- We've got what I would call our first severe underperformance of the new season, and it's season two of The X Factor. It inched up in finals but still trailed the year-ago premiere by 23%. Responders went 5-1 picking "Under" my first huge miss, but even most of them saw the show going a lot higher than this. Clearly the so-called "Britney Spears Effect" was basically meaningless and greatly out-weighed by the general negative momentum for the singing competition genre. This 3.4 level was about where X settled at the very end of last season.
- Meanwhile, NBC's move of a The Voice hour to Wednesday worked pretty well. That rating was well below the Monday/Tuesday premieres, but it routed X Factor head-to-head in the 8:00 hour. (It went 2.9/3.7 in the 8:00 hour while X went 2.6/2.9.) X Factor picked up at 9:00 after The Voice was over (3.7/3.9). The 8:00 -> 9:00 discrepancy was clearly more than it would've been without The Voice; last season's premiere breakdown was 3.7 -> 4.6 -> 4.5 -> 4.7 when there was much more competition at 9:00.
- NBC rounded out its evening with the penultimate evening of America's Got Talent, riding The Voice lead-in to its best numbers since early July. They then previewed new comedy Guys with Kids, which considering the lead-in discrepancy I'd say did about the same as Monday's "meh" The New Normal preview.
FULL TABLE:
| Info | Show | Timeslot | True2 | ||||||
| Viewers | A18-49 | Last | LeLa | Rank | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | ||
| The Middle (SR) | 3.61 | 0.9 | -10% | -25% | 0.86 | ||||
| Suburgatory (SR) | 2.93 | 0.9 | +0% | -40% | 1.10 | ||||
| Modern Family (SR) | 3.69 | 1.3 | +0% | -35% | 1.44 | ||||
| Suburgatory (SR) | 2.77 | 1.0 | +0% | -44% | 1.12 | ||||
| Revenge (SR) | 2.48 | 0.6 | -37% | -57% | 0.71 | ||||
| Big Brother Wed | 6.19 | 2.1 | +0% | n/a | 2/9 | -28% | +0% | -26% | 2.33 |
| Criminal Minds (SR) | 5.54 | 1.2 | +0% | -27% | 1.16 | ||||
| CSI (SR) | 6.49 | 1.3 | +53% | +18% | 1.38 | ||||
| The Voice Wed | 10.89 | 3.4 | -15% | n/a | 3/3 | n/a | -47% | +172% | 3.49 |
| America's Got Talent Tue | 11.05 | 2.9 | +21% | n/a | 7/16 | -24% | -71% | -3% | 2.56 |
| Guys with Kids | 6.25 | 2.2 | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | n/a | -76% | +29% | 1.93 |
| The New Normal (R) | 3.80 | 1.3 | -86% | -13% | 1.21 | ||||
| The X Factor Wed | 8.73 | 3.4 | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | -23% | +131% | +178% | 3.44 |
| Oh Sit! | 0.88 | 0.4 | +0% | n/a | 2/7 | n/a | +0% | -20% | 0.48 |
| Supernatural (SR) | 0.71 | 0.3 | +0% | -40% | 0.32 | ||||
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 fromious episode.
LeLa - A18-49 percent difference between the show's lead-in and its lead-in for theious 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 fromious episode.
LeLa - A18-49 percent difference between the show's lead-in and its lead-in for theious 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.
