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RATINGS RAT RACE: Quiet End For World Series, CBS Comedies Gain Led By ‘Men’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 2, 2010 @ 9:59am PDTTags: ABC Ratings, Castle, CBS Ratings, Chuck, CW Ratings, Dancing With The Stars, Fox Ratings, Fox World Series, Fox World Series Ratings, Gossip Girl, How I Met Your Mother, Mike & Molly, NBC Ratings, Ratings, Ratings Rat Race, Rules of Engagement, The Event, The Women of SNL, Timothy Dalton, TV Ratings, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

It was a disappointingly short and uneventful run for the World Series this year as the San Francisco Giants wrapped things up in Game 5 to win the first title for the franchise since it moved cross country in 1958. The game between the Giants and the Rangers drew a 4.2 rating in 18-49 and 14.9 total viewers on Fox, down 21% from last year’s Game 5 featuring the Yankees and up 5% in 18-49 and 13% in total viewers from the non-Yankees Game 5 in 2008, which was plagued by rain delay. Fox is projected to win Monday in adults 18-49, while ABC was No.1 in total viewers for a seventh straight week.

The controversy surrounding Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen resulted in a 9% ratings bump for the veteran CBS comedy, which drew a 4.7/11 in adults 18-49, up from a 4.3/11 in the fast nationals last week to rank as the top program of the night in the demo. (All CBS comedies went up by a tenth in the finals last week.) The other CBS comedy to make headlines last week, Mike & Molly, the object of the infamous Marie Claire column about fat people on TV, didn’t get a boost. It was flat with the freshman comedy’s fast national number last week. CBS posted big gains in the 8 PM hour with How I Met Your Mother (3.7/10) up 16% and Rules of Engagement (3.4/9) up 17% vs. last Monday’s fast nationals. At 10 PM, Hawaii Five-0 was up 7% to edge out Castle (2.8/7) after losing the demo battle in the hour to the ABC crime dramedy for the first time last week.

NBC’s Chuck (2.0/5) was up a tenth to match its season high with an episode that introduced Timothy Dalton as the season’s uber-villain Volkoff. The network’s two-hour special The Women of SNL (2.0/5) was soft, down 31% from the most recent SNL in the 2000′s special which aired on Thursday, but actually improved NBC’s performance in the 9-11 PM slot last week when The Event logged a 2.0 and Chase a 1.3 in the demo.

ABC’s Dancing with the Stars (4.0/10) was down 5% or two tenths from its fast national last week, while Castle (2.9/8) was down a tenth.

CW posted its most watched Monday of the season for a second straight week with an average of a little over 2 million viewers, slightly higher than last week’s tally. 90210 (2.05 million) hit a season high in total viewers, while Gossip Girl (1.98 million) had its second most watched episode of the season.

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‘Saturday Night Live’ Suckfest This Season

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday October 31, 2010 @ 12:23am PDTTags: Saturday Night Live, SNL, The Women of SNL, TV, TV Comedy

OK, I’ve watched almost an hour of Saturday Night Live tonight and it SUCKS. Just like its other shows opening this season. When they can’t even find anything amusing to say about Halloween, it’s time to hang it up. Jeez, why … Read More »

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