'Kitchen' cooks up Fox victory

A complete-night's serving of ''Hell's Kitchen'' lifted Fox to victory one of the tv stations Monday, a evening which ESPN was likely to compete using its ''Monday Evening Football'' preseason contest. Based on preliminary national estimations from Nielsen, ''Hell's Kitchen'' averaged a couple.6 rating/7 be part of grown ups 18-49 and 6.a million audiences overall from eight to ten p.m., lower a little from last week's hourlong episode. Still, it had been the very best-ranked broadcast program about the evening, as Fox brought its rivals in 18-49 all half-hrs. ABC went second as ''Bachelor Pad'' (2.1/6 in 18-49, 6.six million audiences overall) and ''Castle'' (1./3 in 18-49, 5.six million audiences overall) were consistent with a week ago, although their earnings might be modified downward within the excellent because of a preemption for Bears football about the Alphabet station in Chicago. NBC began gradually having a repeat of ''America's Got Talent'' (1./3 in 18-49, 4. million audiences overall) before obtaining steam using the season finale of ''American Ninja Warrior'' (1.7/4 in 18-49, 4. million audiences overall), which easily capped the demo lots of repeat dramas airing opposite it on ABC and CBS. ''Warrior,'' which airs on NBC's sister cable network G4, gave NBC its best showing within the Monday 9-11 p.m. block since This summer 4 if this broadcast its annual ''Macy's 4th of This summer Fireworks'' special. CBS hung inside of course with repeats of standard Monday programs ''How I Met Your Mother'' (1.1/4 in 18-49, 3.7 million audiences overall at 8 p.m. and 1.3/4 in 18-49, 3.9 million audiences overall at 8:30), ''Two . 5 Men'' (1.4/4 in 18-49, 5.3 million audiences overall), ''Mike and Molly'' (1.3/3 in 18-49, 5.3 million audiences overall) and ''Hawaii Five-0'' (1.2/3 in 18-49, 4.9 million audiences overall). Rankings will not be accessible until this mid-day for ESPN's ''Monday Evening Football'' game between your New You are able to Titans and Chicago Bears, that was likely to win the evening in male demos while challenging Fox for that primetime 18-49 lead. Preliminary 18-49 earnings for that evening: Fox, 2.6/7 ABC, 1.8/5 Univision, 1.5/4 NBC, 1.4/4 CBS, 1.3/3 CW, .2/1. As a whole audiences: Fox, 6.a million ABC, 5.9 million CBS, 4.7 million NBC, 4. million Univision, 3.six million CW, .5 million. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com