THE BIG BANG THEORY Takes Week 9 with Live +7 Lift

THE BIG BANG THEORY was the top live + 7-day lift gainer during Week 9, adding +5.30 million viewers while four CBS dramas added more than four million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings for the week ending Nov. 23.

THE BIG BANG THEORY increased to 19.91m with the addition of +5.30m from its live plus same day average of 14.61m (+36%). Among adults 18-49, THE BIG BANG THEORY ranked second for the week, adding +2.2 rating points (6.3 from 4.1, +54%).

Four CBS dramas posted viewer lifts of more than four million viewers including SCORPION (+4.22m, +41%), ELEMENTARY (+4.18m, +64%), NCIS: LOS ANGELES (+4.14m, +47%) and CRIMINAL MINDS (+4.04m, +38%).

Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists - geniuses in the laboratory, but socially challenged everywhere else. Enter beautiful, street-smart neighbor, Penny, who aims to teach them a thing or two about life. Despite their on-again, off-again relationship in the past, Leonard and Penny have finally gotten engaged. Even Sheldon has found a female companion, entering into a "Relationship Agreement" with neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler. In their free time, Leonard and Sheldon enjoy fantasy role-playing games with their ever-expanding universe of friends, including fellow scientists Koothrappali, Wolowitz and Wolowitz's adorable microbiologist wife, Bernadette.