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After landing half of this fall's NFL Thursday Night Football package, CBS wisely decided against leaving broadcast's top-rated series, The Big Bang Theory, on the sidelines until regular Thursday night programming resumed Oct. 30. Instead, it deployed Big Bang to Mondays where it propped up a lineup that has been in flux since How I Met Your Mother signed off last spring.

For the first five weeks of the TV season, Big Bang dominated its faceoff against two of the other highest-rated shows on TV, NBC's The Voice and ABC's Dancing With the Stars.

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