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Ratings: DWTS Partners with 20.9 Mil; Mother Sparkles

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Dancing with the Stars by Michael Desmond/ABC
Monday's ratings highlights:

8 pm/ET
Dancing with the Stars returned to an audience of 20.9 million total viewers, down a bit from the Season 6 kickoff. Both The Big Bang Theory (9.11 mil) and How I Met Your Mother: Pre-Britney Edition (9.73 mil) were up 14 percent from their last fresh episodes. Canterbury's Law (5.66 mil) dropped 25 percent of its premiere audience.

9 pm
Opposite the last 30 minutes of DWTS, Two and Half Men (14.03 mil) was down 1.3 mil from its last new ep. The Bachelor did 8.96 mil, a 600 thou slip from the previous edition's debut. New Amsterdam pulled 7.3 mil, down another 17 percent. Girlicious (1.57 mil) dipped a hair.

10 pm
Medium (9.9 mil) surged 700K to best a CSI: Miami repeat and the 10 o'clock hour of Bachelor.

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Posted by TV Guide News
Mar 18, 2008 12:24 PM
How did the "New Adventures of Old Christine" do?
Posted by SNLfan
Mar 18, 2008 12:32 PM
How did the "New Adventures of Old Christine" do?

One report says it did about 11.45 mil and was number one in its timeslot in demos. Good news.
Posted by MattW
Mar 18, 2008 12:49 PM
Yeah for HIMYM! I love this show! Hopefully the numbers will keep growing.
Posted by Megan
Mar 18, 2008 12:57 PM
woohoo! Mother built on Big Bang. That's great news, right?
Posted by Leah
Mar 18, 2008 1:12 PM
I was actually surprised that HIMYM ratings were so high. I mean they got a 4.3 in 18-49 (Maybe some of those people belong the the Chuck audience). I can't remember the last time their demo was that high. And this wasn't even the Britney episode. Hopefully, next week it gets an even bigger audience. Either way, I am pretty sure they are going to bring it back for a fourth season.
Posted by Chris Kw.
Mar 18, 2008 1:31 PM
@Leah - On HIMYM, I suspect that, with all the press, a lot of people tuned into this episode thinking it was the Spears one. Which makes me think next weeks episode is going to be pretty epic ratings wise.

But as far as good/bad news for the show I'm not sure this proves anything. It will be the few episodes after the Britney-Press that CBS uses to decide on renewal so I don't think we'll know where HIMYM stands for at least a couple weeks
Posted by ThomasC22
Mar 18, 2008 1:31 PM
It sucks no one's watching Canterbury's Law. I think there's so much more to delve into, and now I'm afraid I'm sucked into another show that's going to get canned early.

Thanks a lot, Fox! 8pm on a Monday...brilliant.
Posted by hugebravesfan
Mar 18, 2008 2:53 PM
11.45 million for New Christine is correct.

Yay for New Christine and HIMYM.

Maybe we'll get a full order of New Christine this year!! Thank GOD more people are watching! Matt Roush must be thrilled!

......and maybe both shows can finally not be on the bubble.
Posted by nsgal
Mar 18, 2008 7:09 PM
Canterbury's Law and New Amsterdam are good shows. They just got stampeded by too many returning favorites on the other networks. I'll watch them until FOX kills them like all the other shows I grew to love that they killed.
Posted by BOZMAN54
Mar 19, 2008 7:57 AM
Personally I didn't find the promo commercials for Canterbury's Law enticing or set it apart from any other lawyer show so I passed on it. I gave New Amsterdam a chance an it's ok, but if it gets canceled it's no big loss.

Good new for HIMYM, but still dreading the Britney episode next week.
Posted by wildbill
Mar 19, 2008 12:46 PM
I heard a rumor New Adventures of Old Christine isn't coming back. Is that possible?
Where could we write to beg?
Posted by mschenten
Apr 10, 2008 9:57 PM
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