'Heroes' makes slow progress with 5.7m

Heroes continued to improve last night, according to early viewing figures.

The 8pm screening of 'Tabula Rasa' pulled in 5.67m. Last week, the show logged 5.6m during the hour.

Elsewhere at 8pm, How I Met Your Mother and Accidentally On Purpose put in 8.76m and 8.62m for CBS and The CW's One Tree Hill put in 2.29m.

A special two-hour Dancing With The Stars averaged 17.04m for ABC from 8pm.

CBS won the 9pm hour, pulling in 13.83m and 13.12m for Two And A Half Men and The Big Bang Theory. NBC's Trauma managed 5.52m and Gossip Girl took 1.93m for The CW.

Later, at 10pm, CSI: Miami attracted 12.65m to CBS, ABC's Castle grabbed 9.88m, and 4.74m watched The Jay Leno Show on NBC.

Fox's figures for the evening were slightly skewed due to the ALCS overrun. House, which aired in the later slot of 9pm, averaged 10.17m, then 7.45m watched Lie To Me at 10pm.