Ratings: Chuck Reaches Out and Touches a Season High
Chuck
How Monday's Nielsens netted out:
8 pm/ET
House won the hour with 14.75 million total viewers, dropping 810,000 from last week's season high. The Bachelor averaged 10.99 mil over its two-hour run (a new season high), but got bested by The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men along the way.
Speaking of CBS' sitcoms, Big Bang dipped 200K to 10.9 mil, while How I Met Your Mother (10.18 mil) slipped 580 thou. Chuck's Super Bowl-promoted 3-D outing delivered 8.35 mil, for its best audience of the season. Gossip Girl (2.27 mil) inched up a hair from its season low.
9 pm
Both CBS' Men (16.52 million viewers) and Worst Week (10.05 mil) each gained about 500K. At 11.28 mil, 24 was down 830K, while the opening of Heroes' "Fugitives" chapter (8.46 mil) surged nine percent from the "Villains" finale. (Also of note, Heroes notched its best audience since Oct. 20.) One Tree Hill held steady at 2.6 mil.
10 pm
CSI: Miami gained 10 percent to deliver its largest audience since the season premiere — 16 million viewers. Medium was welcomed back by 8.53 million (on par with its last season finale), while True Beauty (6.82 mil) dipped a well-coiffed hair.