Primetime Ratings: 'Carrie Diaries' Has Modest Premiere for CW

'How I Met Your Mother' hits season high in demo; 'Bones' draws season-best viewers

By Tim Baysinger -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/15/2013 11:31:39 AM

The CW's premiere of its highly-anticipated Sex and the City prequel The Carrie Diaries drew a 0.6 rating with adults 18-49 on Monday, according to Nielsen overnight numbers. In the net's targeted adults 18-34 demo, the premiere drew a 0.7 rating. While those were higher than what Gossip Girl had averaged for its final season (though on par with the series' final few episodes), they were below the net's other new dramas, Beauty and the Beast and Arrow. The CW finished with an overall 0.5 rating/1 share.

CBS returned its Monday lineup to win the night with an overall 3.3/8. How I Met Your Mother hit a season-high 3.8, up 12% from its last episode in December. 2 Broke Girls drew a 4.1, up 17% (it followed a repeat of the highly-rated Big Bang Theory) and Mike & Molly also improved 6% to a 3.5. Hawaii Five-0 returned flat with a 2.4.

ABC finished in second with a 2.2/6. The Bachelor was up 4% from last week's premiere to a 2.4 and Castle was even at 1.9.

Fox's Bones, airing back-to-back new episodes, reached a season-high 8.1 million total viewers for its 8 p.m. showing. Both episodes drew a 2.1 rating, which was up 11% from its last new original in December. Fox and NBC tied for third with a 2.1/5, though Fox had more overall viewers.

NBC's new drama Deception lost 20% in its second week to fall to a 1.6 at 10 p.m. Its lead-in The Biggest Loser was flat with last Monday with a 2.4 from 8-10 p.m.