With the sports competition now over, closet romantics were free to get back to the wine and roses. Yesterday’s three-hour Bachelor event easily surpassed CBS in the viewers and the demos.

8pm

• Approximately 15 million watched Jake Pavelka pick Vienna Girardi on The Bachelor finale (5.3/13 in 18-49).
• How I Met Your Mother (3.9/11) returned to 10.5 million.
• The Rules of Engagement premiere rounded up 9.8 million (3.5/9).
• An original Chuck (2.4/6) and a repeat House* (2.1/6) both attracted 6.7 million viewers.
• Life Unexpected* (0.6/2) settled for 1.4 million.

9pm

• Two and a Half Men (16.8 million, 5.7/14 in 18-49) had the largest audience of the night.
• The Big Bang Theory (15.6 million, 5.9/14) had the best demos of the evening.
• 24 (8.6 million, 2.5/6) did about the same as last week.
• A two-hour Law & Order (2.0/5) averaged 7.8 million.
• A new Life Unexpected (1.8 million, 0.8/2) improved on its lead-in.

10pm

• The Bachelor: After the Final Rose special (5.4/14 in 18-49) had 14.3 million glued in.
• CSI: Miami (3.4/9) scored 12.1 million.

*denotes repeat

(You can review last Monday’s ratings here.)