RATINGS RECAP: 12/10/12

ABC
8:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Viewers: 4.5 million, 18-49 demo: 1.1
9:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Viewers: 4.7 million, 18-49 demo: 1.2
10:00 Castle (Repeat)
Viewers: 5.1 million, 18-49 demo: 1.1

CBS
8:00 How I Met Your Mother
Viewers: 8.8 million, 18-49 demo: 3.2
8:30 The Big Bang Theory (Repeat)
Viewers: 9.8 million, 18-49 demo: 3.0
9:00 2 Broke Girls
Viewers: 11.0 million, 18-49 demo: 3.7
9:30 2 Broke Girls
Viewers: 10.8 million, 18-49 demo: 3.8
10:00 Hawaii Five-0
Viewers: 9.8 million, 18-49 demo: 2.5

NBC
8:00 The Voice
Viewers: 12.3 million, 18-49 demo: 3.8
9:00 Take It All
Viewers: 7.1 million, 18-49 demo: 2.2
10:00 Michael Buble: Home for the Holidays
Viewers: 5.7 million, 18-49 demo: 1.4

FOX
8:00 American Country Awards
Viewers: 5.1 million, 18-49 demo: 1.4

On Monday night, NBC started with the final performance night of The Voice which was up two tenths in viewers and down a tenth in the demo. Though it slipped slightly, it held on a lot better this season than it did last spring. The series premiere of the December run of Take it All did ok but it was nothing special. It will be serviceable enough for the holiday season and if it can hold in these numbers in coming nights it might return again next December. If it drops a lot though, that won't happen. A Michael Buble special was weak at 10pm for NBC.

CBS was mostly new except for a repeat of The Big Bang Theory, which should just repeat every week since it does better in repeats than lots of shows do in their first run. First up, How I Met Your Mother was up half a million viewers and a tenth in the demo. After the Big Bang repeat, CBS aired two straight new episodes of 2 Broke Girls. Both were up from last week but down from the last time Broke followed a Big Bang repeat. The numbers are good but I think it should have done a little better with limited competition. At 10pm against very little competition, Hawaii Five-0 was up half a million viewers and two tenths in the demo for a season high. Over on ABC, another two specials of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition were low. I'm not sure ABC will bring this back again next December. FOX got low numbers for the American Country Awards, which pale to the CMA Awards.

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