As the second season of "Heroes" winds down a shortened run, it seems that viewers are slowly making their way back.

NBC's only real bright light shined a little brighter Monday earning a 6.7 rating/10 share according to Fast National ratings from Nielsen Media Research. That is up slightly over the 6.6 earned the previous week, and was enough to take third place behind comedies on CBS and "Samantha Who?" on ABC, but was able to win the hour in the key demographic of adults 18 to 49.

"Chuck," the lead-in to "Heroes," is doing better as well, according to Zap2it. That show pulled in a 4.9/7, enough to tie for second in households with "How I Met Your Mother" and "Big Bang Theory," all of which followed well behind "Dancing With the Stars, which had more than three times the audience with a 16.0/23. All those shows beat reruns on Fox and whatever The CW decided to show.

"Journeyman" did nothing to try and save itself, coming in at a 3.8/6, a 40 percent audience drop from its lead-in. It finished well behind "CSI: Miami" on CBS and "October Road" on ABC, although it did slip ahead of the ABC series in total number of viewers.

For the night, NBC finished third with a 5.2/8, but finished just behind CBS and ABC in the key 18-to-49 age demographic.

Fast Nationals usually provide a snapshot of what Americans are watching by pulling numbers from the top urban markets that includes both live viewing and same-day timeshifted viewing. A rating point generally represents more than 1.1 million households while the share indicates the percentage of televisions turned on that was tuned to the specific program. These numbers typically shift when final ratings are issued.

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