Ratings: Downton Abbey Debuts Strong The Bachelor Lower Again

Downton Abbey What's this?!? There's some composed of taste?!? Downton Abbey's Season 2 premiere averaged 4.2 million audiences. Nielsen data on Tuesday shown the Emmy-winning series' return Sunday evening bending the normal PBS prime-time rating, and marked an 18 percent hop within the show's first-season average - which made PBS ecstatic. PBS Leader/Boss Paula Kerger mentioned: "I'm so pleased that audiences have clustered for his or her local PBS station and Downton Abbey to relish the very best drama on television this season.In . Read our recap in the Bachelor The second installment in the Bachelor, however, which first demonstrated the other day to 7.74 million audiences (lower about 13 percent when compared with this past year, declined to 7.24 million, or about 7 percent, preliminary Nielsen data shows. Week 2 also saw a decrease with a 2.2 rating from 2.4 among industry-valued 18-to-49-year-olds. Despite the fact that eventual cable amounts surely might have the national football league and nfl and college football national title game involving the Alabama Crimson Tide and LSU Tigers was most likely probably the most-seen program on television Monday evening, fans apparently weren't everything psyched to look for the rematch. It attracted a 13.8 overnight rating, lower fourteen percent from a year ago as well as the worst rating since 2002. Since it switched out, it absolutely was a lesser year (about ten percent) for your bowl games on ESPN, as theRose, Orange and Sugar Bowls, together with the BCS title game, all declined this season. See the relaxation in the day's news on TVGuide.com 8 p.m.CBS: The Way In Which I Met Your Mother [rerun] 6.52 million audiences (2.2 demo rating) 2 Broke Women [rerun] 7.22 million (2.4)ABC: The Bachelor 7.24 million (2.2) Fox: House [rerun] 3.26 million (1.)NBC: Who's Still Standing? 6.17 million (1.6)CW: Gossip Girl [rerun] 739,000 (.3) 9 p.m.CBS: two and a half Males [rerun] 8.33 million audiences (2.2 demo rating) Mike & Molly [rerun] 7.80 million (2.3)NBC: Fear Factor 5.47 million (2.2)Fox: House [rerun] 3.28 million (1.2)CW: Hart of Dixie [rerun] 850,000 (.3) 10 p.m.CBS: Hawaii Five- [rerun] 6.04 million audiences (1.6 demo rating)ABC: Castle 9.75 million (2.3)NBC: Rock Center with John Williams 2.84 million (.6)