{"id":22050,"date":"2014-01-10T13:51:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T17:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=22050"},"modified":"2014-01-10T18:22:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T22:22:18","slug":"big-bang-theory-ratings-climb-viewership-hits-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/01\/10\/big-bang-theory-ratings-climb-viewership-hits-time-high\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Big Bang Theory&#8221; Ratings Climb; Viewership Hits All-Time High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><b>Update:<\/b>  The final Nielsen data painted an even better picture of Thursday&#8217;s &#8220;The Big Bang Theory.&#8221;  The episode drew a 5.7 adults 18-49 with 20.35 million viewers.<\/em><br \/>\n=========<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s &#8220;The Big Bang Theory,&#8221; the last of this season&#8217;s episodes to air without competition from &#8220;American Idol,&#8221; dominated the nightly ratings race.<\/p>\n<p>Up from last week&#8217;s 5.4, this week&#8217;s 5.6 adults 18-49 rating represented the show&#8217;s best young adult performance since February 21, 2013.  Its 7.5 mark in adults 25-54, meanwhile, was the best since February 7.<\/p>\n<p>The show&#8217;s achievement in the viewership category was even more impressive.  Thursday&#8217;s episode, which drew 20.08 million viewers, was the most-watched regularly scheduled &#8220;Big Bang Theory&#8221; to date.<\/p>\n<p>Only the second part of this season&#8217;s premiere, which attracted 20.44 million viewers in its special 8:30PM timeslot, attracted a larger overall audience.<\/p>\n<p>Benefiting from the strong &#8220;Big Bang Theory&#8221; lead-in and an absence of daunting competition from rival networks, CBS&#8217; other series also performed well Thursday.  &#8220;The Millers&#8221; matched its series high 3.3 adults 18-49 rating and set a new series high with 13.61 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Crazy Ones&#8221; (2.4, 9.62 million), &#8220;Two and a Half Men&#8221; (2.4, 9.48 million) and &#8220;Elementary&#8221; (2.0, 9.85 million) also enjoyed week-over-week gains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048,437],"tags":[275,882,150,276,924,366],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The Big Bang Theory&quot; 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