
It looks like the summer TV season will wrap the way it started, with CBS’s all-rerun Monday lineup easily topping the night. The network’s comedies The Big Bang Theory (2.8 rating/7 share among adults 18-49, 8.8 million viewers overall) and Two and a Half Men (2.6/7, 9.0 million) were the top programs of the night. Despite featuring the much-hyped announcement of the next Dancing with the Stars cast, ABC’s Bachelor Pad (2.0/6) didn’t get a boost and finished flat with last week. Dating in the Dark (1.5/4) was up a tenth. Following a House rerun (1.3/4) on Fox, an original Lie To Me (1.7/5) was down a tenth from last week. NBC aired an America’s Got Talent repeat (1.3/4) and Dateline (1.3/4), which was down 7% from its last original on Aug. 16.
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Fox made a big mistake by not continuing the HOUSE – LIE TO ME duo on Monday nights for the fall schedule. Wasting LIE TO ME during the summer was about as well thought out as BP’s temporary oil cap!
I’m actually glad FOX gave us Lie to Me in the summer. It was always the highest rated original scripted series, so I’m sure FOX is happy. Plus it gave us something good to watch!
What? The Bachelor spinoff “Bachelor Pad”, a show about 20-something airhead bimbos and vacuous dumbasses scheming to outwit eachother for a qtr $mil while falling deeply, madly and passionately in love with each other — on tv — is flat-lining?! Are audiences starting to wise up? Or maybe the morons making the show don’t really know anything about their audience as much as they think they do.