HD Ratings: Minds Still Criminally Popular

Criminal Minds continues to be a star performer for TV One midway through its ninth season.

Monday’s episode averaged 5.1% – 11.3% of the major demographics to win the 8.30 hour among 25-54 year-olds and household shoppers with kids.

Its enduring popularity helped lead-out Castle (2.2% – 5.4%) to beat Grey’s Anatomy (3.5% – 6.2%) in the 25-54 demo and to trail it by only a point among HHS/k.

TV2’s new 7.30 comedy Ground Floor (7.7% – 11.0%) continues to rate relatively well off the back of Shortland Street (15.2% – 22.1%).

It and stablemate Cougar Town (9.0% – 11.7%) out-rated TV3’s The X Factor Australia (8.1% – 11.3%) in all the key demos except 18-39 and helped lead-out Wentworth (7.0% – 9.0%) to win the 8.30 hour in the younger demos.

But overall TV3’s re-run of All About Steve won the 18-39 race, with the second half easily pulling ahead of Grey’s Anatomy.

Monday’s peak-hour HD channel ratings and shares were:

• A18-49: TV One, 6.8 rating/22.4 share; TV2, 8.0 rating/26.6 share; TV3, 5.8 rating/19.4 share
• A18-39: TV One, 5.9 rating/20.3 share; TV2, 7.8 rating/26.8 share; TV3, 6.3 rating/21.8 share
• A25-54: TV One, 8.9 rating/26.3 share; TV2, 8.4 rating/24.8 share; TV3, 6.0 rating/17.8 share
• HHS/k: TV One, 10.1 rating/24.7 share; TV2, 11.2 rating/27.2 share; TV3, 7.4 rating/18.1 share.