Prime Time Preliminary Monday Ratings

"Gossip Girl" continues to perform for The CW, topping its premiere numbers and setting a high in adults 18 to 49 and adults 18 to 34 (2.7/8). Fox tied the night with CBS for first place. CBS sported comedy repeats, while Fox aired "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" and "Prison Break," down a respective 17% and 7% week-to-week. Both of NBC's shows hit lows for Monday originals.

	8	8:30	9	9:30	10
1.9 / 5	Movie: Batman Begins 1.9 / 5 5.7 mil
2.2 / 6	Big Bang Theory 1.9 / 6 6 mil	How I Met Your Mother 1.9 / 5 5.4 mil	Two and a Half Men 3.0 / 7 9.9 mil	Old Christine 2.3 / 6 7.3 mil	CSI: Miami 2.1 / 5 7.6 mil
2.2 / 6	Terminator: Sarah Connor 2.0 / 6 5.5 mil		Prison Break 2.4 / 6 5.9 mil		No Programming
1.7 / 4	Deal or No Deal 2.0 / 6 8.8 mil		America's Toughest Jobs 1.6 / 4 4.9 mil		Dateline 1.4 / 3 4.4 mil
1.8 / 5	Gossip Girl 1.9 / 5 3.7 mil		One Tree Hill 1.7 / 4 3.4 mil		No Programming

Source: Nielsen Media Research

*Ratings are specified in the 18-to 49-year-old demographic and viewership in P2+.

A note about ratings: Ratings are expressed as percentages of Nielsen's estimated 112.8 million U.S. television households. The first number, the rating, is a percentage of households tuned into a specific program at a specific time.

The second number, the share, is a percentage of households with televisions in use tuned into that same program. For example, if a show obtains a 10.2/16, this means that 10.2% of all U.S. households tuned into the program at some point during the broadcast. Meanwhile, 16% of all households watching television during the time period viewed the program at some point. Ratings are broken down further by demographic, as networks sell advertising time based on the makeup of the audience.