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Summer Week 3 Sitcom Ratings

Dog days of summer have begun. Week 3 Summer Ratings: Sitcom Edition:

Monday Sitcoms

• The King of Queens (CBS) - 6.64 million, good for first in its slot.
  
• How I Met Your Mother (CBS) - 6.45 million, up from previous two repeats by a lot.
  
• Two and a Half Men (CBS) - 9.87 million tuned for an encore, more than two million more from last week.
• New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS) - 8.18 million, down 500,000 viewers from last week's repeat.
• One on One (UPN), All of Us (UPN), Girlfriends, Half & Half (UPN) - Repeats of these sitcoms were all over 2 million. Nice job this week.
  

Tuesday Sitcoms

• According to Jim (ABC) - Aired before the NBA game in most markets, but after the game out west Did 4.62 million.
  

Wednesday Sitcoms

• George Lopez (ABC) - 4.4 million, down a bit from previous week.
  
• Freddie (ABC) - 4.05 million, slightly down from last week.
  

Thursday Sitcoms

• My Name is Earl (NBC) - 5.46 million, down from all the episodes that aired last week.
• The Office (NBC) - 4.98 million for a rebroadcast.
  
• That '70s Show (Fox) 2 eps - 3.25 million at 8 p.m., but jumped to 4.33 million at 8:30, as viewers were probably waiting for So You Think You Can Dance or the NBA Finals.
  
• Everybody Hates Chris, Love Inc, Eve, Cuts (UPN) - Chris only did well with 2.58 million and the others ranged from 1.24-1.6 million--ouch.

Friday Sitcoms

• What I Like About You, Twins, Reba, Living with Fran (The WB) - All dead last place. Reba was the highest rated one obviously. The rest are canceled shows scoring a 1.0 and 1.1 rating.
  
• Hope & Faith (ABC) - Two episodes averaged only 2.7/5 rating, good for second in its slot, though as Fox is dead with repeats of 24 and NBC keeps repeating Windfall like everyday.

Sitcoms tonight (Sunday) are...two more Reba episodes on The WB from 7 to 8, Fox with Malcolm in the Middle at 7 followed by the animated comdies from 7:30 to 9:30 and a Fox airing of the FX sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia at 9:30.