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Ratings: Heroes grows
By Colin Mahan - TV.com
November 21, 2006 at 10:23:00 AM | more stories by this author
NBC drama scores its best ratings of the season.
Heroes Save the cheerleader, save NBC.
NBC's Heroes scored its highest rating yet, helping NBC to its eighth Monday-night win of the fall season. The episode, which featured the culmination of the "save the cheerleader, save the world" storyline, scored a 6.9 ratings in 18-49-year-olds, with 16 million viewers, according to Nielsen overnights. The numbers puts Heroes in the same class as the show it's most frequently compared to, ABC's Lost.
At 8 p.m., NBC scored a 4.9 with Deal or No Deal, with Fox nabbing a 4.0 for Prison Break. ABC earned a combined 3.2 for Charlie Brown specials, and CBS took a combined 3.1 for How I Met Your Mother and The Class. The CW won a combined 1.3 for Everybody Hates Chris and All of Us.
At 9, Heroes clocked in with a 6.9, CBS scored a combined 4.3 for Two and a Half Men and The New Adventures of Old Christine. Fox landed a 3.0 for a House rerun, and ABC earned a 2.7 for The Bachelor: Rome. CW took a combined 1.1 for Girlfriends and The Game.
At 10 o'clock, CBS nabbed a 5.9 for CSI: Miami, and NBC's Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip scored a 3.1. ABC landed with a 2.4 for What About Brian.
Overall, NBC scored a 5.0 rating/12 share in 18-49s, with 13.3 million average viewers; CBS, 4.4/11, 13.4 million; Fox, 3.5/9, 9.0 million; ABC, 2.8/7, 7.4 million; and the CW, 1.2/3, 2.9 million.
By Colin Mahan - TV.com
November 21, 2006 at 10:23:00 AM | more stories by this author
NBC drama scores its best ratings of the season.
Heroes Save the cheerleader, save NBC.
NBC's Heroes scored its highest rating yet, helping NBC to its eighth Monday-night win of the fall season. The episode, which featured the culmination of the "save the cheerleader, save the world" storyline, scored a 6.9 ratings in 18-49-year-olds, with 16 million viewers, according to Nielsen overnights. The numbers puts Heroes in the same class as the show it's most frequently compared to, ABC's Lost.
At 8 p.m., NBC scored a 4.9 with Deal or No Deal, with Fox nabbing a 4.0 for Prison Break. ABC earned a combined 3.2 for Charlie Brown specials, and CBS took a combined 3.1 for How I Met Your Mother and The Class. The CW won a combined 1.3 for Everybody Hates Chris and All of Us.
At 9, Heroes clocked in with a 6.9, CBS scored a combined 4.3 for Two and a Half Men and The New Adventures of Old Christine. Fox landed a 3.0 for a House rerun, and ABC earned a 2.7 for The Bachelor: Rome. CW took a combined 1.1 for Girlfriends and The Game.
At 10 o'clock, CBS nabbed a 5.9 for CSI: Miami, and NBC's Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip scored a 3.1. ABC landed with a 2.4 for What About Brian.
Overall, NBC scored a 5.0 rating/12 share in 18-49s, with 13.3 million average viewers; CBS, 4.4/11, 13.4 million; Fox, 3.5/9, 9.0 million; ABC, 2.8/7, 7.4 million; and the CW, 1.2/3, 2.9 million.