Ratings News - 9th November 2010 - How did Gossip Girl, House, The Event do?

Prime-Time Metered Market Monday Ratings:
ABC Dances to More Monday Victory; Mixed Freshman Results

Monday 11/08/10
Note: The overnight data now includes DVR playback until 3 a.m. local time. One year earlier it was based on Live data only.

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Rtg/Shr
ABC 12.2/18
CBS 6.7/10
Fox 5.1/ 7
NBC 4.1/ 6
CW 1.5/ 2

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-Percent Change From the Year-Ago Evening (Monday, November 9, 2009):
NBC: +32, ABC: +27, CW: no change, Fox: - 7, CBS: -11

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-Yesterday’s Winners:
Dancing with the Stars (ABC), Two and a Half Men (CBS)

-Honorable Mention:
How I Met Your Mother (CBS)

-Nothing Extraordinary:
Matt Lauer Reports: George W. Bush (NBC)

-Yesterday’s Losers (excluding repeats):
90210 (CW), The Event (NBC), Lie to Me (Fox), One Tree Hill (CW), Chase (NBC)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
Dominant ABC stood well above the Monday competition, as usual, with the dancing-ignited network outdelivering second-place CBS in the overnights by a hefty 82 percent. Third overall was Fox, followed by sluggish NBC and typically last-place The CW, which relies solely on the young female demographics.

Dancing with the Stars on ABC averaged a whopping 14.2 rating/21 share in the overnights from 8-10 p.m., building by half-hour as follows:

Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
8:00 p.m.: 13.1/19 (#1)
8:30 p.m.: 13.9/20 (#1)
9:00 p.m.: 14.7/21 (#1)
9:30 p.m.: 15.1/22 (#1)

Unless viewers were wise and did vote to keep Bristol Palin around, it is time for Kurt Warner to finally go home. While lead-out Castle did win the 10 p.m. hour with an 8.1/14 in the overnights, retention out of the 9:30 p.m. portion of Dancing with the Stars was only 54 percent. ABC could, and should, be doing better here.

CBS had nothing unusual to report with its line-up of How I Met Your Mother (#3: 5.8/ 9), which always resonates among adults 18-49 (and was up by 16 percent year-to-year), Rules of Engagement (#3: 5.1/ 7), standout Two and a Half Men (#2: 8.9/13), and recent entries Mike & Molly (#2: 7.0/10) and Hawaii Five-O (#2: 6.8/11). Comparably, Mike & Molly dipped by 10 percent from year-ago occupant The Big Bang Theory (7.8/12 on Nov. 9, 2009), while Hawaii Five-O was down by a more extensive 28 percent from CSI: Miami (9.4/16). While Mike & Molly is a respectable entry, older-skewing Hawaii Five-O is turning into a disappointment. Creative guest casting last night: Joan Collins as David Spade’s mother on Rules of Engagement.

NBC replaced struggling Chuck in the 8 p.m. hour with news special Matt Lauer Reports: George W. Bush, and it finished an uneventful fourth with a 4.9/ 8 in the overnights. Next was now officially failing The Event, which sunk to a series-low 4.0/ 6 at 9 p.m. (#3), followed by also recent entry Chase at a last-place 3.3/ 6 at 10 p.m. Although The Event and Chase were both renewed for the remainder of the season, NBC could always reverse its decision.

Over at Fox was House (#2: 6.6/10), which is poised for time period victory among adults 18-49, and Lie to Me (#4: 3.6/ 5), which will be replaced in February with crime solver The Chicago Code. Last, and very least, were CW duo 90210 (#5: 1.6/ 2) and Gossip Girl (#5: 1.5/ 2). From an overnight standpoint, Lie to Me, 90210 and Gossip Girl are all “losers.” There is no getting around that.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

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