Spotted Ratings, Sunday 9/30/12

WHAT MATTERS:

• ABC premiere Sunday: great for the returnees, not s'much for the new show. Once Upon a Time and the Sunday premiere of Revenge were both just barely below their year-ago series premieres and wayyy ahead of their respective high-2 and low-2 levels from late last spring. Both shows did about 0.3 better than I expected, though most commenters were closer to the mark. Given those results, it's undoubtedly a slow start for 666 Park Ave at 10/9c. It was down about 30% from the year-ago Pan Am premiere despite having the same-sized lead-in.

• NFL overrun-infused Fox saw a nearly-even return from The Simpsons, but it quickly soured from there, as the rest of the animation was down in the general 15-20% vicinity vs. the year-ago occupants.

• CBS was also soft with the returns of The Amazing Race, The Good Wife and the Sunday debut of The Mentalist. The first two were down in the same 15-20%ish range year-to-year, while The Mentalist took a bit bigger hit in its first run at the Sunday 10:00 death slot.

• NBC's great Giants/Eagles matchup sent Sunday Night Football up a bit despite the competition.

• There was some ratings interest on Showtime, where Dexter (1.3) remains another of those cable serials that keeps growing and growing and growing. It was up two tenths year-to-year to yet another best-ever level. Emmy-sweeping Homeland (0.7) came back about equivalent to last season's finale numbers, but that meant massive growth (more than 50%) from last year's series premiere.

FULL TABLE:

Info			Show				Timeslot		True2
	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Once Upon a Time (R)	6.04	1.9					+65%	+52%	2.02
Once Upon a Time	11.36	3.9	n/a	n/a	1/1	-3%	-4%	+70%	3.26
Revenge	9.74	3.2	n/a	n/a	1/1	-3%	-23%	-2%	2.78
666 Park Avenue	6.90	2.1	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	-38%	-32%	1.84
60 Minutes	11.52	1.7	n/a	n/a	1/1	-26%	-81%	-26%	2.08
The Amazing Race	9.40	2.5	n/a	n/a	1/1	-17%	-14%	-15%	2.22
The Good Wife	9.93	1.8	n/a	n/a	1/1	-18%	+89%	-16%	1.71
The Mentalist	11.06	2.1	n/a	n/a	1/1	-25%	+100%	-7%	2.05
Football Night in America p2	3.47	1.2	+0%	n/a	2/4	-48%	+0%	-48%	1.64
Football Night in America p3	12.39	4.7	+27%	+0%	3/4	+2%	+15%	+0%	3.73
Sunday Night Football	22.76	9.0	+3%	+27%	3/5	+8%	+2%	+12%	6.70
NFL Overrun	22.32	8.5	-2%	n/a	3/4	-10%	+710%	+9%	7.60
The Simpsons	8.08	3.8	n/a	n/a	1/1	-3%	+138%	-3%	2.15
Bob's Burgers	5.46	2.6	n/a	n/a	1/1	+37%	+73%	-16%	2.07
Family Guy	6.55	3.3	n/a	n/a	1/1	-20%	+74%	-20%	2.99
American Dad!	5.25	2.5	n/a	n/a	1/1	-17%	+32%	-17%	2.25

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.

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