Fox's 'Terra Nova' OK in bow

Within the second outing, new CBS sitcom "2 Broke Women" enhanced round the timeslot this past year having a large 44% on Monday evening. Fox's pricey, vfx-laden "Terra Nova" opened up to average amounts on Monday evening despite heavy promo as well as the Spielberg pedigree. It had dinosaurs and Steven Spielberg's title attached, but pricey Fox drama "Terra Nova" settled for average amounts within the bow Monday. Star in the evening was CBS' "two and a half Males," which assigned 20 million audiences in Ashton Kutcher's second week and made an appearance to lift the net's entire comedy block.Opposite a sizable "Monday Evening Football" game on ESPN and potent CBS comedy amounts, "Terra Nova" averaged a 3.1 rating/8 participate grownups 18-49 and 9.22 million audiences from 8 to 10 p.m. -- holding steady inside a 3.one out of each half-hour, according to Nielsen. While nothing special, the "Terra Nova" opener was in line with last week's top drama premieres inside the demo (ABC's "Revenge" and "Pan Am" and CBS' "Person of great interestInch). This past year in Week 2, "House" did a 3.8 and rookie dud "Lone Star" handled only one., so Fox's 3.1 average for your evening reps a 24% improvement year-to-year. "House" returns inside a couple of days within the new regular 9 p.m. timeslot.CBS won the evening in demos among the tv producers, with "Generate An Earnings Met Your Mother" (4.5/12, 10.50m) supporting well in the premiere and "2 Broke Women" searching good within the regular 8:30 p.m. debut (4.6/12, 11.75m), up a sizable 44% over last year's "Rules of Engagement" inside the timeslot.Next, "two and a half Males" centered at 9 (7.4/17 in 18-49, 20.53m) -- lower about 30% week to week but nevertheless 54% a lot better than the second week of "Males" last season for CBS (4.8). And following "Mike and Molly" (4.8/11, 13.86m), which returned with series levels, "Hawaii Five-" introduced the drama demo fight at 10 p.m. (3.2/8, 11.26m).ABC's "DwtsInch (3.3/8 in 18-49, 16.23m) dropped about 15% in the below-componen premiere of the other day and was lower a sizable 30% within the same evening this past year, nevertheless it used to be big enough among older audiences to lift the Alphabet to victory for your evening in general audiences. Closing things out, 10 p.m. drama "Castle" (2.8/7, 11.67m) still handled to fit its delivery of this past year, placing second to "Hawaii Five-" in demos while edging the CBS drama in general audiences.NBC's "The Playboy Club" (1.3/3, 3.97m) dropped a few more ticks in the soft bow, as well as the net's "The Sing-Off" also dipped (1.7/4, 4.45m), wonderful three several hours below last year's Week 2 average.CW's new drama "Hart of Dixie" averaged b .8/2 in 18-49 and 1.88 million audiences overall, building on its "Gossip Girl" lead-in (.7/2, 1.37m) in many broad groups -- even though it shipped in grownups 18-34 (.8 versus. single.1 for "Gossip").Making existence a hardship on the television stations was ESPN's "Monday Evening Football," which featured the Dallas Cowboys and for that reason was above average (7.2/17, 17.10m). Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com