Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 11/22/11

WHAT MATTERS:

• It'll probably be one of the last "full-strength" days of 2011, and it was quite a competitive one. Fox brought The X Factor back over to Tuesday, and while it was the second-weakest airing yet for the show (and weakest non-Thursday), it did overall make Fox a bit stronger than usual. But X's typical growth in the 9/8c hour was stalled by the two-hour finale of Dancing with the Stars. Said finale was down more than 20% from last year, but that's pretty much been the norm all season.

• With Fox and DWTS stronger than usual, it was ugly elsewhere. CBS took a weirdly large hit, with NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles both at least three tenths weaker than any previous airing this season. NBC's Biggest Loser was also below average against the reality glut. And with ABC much stronger than usual at 10:00, Unforgettable also hit a low and Parenthood hit a new season low. 90210 hit an outright series low.

FULL TABLE:

	Viewers	A18-49	Share	Skew	Last	Lead	LeLa	Avg	Rank	TRUE
Last Man Standing	9.29	2.7	8	37%	+4%	n/a	n/a	-10%	4/7	2.97
Man Up!	6.66	1.9	5	37%	+12%	-30%	+4%	-1%	3/6	1.77
Dancing with the Stars Tue	19.56	4.1	11	27%	+52%	+116%	+12%	+45%	1/10	4.50
NCIS	18.50	3.5	10	24%	-13%	n/a	n/a	-14%	10/10	3.88
NCIS: Los Angeles	14.10	3.0	8	27%	-12%	-14%	-13%	-13%	10/10	3.09
Unforgettable	10.42	2.2	6	27%	-8%	-27%	-12%	-11%	10/10	2.17
The Biggest Loser	5.58	2.0	5	46%	-5%	n/a	n/a	-7%	7/10	2.11
Parenthood	4.57	1.9	5	53%	-5%	-5%	-5%	-9%	10/10	1.99
The X Factor Wed	9.43	3.2	9	43%	-18%	n/a	n/a	-20%	10/10	3.51
90210	1.26	0.6	2	61%	-14%	n/a	n/a	-22%	10/10	0.60
Hart of Dixie (R)	0.96	0.4	1	53%	n/a	-33%	n/a	n/a	1/1	0.39

KEY (with much more detail at the New Daily Spotted Ratings page):

Viewers - The total number of viewers (age 2+, in millions) that watched the program.
A18-49 - Adults 18-49 rating. Percentage of US TV-owning adults 18-49 watching the program.
Share - Adults 18-49 share. Percentage of US TV-watching adults 18-49 watching the program.
Skew - Percentage of the total audience that falls in the 18-49 demo.
Last - A18-49 percent difference from previous episode.
Lead - A18-49 percent difference from lead-in program.
LeLa - A18-49 percent difference between the show's lead-in and its lead-in for the previous episode.
Avg - A18-49 percent difference from the show's average demo for previous original episodes this season.
Rank - The A18-49 rating's rank among the show's episodes that have aired so far this season.
TRUE - True Strength, a metric developed last summer that adjusts the A18-49 rating for overall viewing levels, competition and lead-in. (Note: these are PRELIMINARY TRUE calculations. Finals come next week.)

(R) - Repeat.

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