For the rest of this month I’ll be posting about the TV ratings of new and returning shows but after that it will most likely stop. Last night a slew of new and returning shows premiered and almost everything went up from their finales or debuted quite well.
Dancing With The Stars won the 8 pm hour with 20 million viewers. House premiered to 10.5, How I Met Your Mother returned to it’s usually 8.8 million viewers, same with Rules Of Engagment (8.3), Chuck was slightly down from last year(6.1) but as Ausiello pointed out on Twitter it had no promotion so it’s not the worst but it could be let go after this season.
For 9 pm Dancing With The Stars went up to 21 million viewers, Two And A Half men roared back with 14.5 (Charlie Sheen can do no wrong in the eyes of middle America) and the new show King Of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond Mike & Molly premiered to 12.5. It has gotten good reviews so with this time slot and positive reception it should stay stable. The highly promoted The Event premiered well for NBC with 11.2 while Lonestar on Fox was the failure of the night with only 4.1 million viewers.
Finally for the 10 pm hour the revamp of Hawaii Five-0 premiered very well with 13.8 million viewers, the new NCIS (a show that does so well yet I don’t know anyone who watches it) Castle premiered to 11.2 and Chase premiered decently to 7.9
Tonight Glee returns so we’ll see how that fairs.
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