Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 7/5/11

WHAT MATTERS:

• With season one of The Voice in the books, that left NBC's other Tuesday tentpole America's Got Talent free to take over the night. And take over it did. The two-hour Vegas episode of Got Talent (4.5) hit the second-highest mark in the history of the series, only falling shy of the series premiere back on 6/21/06. Its lead-in was another original ep of Got Talent (3.4), the last of the audition episodes. It was up a tick from last week's 8:00 audition ep.

• Fox moved its second night of MasterChef (2.1) to 9:00 (having already moved the Monday edition there earlier), and it got a three-tenths week-to-week boost.

• ABC's 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show (1.9) continues to hold up surprisingly well, maintaining the rating of its first two weeks despite a repeat Wipeout lead-in (1.6). Combat Hospital (1.1) was even at last week's weak levels.

Above based on preliminary adults 18-49 ratings unless otherwise noted.