Weekly Ratings: 1/25 – 1/30

Sunday Ratings: CBS Sweeps with a Hot Case and Good Loving

7 pm/ET
60 Minutes dominated with an audience of 14.16 million, kicking off the Eye's Sunday sweep in total viewers. ABC, however, led each hour in the 18-49 demo.

8 pm
An early airing of Cold Case topped the pack with 13.33 million viewers (up eight percent from its last fresh outing). Extreme Makeover: Home Edition's mission to makeover an entire town averaged 11.6 mil over its two-hour run.

9 pm
The battle of the TV-movies pitted CBS/Hallmark's Loving Leah against the first half of NBC's The Last Templar mini. With both trailing Extreme Makeover, Leah claimed second with 11.7 million viewers. Templar took third with 9.85 mil.

10 pm
A repeat of Housewives' moving 100th episode drew 6.6 mil, and bested both Leah and Last Templar in demos.

Monday Ratings: House Hits New High, 24 Keeps Ticking

8 pm/ET
House repeated as champ, delivering a new season high of 15.56 million total viewers ((up 800K week-to-week). And next week's episode? Very powerful stuff. The Bachelor similarly enjoyed a season's best — 10.58 mil, up 670 thousand. Superstars of Dance placed fourth (behind CBS comedy repeats) with 6.7 mil (up 260K).

9 pm
24 inched up a bit to best nearly all comers (save for a Two and a Half Men repeat) with an audience of 12.13 million. (That President Taylor gives a damn fine pep talk, doesn't she? Top Moment, I say!) Part 2 of NBC's The Last Templar miniseries dug up 8.27 million viewers, down 16 percent from its Sunday premiere.

10 pm
Trailing both a CSI: Miami repeat and The Last Templar, ABC's True Beauty attracted seven million viewers (up 18 percent).

Tuesday Ratings: Scrubs Comes to Life as Mentalist Sits

8 pm/ET
American Idol led the night with 25.2 million total viewers, a 12-percent increase over last week's Obama-cized setback. NCIS placed a strong second with 19 mil, up 500K. The Biggest Loser gained eight percent, weighing in with an audience of 11 mil.

9 pm
A Mentalist repeat won the hour, copping 15.13 million viewers. Placing third (behind Biggest Loser) was Fringe, which matched last week's 12.1 mil. Scrubs surged 13 percent, averaging 5.08 mil across back-to-back episodes. ("What is Elmo, a seal?")

10 pm
Without a Trace topped the hour with 12.8 million viewers, up 400K. An SVU repeat (7.1 mil) bested ABC's What Would You Do? thingamabob (6.3 mil).

Wednesday Ratings: Lost, Lie to Me, Life on Mars and More

8 pm/ET
American Idol — which had better provide daycare in Hollywood! — led the pack with nearly 27 million total viewers, a week-to-week gain of 1.57 mil. Katie Couric's prime-time news foray drew 6.45 mil. Knight Rider revved up 22 percent to deliver 6.13 mil, its biggest audience since Oct. 22.

9 pm
Bolstered by its Idol lead-in, the nonetheless entertaining Lie to Me led with 12.11 million viewers, down a mil from its premiere. Lost was No. 1 in demos and drew 11.07 million, dipping just 300K from its season opener.

10 pm
Trailing a CSI: NY repeat, Law & Order delivered 8.89 million viewers, up 500K. Life on Mars returned to an audience of 6.5 mil, down 18 percent from its ages-ago last fresh episode.

Thursday Ratings: CSI Bounces Back, and a Super 'Natural

8 pm/ET
A special Thursday blast of American Idol was special indeed, topping the night with 24.27 million total viewers. Coming in fourth — and besting an Ugly Betty repeat — was Smallville, which at 4.18 mil was up 10 percent week-to-week.

9 pm
With Grey's Anatomy on bed rest, CSI bounced back from last week's grim Grissom-less debut to deliver 20.08 million viewers (up 15 percent). Hell's Kitchen placed second with 11.08 mil. Supernatural's "After School Special" got excellent grades, scoring the series' second-best audience of the season — 3.58 mil (up 18 percent).

10 pm
Eleventh Hour won the hour with 12.7 million viewers, up 400K. Handicapped by the Grey's repeat/weak lead-in, Private Practice (7.67 mil) plunged 20 percent.

Friday Ratings: Friday Night Lights Holds Steady

8 pm/ET
Behind a Ghost Whisperer repeat, Howie Do It stayed in second, but dipped another five percent (to 5.24 million total viewers). Wife Swap claimed third with 5.05 mil. Opposite decreased competition, both Everybody Hates Chris and The Game enjoyed gains of about 300K, each hitting 1.9 mil.

9 pm
A Flashpoint repeat was the night's most watched program, with 8.44 million viewers. Trailing the first hour of 20/20, Friday Night Lights put up numbers on par with its second episode — about four mil. Now airing Fridays, the CW's 13: Fear Is Real scared up just over a mil.

10 pm
A not-new Numbers topped the hour with 7.44 mil, besting 20/20's second hour and Dateline.