TV ratings: 'Dancing,' 'Big Bang' and 'House' top Monday

It is clear that CBS is grooming BIG BANG to replace TWO AND A HALF MEN when that series retires....and with good reason! They have already renewed BIG BANG through May 2011, and last night's BIG BANG was hysterical!! I am a huge 30 ROCK fan, but TBBT is the best "traditional" sitcom on TV.

OMG! I can't believe Meow hasn't gotten here to ruin my morning yet!?!?1

looks like dancing with the stars crowbered HOUSE, but house did well in the 18 to 49 yo, that show with an all new cast is such a snooze fest now, so not sure why peopel still watch it when Private Practice is a great alternative. Lie to me is waiting to get cancelled, looksl iek people rather watch castle and csi mimi over that should have been cancelled last year only had rating because of idol show, look s like someone lied to them! Did NBC even have programing on... seriously with the exception of the office who really watches nbc, embaressing.

I can't imagine anyone in contemporary society actually sitting through any of the CBS sitcoms. Outdated, antiquated, forced, unfunny. Time to put the laughtrack out to pasture.

Enough with the double winners already.

ABC won the night. That's all there is to it.

18-49 doesn't even bring in more ad money, so why have it be more than a foot note? (although it's amusing to see CBS getting that pseudo-distinction this time).

Overall, audience levels are petering out as House delivered another boring episode centered not on House, but on the bad acting of Jennifer Morrison (thankfully it's apparently coming ot an end, but not before the damage will have been wreakedon the ratings of the show. It appears that the producers are doing this to lighten the load on Hugh Lowry and Robert Sean Leonard, but frankly, they'd be better off cutting down on the number of episodes than producing those bad shows. Greg Yaitanes, who is a decent director outside House gave his now usual asleep at the wheel directorial touch which is barely less bad than last week's awful direction. It's really sad to see a good show jump the shark like that (but House has come back from multiple apparent jumping of the shark so we'll see).

Overall, audience levels are petering out.

Sorry for the slightly OT. Had to get it off my chest. :)

Back to ratings, NBC was a non-entity with Leno delivering the bad ratings everyone but NBC believed it would and Heroes showing that it was dead ratings-wise several years ago while Trauma is yet another bomb.

at ABC DWTS continues to "dominate" through lack of competition as CBS has clearly let its line-up age to the point of collapse and neither Accidentally on purpose nor Big Bang Theory are going to help revive it.

ABC's CASTLE continues to be a time-slot "hit".

CW continues to try and make NBC look less bad as Gossip Girl, the show that every new show on CW is modeled after is the lowest-rated show of the night, while on FOX, Lie To Me continues to squander House's diminishing lead-in.

Overall, a very sad night for the networks as their real hits keep sliding and they have nothing new coming in to shore up the ratings.

Of course, we'll read that this was unavoidable and the result of societal trends, but really, who at FOX thought Lie To Me would magically become a hit in its second year? Who at CBS thought that CSI Miami would get better ratings if it was shot on video and looked like a soap? Who at CW doesn't realize Gossip Girl is a bomb?

Those blows are all self-inflicted.

Jennifer Morrison is even more annoying than Katherine Giggle on Greys Anatomy. Both of them need to leave already and realize it was the writter who made their characters and not their bad verison of a soap star acting. Hope next season CBS stops with the 80s laugh track sitcomes and another spin of their boring crime shows. Funny how viwers woudl rather watch the same show concept over and over and over.

Katherine Giggle? I give up!!!

Rena, did you really watch House's Instant Karma last night? Because the episode didn't center on Jennifer Morrison but on Olivia Wilde/Thirteen and her long leaving the team arc even if she can't act and Jesse Spencer's brilliant performance.

Tim, all those CBS comedies, no matter how aged, are actually the highest-rated comedies on TV. You may not like them, but why would you insult (albeit obliquely) the people who like them?

It just doesn't have a place here or anywhere to do that. :(

On that note I really miss Topix, which was a much more friendly place and where you could post responses quickly instead of having to wait for zap2it's malfunctioning posting engine to work or not.

I'm glad to see Castle doing well. I love this show.