TV ratings: FOX has a 'House' party Monday

Go Life Unexpected! The ratings improved!!!

MOEW is stuppid

It's a pattern that has repeated itself over the past few years as FOX has practically ceased to promote the show, preferring to ceaselessly promote whichever Seth McFarlane du jour show.

In other words, I often know when there is a new Family Guy even though I have no desire to watch it and discover that the Simpsons of the week was new when I check my DVR.

Your experience may vary of course. ;)

I generally agree with you on Medium vs. Ghost Whisperer.

I am a fan of neither mainly because of the stars. I never cared for Patricia Arquette even though she is a good actress. Frankly I'm not sure why, and Jennifer Love Hewitt can be OK in particular parts, and this is not one of them. She is cringe inducing anytime she opens her mouth on Ghost Whisperer.

I have grown to respect Medium more as I re-discovered it on syndication and certainly would agree it is by far the better made show.

What you pointed out about CBS backing Ghost lot more than NBC did Medium probably accounts for GW still being on the air (that and the tyranny of low expectations!)

That said I don't think either show has much of a long run at this point as CBS, if it doesn't want to sink to lower ratings as the other networks have will want to renew its Friday night relatively quickly.

I do see a much brighter life for Medium in Syndication as good acting always seems to carry the load when the stories are already known.

I'm not sure where you see "titans" in FOX's Sunday lineup these days. The Simpsons used to be a titan and I guess still deserves the appellation :) but the rest of the lineup is peopled with ratings dwarves.

Putting American Dad back is not going to solve any of FOX's problems on Sunday nights.

The increased ratings for Minutes to Win It would be more impressive if it didn't reflect the general increase in viewership between 7 and 8. Still it is quite interesting to note.

Given that you mentioned the all-UNimportant demo numbers, I assume this information is used by NBC to spin the numbers of the show as once again, if you go past the spin, they are just not all that impressive.

Generally it's pretty clear that more than a decade of Jeff Zucker-led mis-management and bad show picks have left NBC in a dire financial position, a position that has been made even more dire by NBC's decisions: 1- to splurge on pilots by "big name" producers, most of whom never delivered for them and 2- to renew its Thursday low-rated lineup wholesale, insuring a continued erosion next year on a still important night.

I can't help but wonder in which class of their MBAs the NBC team learned to do that... ;)

This is the lowest viewership for "House" this season. I guess everyone is finaly tiring of the endless House/Wilson jokefest.

Or maybe fans of the real show are tired of the lovey dovey hoopla and want it to go back to a medical show.
I didn't watch it Monday due to the fact the show this season is horrid.

I have no idea why someone copied and pasted one of my posts...

Go figure!

For those curious I was talking about The Simpsons when I wrote "the show". :)

In any case, it was slim pickings for House while 24 rebounded slightly (albeit thanks in part to continual efforts to promote it) but still at a level that confirms FOX made the right decision in finishing the show this season.

FOX needs shows like House that deliver without costing a fortune in PR.

At CBS How I Met Your Mother didn't re-run particularly well but still beat an original of the much hyped Chuck which still isn't performing (like the rest of NBC's sched)

At NBC, Trauma's numbers confirmed why NBC was right when it canceled it and wrong when it brought it back to fill one of its many programming holes, as 20 year-old Law and Order was its highest rated show... (!!)

At CW ratings were still in sampling error territory with Gossip Girl still setting records for futility while celebrating another renewal (the question remains how CW can renew a show with such low ratings and hope to have a good year next year!)

I'm sad to see such a great episode of Chuck get such poor ratings. If the ratings don't improve, there probably won't be a Season Four.

I am sad, Chuck had its lowest ratings of the season. AND IT WAS A GREAT EPISODE! John Casey finally getting some background, Adam Baldwin is terrific!.

I hope it doesn't get cancelled, but this is NBC....and they did give it another chance and it's starting to fail....urgh. Love ya "Chuck", hope you stick around!

Rick, Rick, Rick.

It's not "daylight savings time," it's "daylight-saving time."

If you wouldn't say, "gas savings advice," why would you say "daylight savings time?"

Please. Oh, and, by the way, feel free to mix in a hyphen. Rule of thumb: If you turn a two-or-more word phrase (daylight-savings), at least one of which is a noun, into an adjective (i.e. to modify "curse"), put a hyphen in. It's just plain English.

Sorry, Rick, I don't mean to pick on you, but you're my fave writer here and I don't like to see you fail.

I expect that kind of writing from the MIM (Morons in America), but you claim to write as your profession - so do your best to at least act professional.

Even though it was against CBS repeats last night, "24" was up by 0.3 million viewers from last week. Pleased by the increase, even though it's only a slight increase.

I think Law & Order got 5.9 million viewers last Monday, so even though it was against a repeat of Castle and CSI: Miami the increase of a million viewers is good to see.