Monday night is traditionally a mighty tough programming challenge for the broadcast networks each season, as they face heavy competition from ESPN's Monday Night Football, which averages more than 13 million viewers per week.Given all the pressure, it's no surprise that there's been a real jockeying for position among the Big Four broadcasters. NBC, which pulled a worst-to-first turnaround on Mondays over the last couple of years, has a different challenger in its rearview: Fox, which has passed CBS in the important 18-49 demo race. CBS' once-bulletproof lineup is now surprisingly vulnerable, and ABC remains fourth.Fox's Monday success this fall can be tied to the boost it's getting from rookie drama Sleepy Hollow, which is performing much better than last year's flat-lined The Mob Doctor. Mob Doctor averaged just above a 1.0 in the 18-49 demo and roughly 4 million total viewers last fall, compared to Sleepy Hollow's 2.9 rating with a little more than 8 million total viewers.
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