Castle clearly benefited from the return of Dancing with the Stars on ABC. Not such good luck over on CBS. How I Met Your Mother and Mike & Molly hit lows for the season. On NBC, the struggling line-up either hit or matched their season low ratings.

8pm
Dancing with the Stars
– 22.657 million viewers
– 14.2/22 HH
– 5.3/15 A18-49 (new)

House
– 9.492 million viewers
– 5.6/9 HH
– 3.4/10 A18-49 (-2.9%)

How I Met Your Mother
– 8.028 million viewers
– 4.9/8 HH
– 3.0/9 A18-49 (-11.8%)

Chuck
– 4.230 million viewers
– 2.5/4 HH
– 1.5/4 A18-49 (-6.3%)

90210 (r)
– 0.686 million viewers
– 0.5/1 HH
– 0.3/1 A18-49
– 0.3/1 A18-34
– 0.3/1 W18-34

8:30pm
Mad Love
– 6.525 million viewers
– 4.1/6 HH
– 2.4/7 A18-49 (+14.3%)

9pm
Two and a Half Men (r)
– 9.236 million viewers
– 6.0/9 HH
– 2.7/7 A18-49

The Chicago Code
– 6.164 million viewers
– 3.7/6 HH
– 1.8/5 A18-49 (-5.3%)

The Event
– 4.106 million viewers
– 2.6/4 HH
– 1.2/3 A18-49 (0%)

Gossip Girl (r)
– 0.527 million viewers
– 0.4/1 HH
– 0.2/0 A18-49
– 0.2/0 A18-34
– 0.2/1 W18-34

9:30pm
Mike & Molly
– 9.702 million viewers
– 6.0/9 HH
– 3.0/8 A18-49 (-11.8%)

10pm
Castle
– 12.032 million viewers
– 7.7/13 HH
– 3.1/9 A18-49 (+10.7%)

Hawaii Five-0
– 10.013 million viewers
– 6.2/11 HH
– 2.9/8 A18-49 (+3.6%)

Harry’s Law
– 8.427 million viewers
– 5.5/9 HH
– 1.6/5 A18-49 (-11.1%)

Raw ratings data copyright Nielsen, courtesy Travis Yanan.