Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 10/30/12

WHAT MATTERS:

• It might have seemed off-base when I suggested Ben and Kate and The Mindy Project were essentially the same show despite Mindy's considerable raw numbers advantage. But give them the same competition thanks to a two-hour The Voice and that's pretty much what you get. 8:00's Raising Hope and Ben and Kate were even, but New Girl and The Mindy Project each took a significant hit. Of course, it also probably didn't help Mindy that she'd been off for three weeks. And I'm not saying kill off any of the 9:00 comedies because of this atypical evening. Just saying this kinda illustrates that the normal Tuesday 8:00 situation is much tougher than the normal Tuesday 9:00 one. We'll see how it goes on the other side of yet another pre-emption for the election next week.

• Speaking of comedies getting slammed against The Voice, ABC's Happy Endings and Apartment 23 took even bigger hits in their second weeks.

• Week five of CBS Tuesday finally stopped the bleeding with NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles and Vegas all even or up a little.

• Not expecting finals adjustments as significant on Monday, but Sandy was still in play with 10/9c news specials on NBC (2.9 post-Voice) and ABC (1.3).

FULL TABLE:

Info			Show				Timeslot		True2
	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Dancing with the Stars Tue	11.49	1.8	-22%	n/a	6/6	-36%	-20%	-27%	1.54
Happy Endings	4.31	1.4	-22%	-22%	2/2	-59%	-22%	-42%	1.25
Apartment 23	3.25	1.2	-29%	-22%	2/2	n/a	-29%	-56%	1.22
20/20	4.82	1.3	+0%	-33%	6/9	+8%	-10%	-28%	1.18
NCIS	18.83	3.4	+6%	n/a	3/5	-13%	+5%	-17%	3.08
NCIS: Los Angeles	16.28	2.8	+0%	+6%	4/5	-18%	+0%	-24%	2.20
Vegas	10.75	1.7	+6%	+0%	4/5	n/a	+10%	-32%	1.25
The Voice Tue	12.13	4.6	+7%	n/a	2/8	n/a	+45%	+136%	3.91
NBC News Sandy Special	8.29	2.9				n/a	+57%	+205%	1.85
Raising Hope	4.05	1.7	+0%	n/a	2/5	-32%	+0%	-54%	1.76
Ben and Kate	3.01	1.4	+0%	+0%	4/6	n/a	+0%	-67%	1.31
New Girl	4.75	2.3	-15%	+0%	6/6	-36%	-15%	-49%	2.06
The Mindy Project	3.12	1.5	-21%	-15%	4/4	n/a	-35%	-67%	1.32
Hart of Dixie	1.41	0.6	+20%	n/a	2/5	n/a	+9%	+71%	0.62
Emily Owens M.D.	1.03	0.3	+0%	+20%	2/3	n/a	+0%	+0%	0.27

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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