little better news coming for NBC in its Monday night lineup as both "Heroes" and its lead-in "Chuck" built on audiences from the previous week to become a little more competitive to begin the week.
"Heroes" earned a 6.8 rating/10 share according to Fast National ratings from Nielsen Media Research, doing better than the 6.4/9 it earned last week, and helping it to beat the baseball playoffs on Fox.

"Heroes" had a considerable amount of competition, especially from ABC, which had its last half-hour of "Dancing With the Stars" as well as the series premiere of "Samantha Who?" -- one of the best series premieres so far this season -- that