Britney Spears helped CBS' "How I Met Your Mother" score its best ratings ever among adults 18-49 and a new season high in total viewers. The sitcom also outperformed its lead-in "The Big Bang Theory" by 2 million viewers. Check out Monday's figures along with the rest of the weekend ratings, after the jump.
On Saturday night, CBS' coverage of NCAA Basketball helped the Eye network beat ABC's traditional Easter rerun of the religious-themed "The Ten Commandments," as well as FOX's veteran reality line-up which normally wins the night.
But on Sunday night, Oprah Winfrey and the rest of ABC's reality line-up ensured that the Alphabet network beat CBS in both total viewers and adults 18-49. Nevertheless, NCAA Basketball was still stronger than "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," the hottest show on ABC's line-up.
Finally on Monday, in addition to record ratings for "How I Met Your Mother," CBS was on the top of its game also in the 10:00pm slot when "CSI: Miami" returned with its 2nd largest audience of the season.
SATURDAY:
ABC:
8:00pm MOVIE: The Ten Commandments (R) (7.91 million)
CBS:
8:00pm NCAA Basketball (8.99 million)
NBC:
8:00pm Celebrity Apprentice (R) (2.38 million)
9:00pm Law & Order: SVU (R) (5.20 million)
10:00pm Law & Order (R) (5.61 million)
Fox:
8:00pm Cops (5.42 million)
9:00pm America's Most Wanted (5.94 million)
SUNDAY:
ABC:
7:00pm America's Funniest Home Videos (R) (8.11 million)
8:00pm Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (11.14 million)
9:00pm Oprah's Big Give (9.92 million)
10:02pm Here Come the Newlyweds (6.94 million)
CBS:
7:00pm NCAA Basketball (11.98 million)
8:00pm 60 Minutes (10.26 million)
9:00pm Big Brother 9 (6.38 million)
10:00pm Cold Case (R) (6.10 million)
NBC:
7:00pm Dateline (6.10 million)
9:00pm Law & Order (R) (7.68 million)
10:00pm Law & Order: SVU (R) (8.02 million)
Fox:
7:00pm King of the Hill (R) (2.43 million)
7:30pm American Dad (R) (2.66 million)
8:00pm Simpsons (R) (4.78 million)
8:30pm Unhitched (3.14 million)
9:00pm Family Guy (R) (4.55 million)
9:30pm Unhitched (3.05 million)
CW:
7:00pm America's Next Top Model (R) (1.20 million)
8:00pm Everybody Hates Chris (992,000)
8:30pm Aliens in America (934,000)
9:00pm The Game (1.27 million)
9:30pm Girlfriends (R) (1.19 million)
MONDAY:
ABC:
8:00pm Dancing With the Stars (20.3 million)
10:02pm The Bachelor: London Calling (8.0 million)
CBS:
8:00pm The Big Bang Theory (8.63 million)
8:30pm How I Met Your Mother (10.62 million)
9:00pm Two and a Half Men (14.25 million)
9:30pm The New Adventures of Old Christine (9.87 million)
10:00pm CSI: Miami (15.8 million)
NBC:
8:00pm My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad (4.27 million)
9:00pm Deal or No Deal (9.99 million)
10:00pm Medium (8.82 million)
Fox:
8:00pm House (R) (7.61 million)
9:00pm New Amsterdam (6.28 million)
CW:
8:00pm Gossip Girl (R) (1.1 million)
9:00pm Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious (1.55 million)
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Oh, please. How I Met Your Mother didn't do a thing in the ratings. Britney Spears scored the highest ratings for the show, and nothing more. Next week it will fall in line with the rest of the CBS sitcoms. Everyone knows this was ratings stunt for the show. Let's see what How I Met Your Mother's ratings are next week, with no Britney. That is the true test.
ReplyDeleteOUCH!!! New Amsterdam 6.28 million... the bachelor could have done better starting to steam things up now. :D go Shayne Lamas
ReplyDeleteObviously the ratings for HIMYM will go down following the Britney stunt (I certainly hope that some viewers continue to watch).
ReplyDeleteI am still not sure if last week HIMYM also eclipsed TBBT because some people thought Britney would show up then, or whether the new timselot (being closer to TAAHM) will continue to pull in the good numbers. We're about to see soon.
In any event - go Barney, you sexy MF!
Well I only watched HIMYM for Britney - finally something postive in her life. She did good. I wont however be coming back to HIMYM - so it will be intresting to see how many new viewers to stick around.
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