Last year, FOX's House claimed the title of most-watched TV program in the world, but this weekend a different TV drama reclaimed its status as the most popular show among international audiences.
CBS' long-running CSI: Crime Scene Investigation toppled House with more than 73.8 million viewers worldwide, according to the esteemed Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
This isn't the first time the ten-year-old forensics crime drama has been declared the world's most popular show by the fest - in fact, the CSI franchise has dominated almost every year of the International TV Audience Award's five-year history. CSI: Miami was the first show to be honored as the most-watched drama internationally in 2006, and its forerunner CSI: Crime Scene Investigation took the award in 2007 and 2008. But the original CSI was bested in 2009 by House, the same year it suffered a significant drop in ratings when the show's central character Gil Grissom (William Petersen) left in its ninth season.
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CBS' long-running CSI: Crime Scene Investigation toppled House with more than 73.8 million viewers worldwide, according to the esteemed Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
This isn't the first time the ten-year-old forensics crime drama has been declared the world's most popular show by the fest - in fact, the CSI franchise has dominated almost every year of the International TV Audience Award's five-year history. CSI: Miami was the first show to be honored as the most-watched drama internationally in 2006, and its forerunner CSI: Crime Scene Investigation took the award in 2007 and 2008. But the original CSI was bested in 2009 by House, the same year it suffered a significant drop in ratings when the show's central character Gil Grissom (William Petersen) left in its ninth season.
Story link: http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/csi-catches-the-most-international-tvwatching-eyeballs--1319
