Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 11/28/12

WHAT MATTERS:

• The strong season for holiday specials continues. ABC's A Charlie Brown Christmas and NBC's Christmas at Rockefeller Center were slightly up year-to-year, while NBC's two-hour Saturday Night Live Christmas special was up even more vs. last year's SNL special A Very Gilly Christmas (2.1). All those shows were huge improvements over the normal timeslot programming.

• Everything else was original, and most shows were pretty much in line with the last "normal" Wednesday two weeks ago. CSI followed up its pretty strong Thanksgiving Eve showing last week by tying a season high this week and holding about 90% of the Criminal Minds demo.

FULL TABLE:

Info			Show				Timeslot		True2
	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
A Charlie Brown Christmas	8.85	2.9				+3%	+32%	+16%	2.63
Modern Family	12.01	4.7	+2%	+53%	6/9	+2%	+176%	+2%	4.10
Suburgatory	6.73	2.5	+4%	+2%	4/6	+0%	+150%	-4%	1.88
Nashville	5.69	1.8	+0%	+4%	5/7	n/a	+89%	-14%	1.54
Survivor	10.37	2.7	+17%	n/a	8/11	n/a	+15%	+42%	2.75
Criminal Minds	12.37	2.9	+7%	+17%	7/9	n/a	+7%	+61%	2.64
CSI	12.11	2.6	+8%	+7%	1/9	n/a	+11%	+58%	2.15
Christmas in Rockefeller Center	9.14	2.1				+11%	+91%	+68%	2.23
Saturday Night Live Christmas	7.36	2.7				n/a	+104%	+120%	2.46
The X Factor Wed	8.20	2.9	+32%	n/a	6/12	-9%	+30%	+43%	2.91
Arrow	3.74	1.3	+8%	n/a	1/7	n/a	+160%	+333%	1.32
Supernatural	2.00	0.8	-20%	+8%	5/8	n/a	+60%	+100%	0.69

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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