Last night on network TV, House finally relented and agreed to hire a female doctor to the team, Barney got an important clue in his quest to find his father, Jeff and Audrey got Jeff’s lesbian friend to be their surrogate mother and people continued to show that they are capable of dancing alongside stars! Oh, and on NBC, George W. Bush went blah blah blah to Matt Lauer about his presidency and whatnot. Judging by last night’s ratings, many more people cared about dancing and House.

The overnight numbers are in, and last night’s Vikings-Saints game is expected to be the most watched television program of any kind, excluding Super Bowls, since the series finale of Seinfeld.

ratings

Cable news ratings, October 5, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Bill O’Reilly had the top cable news program in total viewers and the A25-54 demographic. As has been the growing trend, his colleague Glenn Beck was #2 in both categories.