CBS comedies impress Monday

On the evening when football and postseason baseball likely distracted many audiences across the nation , particularly in the Area , CBS comedies ongoing their hot go to start the growing season, declaring Monday's top four shows among teenagers.ESPN was likely to win the evening in grown ups 18-49 using its ''Monday Evening Football'' game between Chicago and Detroit, which gained an 11.3 overnight household rating in Nielsen's metered-marketplaces. This is actually the the second best ESPN overnight this year, behind the 12.3 for Washington-Dallas on Sept. 26, which converted to some 7.1 national 18-49 rating.Also, Fox broadcast a baseball playoff game that went extra innings and extended nearly an hour or so into primetime in much of the nation, and The best spinner's broadcast a baseball playoff game between St. Louis and Milwaukee.At CBS, ''How I Met Your Mother'' continued to be strong but was lower from the blazing pace to begin the growing season (3.9/11 in 18-49, 8.9 million audiences overall), and rookie ''2 Broke Girls'' astounded by building on contributing-in (4.2/10 in 18-49, 10.six million audiences overall). It had been then the 4th episode of Ashton Kutcher on ''Two . 5 Men'' (5.8/13 in 18-49, 15.9 million audiences overall), that was lower a little week to week but nonetheless was as quickly the very best-ranked entertainment program from the evening. Also, ''Mike and Molly'' remains potent at 9:30 p.m. (4./9 in 18-49, 11.8 million audiences overall), and ''Hawaii Five-0'' was the very best 10 p.m. drama in demos (2.6/6 in 18-49, 9.7 million audiences overall) , although it was lower opposite the large football and additional drama competition from Fox.Fox's evening was screwed up with a extended, 11-inning baseball playoff game between Detroit and Texas that did not wrap until 8:52 p.m. ET. Which makes amounts for that relaxation from the evening murky, but Fox's stations averaged a couple.6/6 in 18-49 and 6.9 million audiences overall within the 9 o'clock hour (mostly ''Terra Nova'') along with a 2.3/6 in 18-49 and 5.9 million audiences overall within the 10 o'clock hour (mostly ''House'').ABC's ''Dancing Using the Stars'' held steady week to week (3.1/8 in 18-49, 17. million audiences overall), and ''Castle'' was lower a little (2.4/6 in 18-49, 11.two million audiences overall) , though these amounts are susceptible to revision within the excellent because they incorporate a football preemption around the ABC station in Detroit. Within the prelims, ''Dancing'' was the night's most-viewed program overall.NBC's Monday went from bad to worse, as ''The Sing Off'' dipped to some season low (1.4/4 in 18-49, 4.3 million audiences overall) along with a repeat of ''Prime Suspect'' , changing cancelled drama ''The Playboy Club'' , settled for any .7/2 in 18-49 and a pair of.9 million audiences overall.And also at CW, both ''Gossip Girl'' (.6/2 in 18-49, 1.3 million audiences overall) and ''Hart of Dixie'' (.6/one in 18-49, 1.5 million audiences overall) dropped week to week. In grown ups 18-34, ''Gossip'' did b .8/2, and ''Hart'' did b .7/2.Preliminary 18-49 earnings for that evening: CBS, 3.9/9 ABC, 2.9/7 Fox, 2.7/7 Univision, 1.4/3 NBC, 1.2/3 CW, .6/1.As a whole audiences: ABC, 15.a million CBS, 11.a million Fox, 7.7 million NBC, 3.8 million Univision, 3.3 million CW, 1.4 million. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com