| Timeslot | Lo | Avg | Hi | y2y | A18-49+ | Label | Results |
| Thursday 8:00 | 4.1 | 4.97 | 5.6 | +24% | 210 | megahit | detail |
Rating the Ratings: If ever a season deserved an "A" grade since I started doing this, it'd be this year of The Big Bang Theory. After taking a big dip in its first season on Thursday, Big Bang found its way almost all the way back up to the ratings of its peak season after Two and a Half Men. It was a year in which so many shows had an amazing fall and collapsed throughout the season, but Big Bang was actually at its relative weakest in the early fall. Starting at the beginning of November sweeps, Big Bang was up at least 20% year-to-year virtually every week, and sometimes much more than that. Not only did it become the first scripted show to regularly beat American Idol head-to-head, but it was virtually unfazed when Idol arrived in the slot. In the spring, it pulled noticeably ahead of fellow comedy megahits Two and a Half Men and Modern Family. Though its average finished a little behind the Wednesday Idol and Modern Family, the late-season trend probably makes it the odds-on favorite for #1 entertainment program in 2012-13. Grade: A.
Here's the now updated War of 18-49 post for The Big Bang Theory.
