TV Ratings (Monday 14th February) + Sunday

[Jax]

-Total Viewers:
CBS: 11.21 million, ABC: 9.09, Fox: 8.60, NBC: 6.01, CW: 1.34

-Adults 18-49:
CBS: 3.4 rating/10 share, ABC and Fox: 2.7/8 each, NBC: 1.6/4, CW: 0.7/2

CBS

How I Met Your Mother - 9.60 million & 3.7/11

Mad Love (series debut) - 8.84 million & 3.0/8

Two and a Half Men - 14.52 million & 4.2/11

Mike & Molly - 13.12 million & 3.8/10

Hawaii Five-O - 10.59 million & 2.8/8

ABC

The Bachelor (2 hour) - 9.26 million & 2.9/8

Castle - 8.75 million & 2.2/7

FOX

House - 9.91 million & 3.4/10

The Chicago Code - 7.29 million & 2.0/5

NBC

Chuck - 5.48 million & 1.7/5

The Cape - 4.07 million & 1.2/3

Harry’s Law - 8.49 million & 1.7/5

CW

90210 - 1.38 million & 0.7/2

Gossip Girl - 1.31 million & 0.7/2

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SUNDAY...

The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards - 27.56 million & 10.3/26

Desperate Housewives - 9.13 million viewers & 2.6/6

Brothers & Sisters - 6.40 million & 1.8/5

American Dad - 3.94 million & 1.9/6

The Simpsons - 5.62 million & 2.7/7

Bob’s Burgers - 4.22 million & 2.1/5

Family Guy - 5.99 million & 3.2/8

The Cleveland Show - 4.76 million & 2.4/6

Big Love - 0.992 million viewers & 0.4/1

Californication - 0.520 million & 0.3/1

Episodes - 0.489 million & 0.2/1

Shameless - 1.01 million & 0.5/1

 

[mswood]

Between today's CW numbers and the lows OTH, Hellcats and Nikita scored last week, thats 5 shows hitting .7 in adults 18-49. And even with 5 shows Nikita still can't outperform the other 4 in the other major demo groups.

Really this might be the time for the CW to seriously consider shutting down. I mean I very much want a season 7 of SPN, but seriously how much red ink can Warners and CBS really lose off of the broadcast end of these shows?

 

[bigdaddy]

I really hope WB ditches and brings back the WB channel. Have Fringe, Supernatural, Vamphire Diaries, some other sic-fi shows and maybe a night of comedy.

 

[Captain Craig]

Mad Love didn't debut strong. Be curious to see how Rules does in the slot $#*! is going to vacate.

 

[Scout101]

I dunno, those numbers aren't that bad for Mad Love. Didn't blow anyone out, but seemed solid, and around what you'd expect for that time slot, right?

 

[Captain Craig]

It has a good lead in for which it doesn't retain and a half-hour later the numbers surge. It is clearly the odd man out of the line up. Like most new shows it's retention for the next episode will be telling.

 

[Jax]

Yeh Mad Love is virtually DOA though Sitcoms are the easiest genre to build up an audience after the pilot than other shows really with only reality being the exception I guess. However I see it dropping and I wonder why CBS keep always bringing a new show in Feb or March and not in Jan when the rest of the lineup returns for maximum effect.

RoE will probably do enough to warrant at least one more season with TBBT this time so the post HIMYM slot is open but is ALWAYS going to get lower results.

 

[Scout101]

It has a good lead in for which it doesn't retain and a half-hour later the numbers surge. It is clearly the odd man out of the line up. Like most new shows it's retention for the next episode will be telling.

Didn't really TANK the lead-in ratings, though. Wouldn't you expect, for the most part, that when you go from a long-standing hit to a pilot episode, you're not going to keep everyone? It dropped, but not a lot. HIMYM itself went years with the ratings ML got, sometimes worse. It was also on the bubble for years, to be fair, but 3.0/8 isn't exactly terrible. Beat every non-CBS show but House that night

And saying that the reason the numbers surge 30 minutes later has something to do with Mad Love is insane! You're aware that the numbers surged half an hour later because the most watched comedy on TV had just started, right? Anything short of American Idol before 2.5 Men would result in a ratings surge...