Numbers of Interest - Television Ratings for Monday 12/07/09

Predictably, CBS won the night against repeats with new episodes of How I Met Your Mother (3.5), Accidentally on Purpose (2.8), Two and a Half Men (5.0), an insanely good The Big Bang Theory (5.6), and CSI: Miami (3.7).

Fox came in second with the Carrie Underwood Holiday Special (2.3). I wonder if Fox would have done better airing the special on Tuesday and air a repeat of House.

ABC came in next with Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (2.5), Find My Family (1.5), and Castle (2.1). Castle had a huge drop for many possible reasons. Weaker lead-in, one week break, football, etc..

NBC finished last with repeats of Law & Order: SVU (1.4, 1.6) and The Jay Leno Show (1.4). Law & Order usually repeats well, but people that usually watch Heroes and Trauma of course only like bad television (I jest...or not) so they tuned out. The usual people that watch L&O repeats didn't know it would be repeating on a Monday.