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Viewers can’t get enough of Charlie Sheen. After a day of media blitz featuring a string of interviews with the troubled Two and a Half Men star, viewers flocked to watch him on the show that spawned all the controversy. A repeat of Men (11.6 million viewers, 3.2/9 in adults 18-49) was the most watched show on television last night. And that despite extra Sheen competition at 9 PM as the actor himself was on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight talking about the situation around Men. In a promising sign for CBS’ Mike & Molly (3.4/9, 11.4 million), which may be assigned a tentpole position sooner than originally planned given the Men turmoil, the freshman comedy was up 6% from last week to tie veteran How I Met Your Mother (3.4/10, 9.3 million) as CBS’ top program of the night in 18-49. Mother was down 3% from last week, midseason comedy Mad Love (2.7/7, 8 million) at 8:30 PM was down 4%. (CBS aired a Hawaii Five-0 rerun (1.8/5 at 10 PM)
ABC (3.2/9, 10.9 million) topped the night with The Bachelor (3.4/9), flat with last week, and Castle (2.8/8), up 8%. The network posted its strongest Monday numbers in 14 weeks.
Harry’s Law continues to be the bright spot of NBC’s grim Monday lineup. Despite its lead-in, The Cape (1.1/3), dipping a tenth to another series low, midseason dramedy Harry’s Law (1.8/5, 9.1 million) was up 6% in the demo from last week. (The NBC series was probably helped by Hawaii airing a repeat.) Meanwhile, Chuck was stuck at a series low of 1.7/5 in 18-49 for a fifth straight week. Last night, NBC tied its lowest-rated Monday with originals ever. It finished fifth in 18-49 for the night (1.5/4) behind Univision (1.6/5).
Fox’s House (3.8/11, 11 million) was up 9%, while new cop drama The Chicago Code (2.1/6, 8.1 million) was flat.
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Who knew Charlie Sheen would prove to be so quotable?
Clearly his filter is gone and his true emotions are spilling out. He is an “entitled” jerk!! But it is very sad and quite disturbing to witness someone implode and ultimately will explode if he does not receive help. More disturbing are those being entertained by Sheen’s sad and pathetic behavior. Voyeurism at its finest/worst! No thanks… done with the Reality Shows! Bring back Fantasy Island…
Love Harry’s Law and hope it’s renewed but let’s not get crazy. It gets a 1.8 demo. Jersey Shore with 2 million less viewers gets a 4.0 rating.
A 1.8 on NBC, I guess is a winner. On CBS or ABC, it would’ve been cancelled already.
Don’t forget that Fox is allegedly poised to renew the God-awful Fringe despite a horrendous 1.5.
Fringe is terrific. The show is interesting and intriguing and funny. IMO they are doing a terrific job balancing the seasonal story arcs with the standalone “freak of the week” episodes.
The parallel worlds is an incredible device – I would think this show would be an actor’s dream! I remember everybody was trashing Anna Torv for what they perceived as a type-cast stiff performance, then she gets to play a variation of her character with more emotional range and blammo – we can see what a great actor can do.
Fringe is indeed a great show with a loyal following. I’m sure CSI: Miami or Jersey Shore is more your style, and most likely intellect level, which is completely fine.
Neilson is a joke. We know it, they know it and yet, television continues to use it. Did you know less than 12,000 homes total control the ratings for all of North America? Are you kidding me?
Neilson claims they can tell us how many college students are watching any show at any given time. Want to know how many students they actually track? Try 135. I shit you not. Neilson is more full of shit than charlie sheen. Seriously…
And, now ya know.
As a person who looks at ratings for a living, I can tell you that Nielsen ratings are mostly bull. They aren’t accurate.
A while back a few networks tried to get a rival to Nielsen going, but I don’t think that panned out well.
In the end, until something comes along that is a surefire Nielsen Killer and revolutionizes the way we obtain total viewer and individual demo ratings, this is the flawed system we have.
Take a statistics class.
Everyone loves a train wreck…or car crash (see: NASCAR)
For now anyway.
I watched this for the first time last night, and was amazed at the ‘raunchiness’ of the program.
It is not great television like Cheers or Mary Tyler Moore or any number of other sitcoms, but it does seem to be totally designed and written for Charlie, in a Hollywood way, to capture much of Charlie’s real life essence. And, quite frankly, it doesn’t appear to be an stretch for Charlie between on screen and off screen lifestyles.
At the end of the day, how lucky can a person be to get almost $2,000,000 per episode to portray himself?
Why Charlie would you ever screw up such a sweet deal? And for TWO MILLION bucks per show it is not unexpected that you might have to do some things (like behaving yourself) to earn it.
Life’s a bitch…ain’t it, Charlie.
To repeat: 18-49 is losing its luster. The networks are now fully cognizant that aging boomers have lots of money and are willing to spend it. Hell, NBC kept ST. ELSEWHERE on the air for six years because upscale companies like Mercedes-Benz were buying spots on it. If EVENT re-tanks, as it likely will, NBC will probably move HARRY up to 9:00 and throw a reality show or an L&O rerun in at 10:00. Only fools underestimate Kelley’s popularity with adult viewers.
Glad “Castle” won it’s time slot, it was a great 2-parter.
HARRY’S LAW is just awful. It’s more David Kelley white-guilt show. Look at us white people defending the minorities and poor. We are so good. It’s so transparent. If Kelley feels so bad about his white guilt, hire a minority as a lead for chrissake. Pathetic.
SO true! well put. i can’t watch kelley for many reasons, but you summed up the main one quite nicely.
Agree. Awful. Looks like a remix of the failed Outlaw. High profile legal beagle descends the ladder to mix it up with The Masses. Usually love Bates but shrieking harridans at 10 pm are not for me.
C’mon Lorre, do the “Full Darren Stevens”…replace Sheen with Stamos or Macchio AS THE SAME CHARACTER WITH NO EXPLAINATION!
Or Emilio Estevez!!
Great idea!!!
How many series with minority leads have been successful?
BOSTON PUBLIC. THE PRACTICE.
What minority is Dylan McDermott a member of exactly? Christian?
Boston Public was short lived and The Practice had one african-american star (who we haven’t heard much from) and an overweight gal (does that qualify as a “minority”). JJ Abrams just tried “Undercovers” with two talented and unbelievably beautiful african-american leads and no one watched it. It doesn’t have to do with the skin color of the stars, it has to do with the writing. Period.
Maybe he does deserve a raise.
Didn’t a “Two and a half men” episode have a similar rating last week?
Point #1: Who seriously watches 2.5 Men for Sheen? He’s the weakest part of the show, hands down.
Point #2: What kind of a moron watches 2.5 Men for ANY reason?
Point #3: Harry’s Law is fantastic. Yes, I just turned 50, so I guess I “don’t count” in the demo anymore. But here’s a bulletin: I still have to work and buy products for the next 25 years…and I have a lot more money than some 18-year-old advertisers covet so much. You think I have no value as a viewer? You’re an idiot. At least I don’t fast-forward thru commercials.
I totally agree with all 3 points. I only watched 2 1/2 men once but I got the feeling Charlie wasn’t really acting. I think that’s actually who he is…an oversexed, immature man with serious insecurity.
As for Harry…it’s smart, so probably won’t last long. TV is programmed mostly for an audience of 13 year olds…or people who act like 13 year olds.
The big reason HARRY’S LAW
The appeal of HARRY’S LAW is like the old saying, “I’d watch that actor read the phone book.” Watching Kathy Bates’ jaded HARRY’S LAW character deal with a procession of nutty folks is worth the price of admission right there. Her character is the show’s center of credibility even if some of the situations are a stretch.
Replacing Charlie gets my vote. You could do it as a sociology experiment. Replace Charlie with some other dude and see how long it takes viewers to notice. My guess is the dimwits that watch the show would need about 15 episodes to figure it out.
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You must be one of those droopy eyed armless children that Sheen is talking about. He is a warlock and you will not stop him.
I thought Martin Sheen was Charlie’s father. But considering the way he’s acting, I think it’s clear Gary Busey is!
I watch Two and A Half Men because it’s really funny. Always the same episode though, but great writing. I can’t watch anything David Kelly any more. It’s sad that he’s fallen this far. I don’t hate Harry’s Law but it’s not good and he jumped the shark years ago.
“Boston Public was short lived”
Four full seasons is hardly short-lived.