The Colts weren’t the only winners from Super Bowl

CBS continued to reap the benefits of its Super Bowl telecast last week, with a rare Monday victory and strong viewership for “Criminal Minds” helping to make it the week’s most-watched network in prime time, according to figures released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research.

CBS averaged 13.98 million viewers for its prime-time programming from Feb. 5 through Sunday, which also included the most-watched Grammy telecast since 2004.

Thanks to the usual 1-2 finish by the “American Idol” episodes, Fox was second with 11.85 million viewers, followed by ABC with 10.13 million, NBC with 8.82 million and the CW with 3.4 million.

What CBS dubbed as “Super Monday” and heavily promoted on its broadcast of Super Bowl XLI gave it a rare Monday victory Feb. 5, averaging a season-high 14.92 million viewers.

A football-themed episode of “How I Met Your Mother” drew a season-high 10.61 million viewers, while a football-themed episode of “The Class” followed with 9.54 million -- the most since the 10.48 million for its premiere Sept. 18.

“Two and a Half Men” followed with a season-high 17.68 million viewers. The premiere of the comedy “Rules of Engagement” then drew 14.83 million viewers, the most by a CBS program in the Monday 9:30-10 p.m. time slot this season and the most during the week by any first-season program. Both programs won their time slots, in a highly competitive time period that also includes NBC’s “Heroes” and Fox’s “24.”

Wednesday’s conclusion of the two-part “Criminal Minds,” which began after CBS’ Super Bowl telecast, drew 16.27 million viewers, 25% more than its last original episode in the time period.

CBS’ coverage of Sunday’s Grammy Awards ceremony from Staples Center drew 20.06 million viewers, 18% more than the record-low 17.01 million last year’s averaged and the most for a Grammy show since the 2004 telecast drew 26.29 million.

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Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (Feb. 5-11) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates there are 283.5 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions.

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*--* 1 American Idol (Tue.) FOX 33.36 2 American Idol (Wed.) FOX 27.91 3 Grey’s Anatomy (Thu.) ABC 25.20 4 House FOX 24.88 5 CSI CBS 22.52

6 “Grammy Awards” CBS 20.06 7 CSI: Miami CBS 18.43 8 Desperate Housewives ABC 18.10 9 Two and a Half Men CBS 17.68 10 Deal or No Deal (Mon.) NBC 17.41

11 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (8 p.m.) ABC 16.93 12 Survivor: Fiji CBS 16.44 13 Criminal Minds (9 p.m.) CBS 16.27 14 NCIS CBS 16.16 15 CSI: NY CBS 14.97

16 Rules of Engagement CBS 14.83 17 Heroes NBC 14.61 18 Shark CBS 14.53 19 Lost ABC 14.49 20 Ugly Betty ABC 14.27

21 60 Minutes CBS 14.12 22 24 FOX 13.60 23 Law & Order: SVU (Tue.) NBC 13.45 24 Bones FOX 12.56 25 The Unit (9 p.m.) CBS 12.41

26 ER NBC 11.53 27 Numb3rs CBS 11.23 28 Ghost Whisperer CBS 11.16 29 Brothers & Sisters ABC 11.02 30 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (7 p.m.) ABC 10.95

31 How I Met Your Mother CBS 10.61 32 The Unit (10 p.m.) CBS 10.54 33 Men in Trees ABC 10.46 Close to Home CBS 10.46 35 Prison Break FOX 10.12

36 Boston Legal ABC 9.91 37 Criminal Minds (8 p.m.) CBS 9.80 38 Law & Order NBC 9.63 39 Supernanny ABC 9.57 40 The Class CBS 9.54

41 My Name Is Earl NBC 9.53 42 1 vs. 100 NBC 9.52 43 Deal or No Deal (Wed.) NBC 9.38 44 Las Vegas NBC 9.15 45 The Office NBC 8.84

“Lost: Survivor Guide” ABC 8.84 47 20/20 (10 p.m.) ABC 8.83 48 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Tue.) NBC 8.81 49 “Budweiser Shoot-Out” FOX 8.44 50 Wife Swap ABC 8.40

51 The Simpsons (8 p.m.) FOX 8.18 52 Medium NBC 8.15 53 Crossing Jordan NBC 8.06 54 Family Guy FOX 7.97 55 “Primetime: The Outsiders” ABC 7.38

Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Sat.) NBC 7.38 57 48 Hours Mystery CBS 7.12 58 George Lopez ABC 7.03 59 Studio 60 on Sunset Strip NBC 7.00 60 King of the Hill (8:30 p.m.) FOX 6.99

61 “AFC/NFC Pro Bowl” CBS 6.98 62 Dateline: NBC (Sat.) NBC 6.86 63 20/20 (9 p.m.) ABC 6.74 64 Law & Order: SVU (Sat.) NBC 6.72 65 American Dad FOX 6.60

66 Grey’s Anatomy (Fri.) ABC 6.59 67 Grease: You’re the One That I Want NBC 6.48 68 Friday Night Lights NBC 6.41 Apprentice 6 NBC 6.41 70 Scrubs NBC 6.25

71 La Fea Mas Bella (Mon.) UNI 6.18 72 La Fea Mas Bella (Tue.) UNI 6.15 73 “Estados Unidos Mexico” UNI 6.13 74 “Bringing Down the House” ABC 6.12 75 La Fea Mas Bella (Wed.) UNI 6.02

76 “In Style: Celebrity Weddings” ABC 5.99 77 La Fea Mas Bella (Thu.) UNI 5.98 78 Crimetime Saturday CBS 5.83 79 Dateline: NBC (Tue.) NBC 5.77 80 America’s Funniest Home Videos (Tue.) ABC 5.47

81 The Simpsons (7:30 p.m.) FOX 5.41 La Fea Mas Bella (Fri.) UNI 5.41 83 “Charlie Brown Valentine” ABC 5.24 84 The Knights of Prosperity ABC 5.20 85 30 Rock NBC 5.17

86 ‘Til Death FOX 5.03 87 Friday Night Smackdown CW 4.83 88 “Eterno Rivales: EEUU y Mexico” UNI 4.79 89 Trading Spouses FOX 4.76 90 Smallville CW 4.74

91 Gilmore Girls CW 4.70 92 “Winnie the Pooh, A Valentine” ABC 4.65 93 Mundo de Fieras (Tue.) UNI 4.40 94 War at Home FOX 4.39 95 Mundo de Fieras (Thu.) UNI 4.36

96 Nanny 911 FOX 4.22 97 Beauty and the Geek (Wed.) CW 4.21 98 Duelo de Pasiones (Wed.) UNI 4.04 99 Mundo de Fieras (Mon.) UNI 4.03 100 King of the Hill (7 p.m.) FOX 4.00

101 Mundo de Fieras (Fri.) UNI 3.83 102 Duelo de Pasiones (Thu.) UNI 3.69 103 The O.C. FOX 3.58 104 Bailando Boda Suenos UNI 3.53 105 Duelo de Pasiones (Mon.) UNI 3.32

106 Cristina UNI 3.30 107 Duelo de Pasiones (Tue.) UNI 3.25 108 Reba (7:30 p.m.) CW 3.24 109 Aqui y Ahora UNI 3.18 110 Everybody Hates Chris CW 3.16

111 Duelo de Pasiones (Fri.) UNI 3.06 112 7th Heaven CW 2.90 113 Supernatural CW 2.84 114 All of Us CW 2.74 Sabado Gigante UNI 2.74

116 One Tree Hill CW 2.73 Casos Vida UNI 2.73 118 Girlfriends CW 2.71 119 Ver Para Creer UNI 2.64 120 The Game CW 2.63

121 Reba (7 p.m.) CW 2.56 122 Veronica Mars CW 2.40 123 Hora Pico UNI 2.32 124 Casos Familia UNI 1.65 125 Beauty and the Geek (Sun.) CW 1.43

126 Viuda de Blanco (Mon.) TEL 1.19 Marina (Wed.) TEL 1.19 128 Marina (Mon.) TEL 1.18 129 Amor Mio (Mon.) TEL 1.13 130 Marina (Thu.) TEL 1.12

131 Viuda de Blanco (Tue.) TEL 1.09 132 Viuda de Blanco (Wed.) TEL 1.04 133 Viuda de Blanco (Thu.) TEL 1.03 134 Decisiones (Wed.) TEL 1.01 135 Decisiones (Tue.) TEL 0.99

136 Decisiones (Mon.) TEL 0.97 Viuda de Blanco (Fri.) TEL 0.97 138 Marina (Fri.) TEL 0.92 139 Marina (Tue.) TEL 0.91 140 Amor Mio (Wed.) TEL 0.89

141 Decisiones (Thu.) TEL 0.88 142 Cine Millonario TEL 0.86 Decisiones (Fri.) TEL 0.86 144 Amor Mio (Thu.) TEL 0.83 145 Amor Mio (Tue.) TEL 0.78

146 Amor Mio (Fri.) TEL 0.74 147 Cine Millonario TEL 0.71 148 Cinemundo del Sabado TEL 0.55 149 Vas o No Vas TEL 0.43 150 Seguro y Urgente TEL 0.29

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*--* Network averages Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Network Last week Season to date CBS 13.98 13.15

FOX 11.85 9.30

ABC 10.13 10.00

NBC 8.82 9.72

UNI 4.16 3.55

CW 3.40 3.26

TEL 0.88 0.84

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