TV Ratings: Monday (May 12, 2008)

ABC's "Samantha Who?" and "The Bachelor" ended their respective seasons last night, Britney Spears hit Barney's sheets again on "How I Met Your Mother," and a new season of "American Gladiators" premiered on NBC. How well did all they do? Monday's ratings, a click away.

Ouch! That's gotta hurt. The 2nd season of NBC's "American Gladiators" redux opened on a very disappointing note pulling in fewer than 5 million viewers. The trip down memory lane has obviously worn off. Now, if only NBC learned to come up with original ideas. Perhaps they would last longer.

The reappearance of Britney Spears on "How I Met Your Mother" could not lift the show to the same level as her original appearance in March (10.5 million), but the comedy did break the 9 million mark and help score almost 15% more pairs of eyeballs than its lead-in "The Big Bang Theory."

ABC:
8:00pm Dancing With the Stars (18.27 million)
9:32pm Samantha Who? [season 1 finale] (11.02 million)
10:02pm The Bachelor: London Calling [season finale] (9.19 million)

CBS:
8:00pm The Big Bang Theory (7.88 million)
8:30pm How I Met Your Mother (9.02 million)
9:00pm Two and a Half Men (13.70 million)
9:30pm Rules of Engagement (10.72 million)
10:00pm CSI: Miami (13.66 million)

NBC:
8:00pm American Gladiators [season 2 premiere] (4.92 million)
10:00pm Medium [season 4 finale] (8.57 million)

Fox:
8:00pm Bones (9.42 million)
9:00pm House (14.84 million)

The CW:
8:00pm Gossip Girl (2.64 million)
9:00pm One Tree Hill (2.65 million)

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