Castle as always was amazing!
To:Beth
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