Jersey Shore
Things just keep getting better at the Jersey Shore.
Ratings for the MTV reality series increased to...
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The Good Wife
The Good Wife headed into its winter hiatus on the strength of its largest audience to date, helping CBS land yet another Tuesday night ratings win.
The freshman legal drama pulled in 14.1 million viewers, handily defeating The Jay Leno Show (5.2 million viewers) and a repeat of The Forgotten (3.3 million viewers), capping off a characteristically strong Tuesday showing for CBS. New holiday episodes of NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles were watched by 20.5 million viewers and 17.4 million viewers, respectively.
Putting up the best fight was NBC's The Sing-Off, which averaged...
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Susan Boyle
TV Guide Network's exclusive broadcast of I Dreamed A Dream: The Susan Boyle Story became the No.1 rated special in the network's history.
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A combined 4.8 million viewers watched the broadcast and its immediate encore Sunday. That reflected record growth among the network's key demographics, and a triple-digit percentage increase among adults 25-to-54.
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Michelle and Barack Obama, Oprah
The Season 4 finale of Dexter pulled in the show's largest audience ever and was the best telecast for Showtime in more than a decade.
The finale was watched by 2.6 million viewers, a 71 percent increase from the previous season's final episode. The strong audience also led alifornication to its best numbers ever (1.1 million viewers) and a similar increase over the previous season-ender.
On the networks, football remained the Sunday night king, as NBC's coverage of the Philadelphia Eagles-New York Giants matchup averaged 18.1 million viewers. While CBS aired repeats ...
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Tiger Woods
Following Tiger Woods' absence from the Chevron World Challenge last week, NBC's coverage of the event suffered a major blow to its ratings.
Tiger Woods skipping own golf tournament
The telecast of the tournament drew 1.2 million viewers, plummeting 54 percent from the previous year when Woods competed in it, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The 33-year-old golfer posted a statement on his Web site Friday apologizing to his fans for his "infidelity" and announcing an "indefinite break" from the game.
Tiger Woods taking a break from golf
But such a ratings plunge has ...
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Ugly Betty
Several Friday night shows saw a slight uptick this week, with Ugly Betty pulling in its largest audience all season.
Ugly Betty moving to Wednesdays
On its final Friday night showing — the ABC series moves to Wednesdays starting Jan. 6 — Betty brought in...
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Jersey Shore
The cast of MTV's Jersey Shore may seem oblivious to the outside world as they party, pump their fists, and work out, but viewers are taking note of them: The show's second week ratings were up 50 percent in its second week...
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Glee
Glee's midseason finale — and final episode until April 2010 — held a high note in the ratings.
Wednesday night's showing of the Fox musical series attracted some 8.13 million viewers — just slightly less than last week's season high.
Before Glee, Fox's So You Think You Can Dance brought in 6.66 million.
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ABC's Modern Family returned with 9.62 million viewers, while other half-hour comedies...
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The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory was Monday's top-rated show, posting the biggest number of overall viewers in the series' history.
Big Bang was watched by 14.7 million viewers, and dominated the competition in the adults-18-to-49 demographic. The show got a boost from a strong lead-in from Two and Half Men (15.2 million viewers), the night's most-watched show.
CBS' comedies benefited from holiday programming on other networks, as How I Met Your Mother (9.1 million viewers) and Accidentally on Purpose (8.3 million viewers) defeated ABC's Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (8.4 million viewers) and Fox's Carrie Underwood Christmas special (8.1 million viewers over two hours)...
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Tony Shalhoub
USA's long-running series Monk exited with a recording-breaking 9.5 million viewers, making it the most-watched hourlong series ever on basic cable.
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The dramedy, which centers on a detective with a serious case of OCD, concluded its run Friday and topped The Closer's record of 9.2 million.
The show, which stars Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk, came to a close after ...
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