TV Rankings: 'Bachelor Pad' Finale, 'Hell's Kitchen' on the top

Ron Rowell/ABC It appears like ABC's Bachelor Pad finale and Fox's Hell's Kitchen were the very best primetime programs Monday evening. Based on preliminary amounts (inflated because of local National football league pre-emptions on ABC), the 3-hour Bachelor Pad block powered ABC for that nightly win both in total audiences and also the ad-coveted grown ups 18-49 demographic. The very first hour, The Ultimate Challenge, averaged 7.4 million along with a 2.2 rating, as the final two hrs came 6.9 million along with a 2.3. Still, Fox's Hell's Kitchen (5.7 million, 2.4) set up a fight, despite the fact that the Gordon Ramsay reality series was lower 11 percent. On its first evening against Monday Evening Football on ESPN, Fox rated No. 2 for that evening within the grown ups 18-49 and grown ups 18-34 demos, with Hell's Kitchen because the evening's top-ranked enter in both groups. NBC's telecast from the 61st Miss World Pageant (4.six million, 1.6) was lower 16 percent in comparison to this past year's effort, which makes it the cheapest-ranked ever. Because the CW prepares to produce its anticipated thriller Ringer with Sarah Michelle Gellar on Tuesday, the network broadcast a girl Gaga special, Gaga By Gaultier, that came 1.4 million in the 8 p.m. time slot -- its most-viewed hour because the Supernatural season finale in May. An autumn preview (968K, .4) of their programming adopted. TV Rankings