WHAT MATTERS:
- Let's start with CBS.
- First of all, the returning comedies all disappointed. I'm not big on using the year-to-year comparisons since premiere Monday 2011 was so Ashton-inflated, but bottom line is I expected about a half point better out of How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls in its 9/8c debut and Mike and Molly. Only 2BG even got back to last season's finale numbers.
- From the disappointing to the disastrous. Hawaii Five-0 mystifyingly went a whooping 0.8 points below last season's finale numbers and 0.4 behind the previous series low. I guess there's a lot of crossover with Revolution or something, but this looks pretty ridiculously bad.
- And CBS' only new comedy of the fall was Partners, which was down nearly a third from HIMYM right out of the gate. If this was their best new comedy, it certainly becomes more understandable why they didn't add a fourth comedy hour. It's also all the more frustrating considering how much comedy strength the network had last year.
- The big premiere Monday winner was NBC, which continued to crush even against the full wave of competition. The Voice dropped by just three tenths week-to-week after finals and did a bit better than I expected. Revolution took a fairly standard 17% week-two drop, but this one feels a little better than fairly standard because there was more competition and... well, it's a 3.5 at 10:00.
- An all-star edition did absolutely nothing to stop the bleeding as Dancing with the Stars was down over a third year-to-year and also way down from the against-Voice spring 2012 premiere (3.5). Castle tanked in finals to a similarly down year-to-year level thanks to being pre-empted in Green Bay for Monday Night Football. (They'd probably rather have had DWTS and Castle in retrospect.)
- On Fox, The Mob Doctor was down from last week's 1.5. My thinking coming in was that 1.1 is a definite pull next week, 1.2 is a close call, and 1.3 may earn it another week or two simply because of how the Monday pre-emptions break in subsequent weeks. We'll see.
- ESPN's super-controversial Monday Night Football (6.4) topped the evening and was somewhat surprisingly even with last week's big numbers. (Seemed like a worse matchup going in...) But the real story for my money was the SportsCenter (3.1) that followed and dug into the game's ridiculous ending. It was the most-watched SportsCenter in history (6.46 million).
| Info | Show | Timeslot | True2 | ||||||
| Viewers | A18-49 | Last | LeLa | Rank | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | ||
| Dancing with the Stars Mon | 14.11 | 2.5 | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | -38% | +67% | -37% | 2.39 |
| Castle | 10.45 | 2.1 | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | -34% | +40% | -34% | 2.26 |
| How I Met Your Mother | 8.84 | 3.6 | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | -23% | +157% | -23% | 3.30 |
| Partners | 6.56 | 2.4 | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | n/a | +71% | -54% | 2.12 |
| 2 Broke Girls | 10.14 | 3.7 | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | -48% | +131% | -65% | 3.47 |
| Mike and Molly | 9.45 | 3.1 | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | -35% | +94% | -56% | 2.76 |
| Hawaii Five-0 | 8.06 | 1.8 | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | -47% | +100% | -47% | 1.84 |
| The Voice Mon | 12.18 | 4.4 | -6% | n/a | 2/3 | n/a | -6% | +132% | 4.24 |
| Revolution | 9.21 | 3.4 | -17% | -6% | 2/2 | n/a | -17% | +106% | 3.33 |
| Bones | 7.61 | 2.3 | +0% | n/a | 1/2 | n/a | +0% | -12% | 2.44 |
| The Mob Doctor | 3.85 | 1.3 | -13% | +0% | 2/2 | n/a | -13% | -50% | 1.28 |
| The LA Complex (S) | 0.57 | 0.2 | +0% | n/a | 7/12 | n/a | -50% | -56% | 0.27 |
| The LA Complex (S) | 0.39 | 0.2 | +0% | n/a | 7/13 | n/a | +0% | -33% | 0.26 |
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.
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.
