‘Dancing With the Stars’ cleans up locally and nationally Monday ..

“Dancing With the Stars” was, by far, the favorite series of Central Florida viewers Monday night. The ABC dance contest averaged 299,300 viewers and it was way ahead of No. 2, CBS’ “Two and a Half Men,” with 170,500. The other top programs locally were ABC’s “Castle” with 169,100, CBS’ “How I Met Your Mother” with 131,800, CBS’ “Hawaii Five-O” with 127,700, Fox’s “House” with  125,100 and CBS’ “Mike & Molly” with 122,300.“Dancing” was also the most-watched program nationally, averaging 19.3 million viewers over two hours. “Dancing” boosted Disney-owned ABC to victories in total viewers and in the 18-to-49 age group.

ABC averaged 16.7 million viewers in prime time. Here’s how the other networks fared: CBS with 10.2 million, Fox with 7.6 million, NBC with 5.6 million and The CW with 1 million for reruns.  CBS was a close second to ABC in the 18-to-49 age group.At 8, “Dancing” was tops. Fox’s “House” was second with 9.5 million. Then came the CBS comedies “How I Met Your Mother” (8 million) and “Rules of Engagement” (7.9 million). “Chuck” on NBC was the choice of 5.3 million. At 9, “Dancing” still was in front. 

 

 Then came the CBS comedies “Two and a Half Men” (13.4 million) and “Mike & Molly” (11 million). “The Event” on NBC drew 6.4 million. Fox’s “Lie to Me” persuaded 5.7 million. At 10, ABC’s “Castle” entertained 11.6 million and surpassed CBS’ “Hawaii Five-O” with 10.6 million. NBC’s “Chase” was the choice of 5.2 million.

Bristol Palin Exhausted with DWTS & Parenting

Bristol Palin continues to dance on the hit television series, Dancing With the Stars - but the young woman and single  mother isn't pretending that everything is easy  for her to balance.

Bristol Palin went on the record recently and admitted that the mental drain of managing her role and responsibilities as a parent - combined with her work on DWTS - is exhausting: “Mentally it’s exhausting. Physically it’s exhausting. But I’m making it work."Bristol Sheeran Marie Palin (born October 18, 1990) is the second child and eldest daughter of the 11th Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd. After Bristol became a teenage single parent, she began to publicly advocate abstinence for unmarried teens, and is now a paid speaker.

 

BRISTOL Palin wants to see her father to take part on Dancing With the Stars! The 19-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin  who’s currently appearing on the hit US TV ballroom series says dad Todd Palin was originally asked to do DWTS, but declined because he’s “too busy.”“I’d be hilarious to see them dance,” she  said of either of her parents participating in the show.Sarah recently revealed she banned Todd from appearing on the show.

“They wanted Todd to be on the show,” she said.“I think that would have been cool to see, too. But here Bristol is doing something all new.”Bristol recently admitted she’s struggling to juggle her stint on the show with raising her baby son Tripp.“Mentally it’s exhausting. Physically it’s exhausting,” she told US TV show Extra.“Mentally it’s exhausting.  Physically it’s exhausting.“But I’m making it work.”