Fox's Monday cooks up victory

Fox has tallied up its best summer time Monday rankings in a number of years with cooking contests ''Hell's Kitchen'' and ''MasterChef,'' which lifted the internet to victory in key demos in addition to total audiences. Based on preliminary national estimations from Nielsen, ''Hell's Kitchen'' began Monday a champion for Fox (2.8/8 in 18-49, 6.8 million audiences overall) , on componen with a week ago and again the night's top show among teenagers. It had been then the Monday finale of ''MasterChef'' (2.4/6 in 18-49, 6. million audiences overall), that was up a tick from a week ago to complement its best delivery about the evening this summer time. For that evening, Fox brought the broadcast pack in 18-49, 25-54 and total audiences. It had been its best showing having a regular Monday selection in summer time since 2008 in grown ups 18-49 and also, since 2007 as a whole audiences. At ABC, both-hour episode of ''Bachelor Pad'' (2.1/6 in 18-49, 6.3 million audiences overall) was lower 9% from last week's three-hour premiere but up versus. the 2nd installment of last summer time. It had been then the return of ''Castle'' to the timeframe, having a repeat tugging a .9/3 in 18-49 and three.9 million audiences overall. CBS hung inside with repeats of ''How I Met Your Mother'' (1.4/4 in 18-49, 4.a million audiences overall at 8 p.m. and 1.6/5 in 18-49, 4.six million audiences overall for any second episode at 8:30), ''Two . 5 Men'' (1.5/4 in 18-49, 5.7 million audiences overall), ''Mike and Molly'' (1.4/4 in 18-49, 5.4 million audiences overall) and ''Hawaii Five-0'' (1.2/3 in 18-49, 5.a million audiences overall). These amounts could come lower a little within the excellent because the preliminaries incorporate a football preemption in Houston for that ''Monday Evening Football'' game between your Texans and New You are able to Jets. And NBC were built with a weak showing using its two-hour encore of ''America's Got Talent'' (1./3 in 18-49, 4.4 million audiences overall) then a repeat of ''Harry's Law'' (.8/2 in 18-49, 3.3 million audiences overall). Preliminary 18-49 earnings for that evening: Fox, 2.6/7 ABC, 1.7/5 CBS, 1.4/4 Univision, 1.3/4 NBC, .9/3 CW, .2/1. As a whole audiences: Fox, 6.4 million ABC, 5.5 million CBS, 5. million NBC, 4. million Univision, 3.3 million CW, .5 million. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com