Spotted Ratings, Friday 9/28/12

WHAT MATTERS:

•  It's been a hellish premiere week for pretty much everybody, so why would a lineup that was already collapsing late last season buck the trend? CSI: NY and Blue Bloods both returned down 25%+ year-to-year and only barely above the low points of their late-season meltdowns, but the worst news came sandwiched between the two with newbie Made In Jersey. Looks like we've found a spot for CBS to put their mid-season replacements.

• Grimm had a pretty strong return to Friday, basically hitting its August Monday level, topping the night and seemingly helping boost Dateline.

• ABC managed to tie CBS for the nightly lead at probably a fraction of the cost, sandwiching their unscripted shows with an encore of Last Resort that actually tied for second at 9:00. That's the same number that Pan Am and Revenge got in their Friday pilot encores last year.

• The final season of Fringe debuted in predictably soft fashion, not even holding all of its The X Factor repeat lead-in.

FULL TABLE:

Info			Show				Timeslot		True2
	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Shark Tank	6.05	1.5	-6%	n/a	3/3	n/a	-6%	+43%	1.73
Last Resort (R)	3.92	1.1					-29%	+5%	1.27
20/20	4.11	1.3	-7%	-27%	4/4	+30%	-7%	+24%	1.49
CSI: NY	9.11	1.3	n/a	n/a	1/1	-28%	+18%	-10%	1.73
Made in Jersey	7.82	1.1	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	+10%	-39%	1.30
Blue Bloods	11.22	1.5	n/a	n/a	1/1	-25%	+114%	-25%	1.71
Grimm (R)	2.82	0.7					+17%	-18%	1.04
Grimm	5.32	1.6	+7%	-22%	3/5	n/a	+191%	-9%	1.95
Dateline Fri	4.81	1.3	+30%	+167%	1/3	-35%	+37%	-42%	1.42
The X Factor (R)	3.35	1.2					+50%	-25%	1.62
Fringe	3.12	1.1	n/a	n/a	1/1	-27%	+38%	-24%	1.31
America's Next Top Model	1.19	0.5	+0%	n/a	3/6	-29%	-9%	-17%	0.65
Nikita Prev (SR)	0.61	0.2					+0%	-75%	0.22

KEY (click to expand)

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.
Last - A18-49 percent difference from previous episode.
LeLa - A18-49 percent difference between the show's lead-in and its lead-in for the previous episode.
Rank - The A18-49 rating's rank among the show's episodes that have aired so far this season.
y2y - The show's A18-49 rating compared to its rating a year ago.
TLa - The show's A18-49 rating compared to the network's rating in the timeslot one week ago.
Ty2y - The show's A18-49 rating compared to the network's rating in the timeslot one year ago.
True2 - The second edition of True Strength, a metric that adjusts the A18-49 rating for overall viewing levels, competition and lead-in. PRELIMINARY CALCULATION. For finals, see SpotVault.

(R) - Repeat.

Much more detail on these numbers at the New Daily Spotted Ratings page.

More Spotted Ratings in the Index.