Ratings: Undercover Boss Gets Biggest Audience in a Year; Kardashians Set Series Record

Maybe because it qualifies as fantasy fare in the Great Recession, Undercover Bossgrabbed its biggest audience since January 2011, according to Nielsen overnights. Meanwhile, the implosion of Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries set series records for E!.

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The preliminary data, not adjusted for time zones, also show that the National Football League's Pro Bowldeclined by 18 percent and Once Upon a Timepulled in its biggest audience in 11 weeks.

Basic cable ratings come out later, so no immediate numbers are available for the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which was simulcast on TNT and TBS. But E! reported that the Season 4 finish of Kourtney & Kim Take New York posted the series' highest-rated and most-watched telecast ever, averaging nearly 4.5 million viewers. It did best in its target demo of women 18-to-34 (3.3 million).

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8 p.m.
CBS: Undercover Boss13.06 million viewers (3.0)
ABC: Once Upon a Time10.78 million (3.4)
Fox: The Simpsons5.12 million (2.4); Napoleon Dynamite4.43 million (2.1)
NBC: Pro Bowl10.52 million (3.6) {7-10:30 p.m.}