The Monday August 18 episode of the summer's #3 ranked series, "For Love Or Money 2," scored its best Nielsen ratings to date.
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According to preliminary �fast affiliate-based� in-home viewing figures from Nielsen Media Research, �For Love or Money 2� scored a 4.5 rating, 12 share among adults 18-49 and attracted 9.7 million viewers overall. The previous highest �For Love 2� rating came a week earlier, when the hot relationship show grabbed a 4.4. In these provisional results, �For Love 2� defeated ABC�s NFL pre-season football, CBS� rebroadcasts of �Everybody Loves Raymond� and �King of Queens� and Fox�s �Paradise Hotel.� For the summer-to-date, the only series rated higher than �For Love 2� in 18-49 are �For Love or Money 1� and CBS� �CSI.�
From 10-11 PM ET, �Meet My Folks� and the closing minutes of �For Love 2� averaged a 4.1/11 among adults 18-49 and 8.5 million viewers overall, which currently puts NBC solidly #1 for the hour ahead of ABC�s football and CBS� �CSI: Miami� rebroadcast. It�s the fifth week in a row NBC reality has out-rated CBS� �CSI: Miami� encores in 18-49.
At 8 PM ET, �Fear Factor� (4.0/13 in 18-49, 9.5 million viewers overall) won the time period with its second-highest rating of the summer to date. From its first half-hour to its second, �Fear� grew by a powerful 25 percent in 18-49 rating.
