The True Top 25, Week Ending 11/11/12 (2012-13 Week Seven)

Pretty standard week for the True Top 25. Sunday Night Football was tops, The Big Bang Theory held off Modern Family again for top entertainment program, The Voice was next, then everything else.

A big drop in the 8:00 hour for ABC Friday meant that Shark Tank was the only Friday/Saturday show on the list this week (with a surging Undercover Boss just barely missing). Revolution was the only new show thanks to Elementary and Malibu Country both dropping out of the mix this week.

Rank	Name	True2	A18-49	ARank
1	Sunday Night Football	6.40	7.9	1
2	The Big Bang Theory	4.26	5.1	2
3	Modern Family	4.13	4.8	3
4	The Voice Mon	3.52	4.5	4
5	The Voice Wed	3.33	3.8	7
6	Two and a Half Men	3.28	4.0	6
7	Grey's Anatomy	3.08	3.3	9
8	NBC Election Coverage	2.92	4.3	5
9	The Voice Thu	2.83	3.0	12
10	2 Broke Girls	2.72	3.2	10
11	Criminal Minds	2.60	3.0	12
12	Survivor	2.49	2.8	16
13	Mike and Molly	2.44	2.8	16
14	The Middle	2.43	2.7	20
15	ABC Election Coverage	2.40	3.4	8
16	Revolution	2.36	2.8	16
17	The X Factor Wed	2.35	2.6	23
18	Person of Interest	2.35	2.9	14
19	Once Upon a Time	2.29	2.7	20
20	The X Factor Thu	2.21	2.3	30
21	Suburgatory	2.15	2.9	14
22	Glee	2.15	2.4	27
23	The Amazing Race	2.12	2.5	24
24	Shark Tank	2.04	2.1	35
25	Family Guy (9pm)	2.03	2.7	20

Missing the True Top 25 but in the A18-49 list: How I Met Your Mother (t-#16 in A18-49, #28 in True2), Revenge (t-#24 in A18-49, #35 in True2), CBS Election Coverage (t-#24 in A18-49, #36 in True2) and The Simpsons (t-#10 in A18-49, #39 in True2).

For more on the True Top 25, click to expand.

I created the True Strength number so I could have an objective way of comparing shows across vastly different situations. One of the most fun comparisons to be made is among the biggest shows on TV. What's really the strongest show in a vacuum? Hence my new weekly feature the True Top 25. This will compare shows while accounting for everything so we can see who Truly comes out on top. I include both the A18-49 and the weekly ranking in A18-49 so you can see the changes within the rankings that True Strength makes.

The A18-49 rankings aren't based on Nielsen's "official" broadcast top 25. They're derived from my own spreadsheet just using the big-five networks, so none of the big players on Univision are included. I've also weeded out some weird programming like NFL overruns and sports pre-game shows. Most of that stuff airs largely out of primetime or is strangely split apart, so I don't want to muddle the list with that.

As mentioned on the sports SpotVault pages, True Strengths for sporting events are based on the primetime portion only. Perhaps in future editions I'll try to get the primetime portion only A18-49 into the A18-49 rankings so it'll be a totally fair comparison. 

Here's last week's True Top 25!