Ratings News - 1st February 2011 - Gossip Girl, Chuck, The Cape, Lie To Me

Monday 1/31/11
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 6.1/ 9
CBS 5.5/ 8
NBC 4.7/ 7
Fox 4.7/ 7
CW 1.4/ 2

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-Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening (Monday, 2/01/10):
NBC: +34, ABC: -12, CW: -18, CBS: -35, Fox: -39

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-Yesterday’s Winners:
The Bachelor (ABC), Two and a Half Men R (CBS), Harry’s Law (NBC)

-Yesterday’s Losers (excluding repeats):
Chuck (NBC), 90210 (CW), The Cape (NBC), Gossip Girl (CW)

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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, January 31, 2010.

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-Ratings Breakdown:
ABC opened the week on a winning overnight note opposite another Monday of all repeats on CBS, with its combination of time period warmer The Bachelor (7.1 rating/10 share from 8-10 p.m.) and a repeat of Castle (#3: 4.3/ 7 at 10 p.m.). The half-hour breakdown for The Bachelor is as follows:

The Bachelor (ABC)
8:00 p.m.: 6.9/10 (#1)
8:30 p.m.: 7.0/10 (#1)
9:00 p.m.: 7.1/10 (#2)
9:30 p.m.: 7.2/11 (#1)

The Bachelor will remain a Monday presence until the next edition of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars begins in March.

CBS, which just ordered two additional episodes of Rules of Engagement and Mike & Molly for the season to make up for the current production hiatus on Two and a Half Men, fared as follows in repeats.

Monday/CBS
8:00 p.m. – How I Met Your Mother (R): 4.7/ 7 (#3)
8:30 p.m. – Rules of Engagement (R): 4.8/ 7 (#3)
9:00 p.m. – Two and a Half Men (R): 7.4/11 (#1)
9:30 p.m. – Mike & Molly (R): 6.1/ 9 (#2)
10:00 p.m. – Hawaii Five- (R): 4.9/ 8 (#2)

In week three news, NBC legal drama Harry’s Law with Oscar winner Kathy Bates looks like a keeper, with a dominant 7.4/12 in the overnights at 10 p.m. While facing an encore telecast of CBS’ aforementioned Hawaii Five-O certainly did not hurt, Harry’s Law built from failing lead-in The Cape this week (#4: 3.3/ 5 at 9 p.m.) by a massive 124 percent. And the overnight consistency to-date is unprecedented. Three-week track for Harry’s Law: 7.5/12 – 7.1/12 – 7.4/12.

Earlier in the evening on NBC was Chuck at a typically lackluster (and fourth-place) 3.5/ 6 at 8 p.m. At the risk of getting more hate mail, Chuck really needs to exit this spring.

Over at Fox, a Monday 8 p.m. edition of sophomore Human Target finished second with a 4.9/ 7 in the overnights. Moving into the Wednesday 9 p.m. hour out of American Idol (effective tomorrow) will certainly be beneficial. Human Target led into the season (or series) finale of Lie to Me, which ranked third at 9 p.m. with a compatible 4.6/ 7. Personally speaking, I do not think Human Target will be returning next season.

The CW, meanwhile, had nothing unusual to report with serialized dramas 90210 (#5: 1.6/ 2) and Gossip Girl (#4: 1.4/ 2), which from an overnight standpoint are both “losers.” Results among target young females could be a different story.





Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Source: pifeedback