ABC Dances to #1 on Monday

Monday night’s household ratings haven’t completely posted on a few of the sites I use as references, however the total viewership numbers and adult 18-49 ratings are available so I will use those for now and update the post when I get more info.

ABC dominated Monday night, partly due to an impressive performance from Dancing with the Stars and partly due to the fact that CBS’s entire lineup was in repeats. The Alphabet net averaged a strong 15.52 million viewers and a 3.4/9 adults 18-49 rating. This was miles ahead of second place CBS, which posted 9.57 million and a 3.0/8 18-49. FOX came in third with a special airing of So You Think You Can Dance, which averaged 6.03 million viewers and a 2.5/6 18-49 rating. NBC, as usual, was fourth with 5.42 million viewers and a weak 1.9/5 18-49 rating, and the CW actually came in sixth place (2.45 million viewers and a 1.2/3 in adults 18-49) – behind Spanish language channel Univision (3.41 million and 1.3/3).

At 8pm, Dancing with the Stars scored big numbers for ABC with roughly 17.03 million viewers. A rerun of How I Met Your Mother kept CBS in second with 7.09 million viewers, and Heroes on NBC was third with 5.86 million. FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance was fourth with 5.78 million viewers. One Tree Hill was fifth for the CW with 2.69 million.

DWTS jumped up to 18.44 million viewers during its 9pm hour, which was a noticeable gain of over a million people compared to last week. A rerun of Two and a Half Men on CBS was a very distant second with 11.25 million viewers. Lie to Me helped FOX overtake NBC for third with 6.28 million viewers as freshman procedural Trauma dragged The Peacock down to fourth with 5.77 million. The CW’s racy Gossip Girl lost a few hundred thousand viewers from its lead-in, and attracted 2.21 million viewers.

A repeat of CBS’s CSI: Miami managed to prevent ABC’s sweep of the night by averaging 11.22 million viewers to Castle’s 11.09 million. In more bad news for NBC, The Jay Leno Show only managed to snare 4.62 million viewers.