Monday Night TV Ratings News, ABC & CBS Wins Monday Night wars...

ABC’s Bachelorette adults 18-49 rating increased 4% on Tuesday, as the summer premieres of Lie To Me, The Good Guys, and Persons Unknown failed to crack a 2.0 rating in their premiere.

Against the premieres of most of their original competition for summer Monday’s, ABC’s Bachelorette was up 4% to a 2.6 adults 18-49 rating, while True Beauty was down 5% to a 1.9 rating. On the night, ABC held even vs. last week.

Lie To Me’s 1.8 adults 18-49 rating had to have been disappointing to Fox. It’s not clear what Fox might have been expecting from The Good Guys. It’s 1.4 adults 18-49 rating was down a tenth from it’s May 19 “sneak peek”. Will the show already have the “loser” label by the time fall arrives?

Last Comic Standing’s 2.0 rating was down 17% from its premiere 2 summers ago (5/22/08), but at the risk of violating my own Gunsmoke Rule, that seems about what NBC could have expected. On the other hand, for a scripted show, Persons Unknown’s premiere 1.3 adults 18-49 rating was pitiful.


Scoreboard

Adults 18-49: Rating/Share
1. ABC: 2.3/7
2. CBS: 2.0/6
3. NBC: 1.8/5
4. FOX: 1.6/5
5. Univision: 1.4/4
6. The CW: 0.3/1

Adults 18-34: Rating/Share
1. ABC: 2.1/7
2. NBC: 1.7/5
3. Univision: 1.7/5
4. CBS: 1.3/4
5. FOX: 1.3/4
6. The CW: 0.4/1


Total Viewers (million) 6.915 7.618 4.750 5.308 3.587 0.728
1. CBS: 7.618
2. ABC: 6.915
3. Fox: 5.308
4. NBC: 4.750
5. Univision: 3.587
6. The CW: 0.728

8:00
ABC The Bachelorette 2.2/8 - 7.308
FOX Lie To Me (summer premiere) 1.8/6 - 5.752
NBC Last Comic Standing (premiere) 1.8/6 - 4.963
CBS How I Met Your Mother (repeat) 1.6/6 - 5.379
CW One Tree Hil (repeat) 0.3/1 - 0.921

8:30
ABC The Bachelorette 2.4 8 7.637
FOX Lie To Me (summer premiere) 1.9 6 6.207
NBC Last Comic Standing (premiere) 1.9 6 4.765
CBS Rules of Engagement (repeat) 1.6 5 5.539
CW One Tree Hil (repeat) 0.3 1 0.834

9:00
ABC The Bachelorette 2.7 8 8.048
CBS Two And A Half Men (repeat) 2.6 8 9.658
NBC Last Comic Standing (premiere) 2.1 6 5.094
FOX The Good Guys (summer premiere) 1.4 4 4.620
CW Gossip Girl (repeat) 0.3 1 0.581

9:30
ABC The Bachelorette 2.9 8 8.561
CBS The Big Bang Theory (repeat) 2.7 7 9.055
NBC Last Comic Standing (premiere) 2.1 6 5.101
FOX The Good Guys (summer premiere) 1.4 4 4.652
CW Gossip Girl (repeat) 0.3 1 0.577

10:00
CBS CSI: Miami (repeat) 1.9 5 8.118
ABC True Beauty 1.9 5 5.231
NBC Persons Unknown (premiere) 1.4 4 4.308

10:30
CBS CSI: Miami (repeat) 1.9 6 7.960
ABC True Beauty 1.8 5 4.708
NBC Persons Unknown (premiere) 1.3 4 4.266

yay univison getting in the mix.