RATINGS RECAP: 10/21/13

ABC
8:00 Dancing with the Stars
Viewers: 13.4 million, 18-49 demo: 2.0
10:00 Castle
Viewers: 10.6 million, 18-49 demo: 1.9

CBS
8:00 How I Met Your Mother
Viewers: 7.6 million, 18-49 demo: 3.0
8:30 2 Broke Girls
Viewers: 7.4 million, 18-49 demo: 2.5
9:00 The Big Bang Theory (Repeat)
Viewers: 7.9 million, 18-49 demo: 2.4
9:30 Mom
Viewers: 7.3 million, 18-49 demo: 2.3
10:00 Hostages
Viewers: 5.2 million, 18-49 demo: 1.2

NBC
8:00 The Voice
Viewers: 13.7 million, 18-49 demo: 4.3
10:00 The Blacklist
Viewers: 10.4 million, 18-49 demo: 3.0 

FOX
8:00 Bones
Viewers: 7.6 million, 18-49 demo: 2.2
9:00 Sleepy Hollow (Repeat)
Viewers: 3.2 million, 18-49 demo: 1.0 

On Monday night, things were pretty close to average for most shows. On CBS, How I Met Your Mother started things off down four tenths in viewers and even in the demo. At 8:30pm, the second week of 2 Broke Girls in the 8:30pm slot was down six tenths in viewers and a tenth in the demo. After an improved The Big Bang Theory, Mom was down a tenth in viewers but up three tenths in the demo for its best showing since the series premiere. This was an impressive performance from Mom which has been extremely compatible with whatever has been in front of it this season. It looks like it earned its full season. At 10pm, Hostages was dead even in viewers and the demo for a third week in a row.

Over on ABC, Dancing with the Stars was up four tenths in viewers but down a tenth in the demo while Castle was down half a million viewers and three tenths in the demo. I'm not sure what explains Castle swinging up and down lately. On NBC, The Voice was down two tenths in viewers and the demo. The Blacklist was down half a million viewers but even in the demo for the first time all season as it has stabilized and is looking more and more impressive especially with its huge week two DVR gains reported. Finally on FOX, the wedding episode of Bones was up three tenths in viewers and two tenths in the demo. This was to be the final Monday showing of Bones but it will now get two additional Mondays paired with Sleepy Hollow because Almost Human's planned November 4 debut was pushed back to a two day debut starting after football on November 17.