Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 11/27/12

WHAT MATTERS:

• The broadcast upswing continued into another day. The only network with atypical listings was ABC, where holiday specials How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Shrek the Halls were just about even with year-ago levels. The finale of Dancing with the Stars, finally given a chance to air fully apart from The Voice, managed to easily outrate all other points this season. Sure, it was still way down year-to-year (vs. last fall's 4.1), but that's been the case all season, and usually to a larger extent. So a generally miserable season for the franchise at least ends on a less miserable note.

•  CBS saw the mothership NCIS take a big surge, but that upswing didn't really continue into NCIS: Los Angeles and Vegas, which had to face DWTS this time (when it's usually the mothership doing so). This is another piece of evidence that DWTS has an incredible amount of crossover with CBS programming; see also CBS' big surge in the Dancing-free 9:00 hour last Monday.

• Regularly-scheduled Fox and NBC on average upswung somewhere in the mid-teens vs. last week.

FULL TABLE:

Info			Show				Timeslot		True2
	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
How the Grinch Stole Christmas	8.37	2.4				-4%	+26%	-11%	2.03
Shrek the Halls	8.44	2.5				-4%	+25%	+32%	2.23
Dancing with the Stars Tue	16.73	3.0	+50%	n/a	1/9	-27%	+161%	-27%	2.45
NCIS	19.76	3.6	+20%	n/a	3/8	+3%	+18%	+3%	3.39
NCIS: Los Angeles	14.49	2.9	+4%	+20%	4/8	-3%	+2%	-5%	2.17
Vegas	9.35	1.6	-11%	+4%	6/8	n/a	-9%	-27%	1.26
The Voice Tue	11.57	3.8	+12%	n/a	9/13	n/a	+13%	+95%	3.54
Go On	6.06	2.5	+19%	+12%	5/9	n/a	+14%	+32%	1.75
The New Normal	4.04	1.7	+13%	+19%	7/10	n/a	+13%	-19%	1.39
Parenthood	4.49	1.8	+6%	+13%	5/9	-5%	+9%	-5%	1.61
Raising Hope	3.87	1.8	+20%	n/a	1/8	n/a	+20%	-40%	1.91
Ben and Kate	2.82	1.4	+27%	+20%	4/9	n/a	+27%	-59%	1.35
New Girl	4.12	2.3	+15%	+27%	6/9	n/a	+15%	-28%	2.03
The Mindy Project	2.76	1.5	+15%	+15%	5/7	n/a	+15%	-55%	1.26
Hart of Dixie	1.39	0.5	+0%	n/a	5/8	-29%	+0%	-17%	0.55
Emily Owens M.D.	1.05	0.3	-25%	+0%	4/6	n/a	-25%	-25%	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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