US TV
'24' hits series low of 8.5 million
Published Tuesday, Feb 16 2010, 17:21 GMT | By Dan French

Fox
The 9pm instalment, which aired against NBC's Winter Olympics coverage, pulled in a lowly 8.5 million. A House rerun, which served as a lead-in to the real-time drama, managed 6.8m.
CBS's repeats performed as follows: How I Met Your Mother and Accidentally On Purpose had 5.9m and 5.6m during the 8pm hour, then 10.6m watched Two And A Half Men at 9pm. The Big Bang Theory followed at 9.30pm, drawing 10.1m, then the 10pm CSI: Miami drew 8.4m.
The Bachelor: On The Wings Of Love attracted 11.8m to ABC between 8pm and 10pm, then a Castle rerun took 5.7m.
One Tree Hill and Life Unexpected interested 1.9m and 1.8m for The CW at 8pm and 9pm respectively.
NBC's live Olympics coverage averaged 25.5m across primetime.
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