It has been reported that the premiere of The Biggest Loser Season 8 drew in the highest ratings for Tuesday night’s television, almost beating Jay Leno in the process.
As reported from OrlandoSentinel, Jay Leno managed to pull in 18.4 million viewers for the premiere of his talk show on Monday night. However ratings were down the next night, managing 10.7 million with The Biggest Loser close behind with 9.9 million viewers.

The results meant that NBC had the most viewers last night with an average of 10.2 million. CBS was in second place with 9.3 million, followed by ABC with just 4.7 million viewers.
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