Prime-Time Ratings:
Monday 12/21/09

-Total Viewers:
CBS: 8.18 million, NBC: 6.78, ABC: 5.03, Fox: 4.48, CW: 796,000

-Adults 18-49:
CBS: 2.4 rating/7 share, NBC: 2.1/ 7, Fox: 1.4/ 4, ABC: 1.3/ 4, CW: 0.3/ 1

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-Yesterday’s Winners:
Two and a Half Men R (CBS), The Big Bang Theory R (CBS), CSI: Miami R (CBS)

-Honorable Mention:
The Sing-Off (NBC)

-Yesterday’s Losers (excluding repeats):
Find My Family (ABC), The Jay Leno Show (NBC)

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Note: The fast affiliate results for Monday will be posted at PIFeedback by 12 p.m. ET. Go to the website, click on Ratings Box (the first category), then Last Night’s Results, and Monday, December 21, 2009.

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-Ratings Breakdown:
With repeats running rampant over the next two weeks, there will be little of note in the addictive world of ratings. That said, CBS won this third Monday in December in both total viewers and adults 18-49 with its encore combination of How I Met Your Mother (Viewers: #3, 5.71 million; A18-49: #2t, 1.8/ 5), Accidentally on Purpose (Viewers: #3, 5.43 million; A18-49: #2t, 1.7/ 5), Two and a Half Men (Viewers: #1, 10.74 million; #1, 3.1/ 8), The Big Bang Theory (Viewers: #1, 9.95 million; A18-49: #1, 3.3/ 9) and CSI: Miami (Viewers: #1, 8.64 million; A18-49: #1, 2.4/ 7). Overall, the Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory encores shared top-rated honors of the night.

The conclusion of short-flight NBC reality/competition The Sing-Off was sampled, with a respectable (and very consistent) 7.25 million viewers and a 2.3/ 6 among adults 18-49 from 8-10 p.m. Here is the half-hour breakdown:

The Sing-Off (NBC)
8:00 p.m. – Viewers: 6.95 million (#1), A18-49: 2.1/ 6 (#1)
8:30 p.m. – Viewers: 7.29 million (#1), A18-49: 2.3/ 7 (#1)
9:00 p.m. – Viewers: 7.21 million (#2), A18-49: 2.3/ 6 (#2)
9:30 p.m. – Viewers: 7.55 million (#2), A18-49: 2.4/ 6 (#2)

Given the time of year, you can to give NBC a “thumbs up” for introducing something new. Leading out of The Sing-Off was The Jay Leno show, which finished second behind CBS’ CSI: Miami encore with 5.84 million viewers and a 1.6/ 4 in the demo. While Leno was slightly above average, this was still a “losing” performance.

Next was ABC care of repeat holiday special I Want a Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown (Viewers: #2, 5.85 million; A18-49: #2, 1.8/ 5), recently introduced Find My Family (Viewers: #3, 4.83 million; A18-49: #4, 1.2/ 3), which has not benefited airing opposite repeats, and a repeat of Castle (Viewers: #3, 4.40 million; A18-49: #3, 1.0/ 3). Why Kleenex is not sponsoring Find My Family is beyond me.

Elsewhere, Fox aired repeats of House (Viewers: #4, 4.91 million; A18-49: #4, 1.6/ 5) and Lie To Me (Viewers: #4, 4.05 million; A18-49: #3, 1.3/ 3), which is keeping the time period occupied until the return of 24 in January. And The CW closed the night with repeats of One Tree Hill (Viewers: #5, 914,000; A18-49: #5, 0.3/ 1) and Gossip Girl (Viewers: #5, 679,000; A18-49: #5, 0.3/ 1), which never fare well in second-run telecasts.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data (R = repeat)

My wife and I watched last night's finale for Sing-Off and we watched 2/3 of last Monday's show also. It took the finale for us to firmly decide that we'll never watch the show again if they decide to bring it back...

Hopefully the next new thing that NBC tries is better.

I have to admit that The Sing Off was painful to watch. It was very badly done, from a technical side. I watched the first hour, but thankfully had 2.5 Men/BBT to switch to at 9pm. Meanwhile, I went to watch Leno at 10pm, but all I had was a green screen on my television for the entire hour - did anyone else have this problem? Regardless, I believe this is the first time Leno has been above 5 million and a 1.5 demo on Monday in months, so good for him. Still, with CSI: Miami a repeat, coulda been higher.

Meanwhile, Find My Family is quite the embarrassment. Good thing ABC only ordered 6 episodes of it. The House/Lie to Me repeats were also lower last night. What I dont understand, however, is how Lie to Me manages to repeat so well compared to House. Together, they repeat the same, yet in originals, Lie to Me does considerably worse. Doesn't make sense.

I like The SingOff quite a lot and surely it will comeback with those numbers

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Meanwhile, I went to watch Leno at 10pm, but all I had was a green screen on my television for the entire hour - did anyone else have this problem?

Maybe that's why the ratings were up.

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Originally posted by SW:

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Meanwhile, I went to watch Leno at 10pm, but all I had was a green screen on my television for the entire hour - did anyone else have this problem?

Maybe that's why the ratings were up.

Haha, I knew someone was going to crack this joke. Sadly, you're probably right

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The conclusion of short-flight NBC reality/competition The Sing-Off was sampled, with a respectable (and very consistent) 7.25 million viewers and a 2.3/ 6 among adults 18-49 from 8-10 p.m. Here is the half-hour breakdown:

The Sing-Off (NBC)
8:00 p.m. – Viewers: 6.95 million (#1), A18-49: 2.1/ 6 (#1)
8:30 p.m. – Viewers: 7.29 million (#1), A18-49: 2.3/ 7 (#1)
9:00 p.m. – Viewers: 7.21 million (#2), A18-49: 2.3/ 6 (#2)
9:30 p.m. – Viewers: 7.55 million (#2), A18-49: 2.4/ 6 (#2)

Considering how poorly everything does on NBC, they should bring this back again next year.

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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- FOX is giving the inaugural week of "American Idol's" new season a few extra minutes - 15 to be exact.

The show's Wednesday, January 13 installment will now run 75 minutes, pushing the launch of "Our Little Genius" to 9:15/8:15c. "Genius" however will only run for 45 minutes on said night.

The news was confirmed to the site exclusively this morning.

As previously announced, season nine of "Idol" bows on Tuesday, January 12 at 8:00/7:00c with a two-hour premiere.

To recap:

Tuesday, January 12
8:00/7:00c - "American Idol" (Two-Hour Season Premiere)

Wednesday, January 13
8:00/7:00c - "American Idol" (75-Minute Episode)
9:15/8:15c - "Our Little Genius" (45-Minute Series Premiere)

Tuesday, January 19
8:00/7:00c - "American Idol"
9:00/8:00c - "Our Little Genius" (Time Period Premiere)

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Very smart move from FOX since the AI viewer is now less ikely to switch channels, so this will definetely inflate the premiere numbers for "Our Little Genius".

Monday finals

I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown (R)
- 5.893 million viewers
- 3.4/6 HH
- 1.8/5 A18-49

Find My Family
- 4.845 million viewers
- 3.2/5 HH
- 1.2/3 A18-49

Castle (R)
- 4.414 million viewers
- 2.8/5 HH
- 1.0/3 A18-49

How I Met Your Mother (R)
- 5.617 million viewers
- 3.5/6 HH
- 1.7/5 A18-49

Accidentally on Purpose (R)
- 5.408 million viewers
- 3.4/6 HH
- 1.7/5 A18-49

Two and a Half Men (R)
- 10.783 million viewers
- 6.6/11 HH
- 3.2/9 A18-49

The Big Bang Theory (R)
- 10.001 million viewers
- 6.1/10 HH
- 3.4/9 A18-49

CSI: Miami (R)
- 8.633 million viewers
- 5.8/10 HH
- 2.4/7 A18-49

The Sing Off (121 minutes)
- 7.277 million viewers
- 4.5/7 HH
- 2.3/6 A18-49

The Jay Leno Show (59 minutes)
- 5.809 million viewers
- 3.7/6 HH
- 1.6/4 A18-49

House (R)
- 4.888 million viewers
- 3.1/5 HH
- 1.6/5 A18-49

Lie To Me (R)
- 4.053 million viewers
- 2.5/4 HH
- 1.3/3 A18-49

One Tree Hill (R)
- 0.882 million viewers
- 0.6/1 HH
- 0.3/1 A18-49
- 0.3/1 A18-34
- 0.4/1 W18-34

Gossip Girl (R)
- 0.652 million viewers
- 0.5/1 HH
- 0.3/1 A18-49
- 0.4/1 A18-34
- 0.5/1 W18-34

Intervention
- 1.796 million viewers
- 1.2/2 HH
- 0.9/3 A18-49

Hoarders
- 2.392 million viewers
- 1.5/3 HH
- 1.1/3 A18-49

Monday Night Football (8:29pm, 188 minutes)
- 11.343 million viewers
- 7.3/12 HH
- 4.2/12 A18-49

Pawn Stars (10pm)
- 3.300 million viewers
- 2.0/3 HH
- 1.4/4 A18-49

Pawn Stars (10:30pm)
- 3.483 million viewers
- 2.2/4 HH
- 1.4/4 A18-49

Little People, Big World (8pm)
- 1.809 million viewers
- 1.2/2 HH
- 0.6/2 A18-49

The Closer
- 5.971 million viewers
- 3.8/6 HH
- 1.4/4 A18-49

Men of a Certain Age
- 3.696 million viewers
- 2.3/4 HH
- 1.1/3 A18-49

WWE Raw (9pm)
- 4.830 million viewers
- 2.7/4 HH
- 1.6/4 A18-49

WWe Raw (10pm, 71 minutes)
- 4.841 million viewers
- 2.7/5 HH
- 1.7/5 A18-49

For the Love of Ray J 2
- 1.756 million viewers
- 1.1/2 HH
- 0.8/2 A18-49

I Want to Work for Diddy 2
- 1.063 million viewers
- 0.7/1 HH
- 0.6/2 A18-49

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Originally posted by TravisYanan:

Men of a Certain Age
- 3.696 million viewers
- 2.3/4 HH
- 1.1/3 A18-49

That's another fall for week 3, the show needs to find solid ground soon, I really enjoy it and want to see a second season ordered.

The Castle repeat was up against a CSI:Miami repeat, Leno, and a show about old guys on TNT.

And it came in dead last in the demo. Third in total viewers--over a million fewer viewers than Leno, about half as many as CSI:Miami.

Merry Christmas, Castle.

You are the coal in ABC's stocking.

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Originally posted by pisher:
The Castle repeat was up against a CSI:Miami repeat, Leno, and a show about old guys on TNT.

And it came in dead last in the demo. Third in total viewers--over a million fewer viewers than Leno, about half as many as CSI:Miami.

Merry Christmas, Castle.

You are the coal in ABC's stocking.

Castle may be the coal in ABC's stocking, but it's reliable. Until ABC can figure out to do with the weaker programs it skeds then what's the big deal if Castle continues? When Castle becomes the point that it is dead last (I'm talking behind Scrubs, Better Off Ted, Ugly Betty, etc.) then I can see why everyone's bagging on the show. But with or without DWTS it seems to pull in at least 2+ in the demo and 8+ otherwise. Give it a rest.

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Originally posted by William:

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Originally posted by pisher:
The Castle repeat was up against a CSI:Miami repeat, Leno, and a show about old guys on TNT.

And it came in dead last in the demo. Third in total viewers--over a million fewer viewers than Leno, about half as many as CSI:Miami.

Merry Christmas, Castle.

You are the coal in ABC's stocking.

Castle may be the coal in ABC's stocking, but it's reliable. Until ABC can figure out to do with the weaker programs it skeds then what's the big deal if Castle continues? When Castle becomes the point that it is dead last (I'm talking behind Scrubs, Better Off Ted, Ugly Betty, etc.) then I can see why everyone's bagging on the show. But with or without DWTS it seems to pull in at least 2+ in the demo and 8+ otherwise. Give it a rest.

Amen. Is pisher really that delusional that he believes Castle is one of ABC's big problems? If so, someone could use some more meds for Christmas.

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Originally posted by Fifty:

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Originally posted by TravisYanan:

Men of a Certain Age
- 3.696 million viewers
- 2.3/4 HH
- 1.1/3 A18-49

That's another fall for week 3, the show needs to find solid ground soon, I really enjoy it and want to see a second season ordered.

The real test is in January when it doesn't have the Closer for a lead in. I know shows are in repeats but this is a death time of the year for TV ratings. TNT should've waited to launch shows until January.

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Pawn Stars (10pm)
- 3.300 million viewers
- 2.0/3 HH
- 1.4/4 A18-49

Pawn Stars (10:30pm)
- 3.483 million viewers
- 2.2/4 HH
- 1.4/4 A18-49

According to a press release from History, this is a series high.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009...s-monday-night/37031


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