Ratings News - 9th February #chuck #house #thecape #gossipgirl #castle

Prime-Time Metered Market Monday Ratings:
CBS Wins; Solid Sampling for The Chicago Code on Fox

Monday 2/07/11
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
CBS 7.7/12
Fox 7.5/11
ABC 6.4/10
NBC 4.2/ 6
CW 1.5/ 2

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-Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening (Monday, 2/08/10):
NBC: +11, Fox: - 3, CBS and CW: -12 each, ABC: -18

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-Yesterday’s Winners:
House (Fox), How I Met Your Mother (CBS), Two and a Half Men (CBS), Mike & Molly (CBS), The Chicago Code (Fox)

-Honorable Mention:
The Bachelor (ABC), Harry’s Law (NBC), Hawaii Five-O (CBS)

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

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-Ratings Breakdown:
CBS led this first Monday of the February 2011 sweeps in the overnights, beating second-place (and above average) Fox by two-tenths of a rating point. But Fox could be the network to beat among adults 18-49. Third overall was The Bachelor-ignited ABC, followed by NBC and, of course, The CW.

In series-premiere news, Fox crime drama The Chicago Code was amply sampled with a second-place 6.8 rating/10 share in the overnights at 9 p.m. Comparably, that tied the second half of ABC’s The Bachelor, and the retention out of the 8:30 p.m. portion of lead-in House (8.4/12) was a respectable 81 percent. The Chicago Code was also a considerable improvement over recent occupant Lie to Me. For a series-premiere in a highly competitive time period, this is a positive start.

House, overall, won the 8 p.m. hour with an 8.2/12 in the metered markets. Comparably, that was down by only six percent from one year earlier (8.7/13 on Feb. 8, 2010).

CBS has nothing unusual to report with its combination of How I Met Your Mother (#2: 7.0/10), which always delivers demographically, the final Monday 8:30 p.m. airing of Rules of Engagement (#3: 6.1/ 9), always reliable Two and a Half Men (#1: 9.9/14), and freshman occupants Mike & Molly (#1: 8.2/12), a Mr. TV favorite, and Hawaii Five-O (#1: 7.4/12). One year earlier, former Monday 10 p.m. CBS occupant CSI: Miami averaged a noticeable stronger 9.0/15 in the overnights (on Feb. 8, 2010).

As a reminder, Rules of Engagement moves into the Thursday 8:30 p.m. half-hour out of The Big Bang Theory on February 24, while next Monday marks the series-premiere of Eye net sitcom Mad Love out of How I Met Your Mother.

Over at ABC, goofy The Bachelor remains an attraction for the target female demographic (and a solid time period warmer until Dancing with the Stars returns in March), with a 6.6/10 in the overnights from 8-10 p.m. Here is the half-hour breakdown:

The Bachelor (ABC)
8:00 p.m.: 6.5/10 (#3)
8:30 p.m.: 6.5/10 (#3)
9:00 p.m.: 6.5/10 (#3)
9:30 p.m.: 6.9/10 (#2)

Older skewing crime solver Castle finished third at 10 p.m., with a 6.0/10 in the overnights.

Over at NBC, the news remains bleak from 8-10 p.m. care of tired Chuck (#4: 3.4/ 5) and failed recent entry The Cape (#4: series-low 2.8/ 4), which would have been a better option on NBC cable cousin Syfy. But week four of older-skewing Harry’s Law remained on map, with a second-place 6.3/11 at 10 p.m. While that was indeed a series-low for the David E. Kelley legal drama (four week overnight track: 7.5/12 – 7.1/12 – 7.4/12 – 6.3/11), growth out of The Cape was a significant 125 percent. Yes…the renewal slip should be coming shortly.

Last, and very least, were serialized CW dramas 90210 (1.6/ 2) and Gossip Girl (1.4/ 2), which from an overnight standpoint are “losers.”

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

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