Ratings News - 1st November 2011 *Full Tables*

MONDAY 10/31/11

Note: The following overnight averages exclude the New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Hartford-New Haven markets.

Household
Rating/Share
ABC 9.8/16
CBS 7.5/12
Fox 4.7/ 7
NBC 3.1/ 5
CW 0.6/ 1

-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Monday 11/01/10:
CBS: + 7, ABC: -18, NBC: -21, Fox: -55, CW: -62

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-Winners:
Dancing With the Stars (ABC), How I Met Your Mother (CBS), 2 Broke Girls (CBS), Two and a Half Men (CBS), Mike & Molly (CBS)

-Losers (excluding repeats):
The Sing Off (NBC), Rock Center With Brian Williams (NBC)

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Ratings Breakdown:
ABC led the overnight troops on this seventh Monday of the 2011-12 season, followed by CBS, Fox, NBC and a night of repeats on The CW. But four of the five networks (excluding CBS) were down by double-digit percentages year-to-year. Fox’s erosion stems from Game 5 of The World Series airing on the year-ago evening.

ABC opened with annual animated holiday special Scared Shrekless at a second-place 6.1 rating/10 share in the overnights at 8 p.m. That led into a 90-minute installment of Dancing With the Stars at an 11.8/18 from 8:30-10 p.m., with the half-hour breakdown as follows:

Dancing With the Stars (ABC)
8:30 p.m.: 10.8/17 (#1)
9:00 p.m.: 11.9/18 (#1)
9:30 p.m.: 12.6/19 (#1)

One year earlier, Dancing With the Stars was stronger at a 13.9/20 in the Monday 8-10 p.m. block on 11/02/10. As for who is most likely to depart tonight, Nancy Grace is the one who should be going. But my pick is goofy David Arquette.

Dancing With the Stars led into crime solver Castle at a dominant 8.8/15 in the overnights at 10 p.m. Comparably, retention out of the 9:30 p.m. portion of Dancing With the Stars was 70 percent.

In series-premiere news, Rock Center With Brian Williams, NBC’s first regularly scheduled newsmagazine since Dateline launched in 1992, finished a very distant third at 10 p.m. with a 3.3/ 5. Although that miniscule 3.3 rating did build from the 9:30 p.m. portion of lead-in The Sing-Off by 18 percent, canceled drama The Playboy Club opened in this hour on Sept. 19 with a stronger 3.9/ 6. One year earlier, special The Women of Saturday Night Live averaged a 4.3/ 7 in the time period on 11/02/10.

Lead-in The Sing Off remained out of the competitive loop, of course, with a mere 3.0/ 5 from 8-10 p.m. Here is the half-hour breakdown:

The Sing Off (NBC)
8:00 p.m.: 3.6/ 6 (#4)
8:30 p.m.: 3.0/ 5 (#4)
9:00 p.m.: 2.8/ 4 (#4)
9:30 p.m.: 2.8/ 4 (#4)

CBS’ two-hour sitcom block remained on the year-to-year plus side care of How I Met Your Mother (#1, 6.9/12: +17 percent), 2 Broke Girls (#2, 7.1/11: +29 percent from Rules of Engagement), Two and a Half Men (#2, 9.6/15: + 8 percent) and Mike & Molly (#2, 7.8/12: +11 percent). While this was a season-low for Two and a Half Men, the addition of Ashton Kutcher is still worthy of accolades. Hawaii Five-O capped off the evening for the Eye net with a second-place 6.7/11, which dipped by eight percent year-to-year.

Over at Fox, dinosaur drama Terra Nova finished third in the 8 p.m. hour, with a series-low 4.6/ 8. That led into deteriorating House at a 4.7/ 7 (#3) at 9 p.m. Needless to say, it is time for Hugh Laurie to find a new gig.

The CW capped off the evening with back-to-back encore telecasts of drama Ringer at a 0.6/ 1 from 8-10 p.m.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Source: Marc Berman@TVMediaInsights