ABC’s Dancing with the Stars came back strong Monday night, dominating the 7 to 9 p.m. hours against first-run episodes of Fox’s House and CBS’ Two and a Half Men.
The eighth edition of Dancing Withs The Stars averaged an American Idol-ish 418,509 D-FW viewers, routing runnerup House (172,718 viewers) in the first hour and stomping Two and a Half Men (265,720 viewers) and Rules of Engagement (232,505 viewer) from 8 to 9 p.m.
Dancing with the Stars also ran first among advertiser-favored 18-to-49-year-olds, with CBS’ four sitcoms taking second.
The pendulum then swung at 9 p.m., where CBS’ CSI: Miami drew more total viewers (438,438) than Dancing with the Stars while the premiere of ABC’s Castle dipped to a second place 245,791 viewers. Castle ran third, however, among 18-to-49-year-olds, behind NBC’s Medium.
Past prime-time, from 11:35 p.m. to 12:35 a.m., CBS’ Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson had 66,430 total viewers to top ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live and NBC’s fledgling Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (46,501 viewers apiece). But all three talkers were topped in that hour by Fox4’s syndicated repeat of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (73,073 viewers).
“Dancing With The Stars:” 21.5 Million Viewers
Huuuugggge opener for “Dancing with the Stars:” 21.5 million viewers.
That helped “Castle,” by the way - 11.6 million - but I gotta think ABC would have liked to have held on to a little more of that lead-in. Meanwhile, ABC is saying this is the biggest “Dancing with the Stars” opener ever…
Here’s more from the press release…
“… “Dancing with the Stars” drew an average audience of 22.5 million viewers and a 5.9 rating, 15 share in Adults 18-49 to emerge as Monday’s No. 1 TV program in viewers and young adults. In fact, “Dancing with the Stars” won each of its half-hours and soared to the top of its time period, outdrawing second-place Fox by 10.8 million viewers and by 40% in Adults 18-49 (11.7 million & 4.2/11).”
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