Spotted Ratings, Thursday 1/24/13

WHAT MATTERS:

•  American Idol had another pretty good outing, dropping by less than 10% from last week's Thursday premiere despite airing for just one hour. But the return of The Big Bang Theory looms next week. A nice hold by Idol helped Glee to its best numbers since early October, though it still lost handily to Grey's Anatomy and took a large drop at the half (2.9 -> 2.4 in prelims).

• Parks and Recreation came back to earth a bit following its surprising 8:30 debut last week, but it still pretty comfortably looks like NBC's best in-contention comedy option. Beauty and the Beast made its return to the CW sked with one of its better outings.

• On cable, the FX divergence continues, with another new high for Archer (1.1) and another new low for Anger Management (0.6).

FULL TABLE:

Info			Show				Timeslot		True2
	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Last Resort	5.48	1.2	+20%	n/a	7/13	n/a	+14%	-20%	1.25
Grey's Anatomy	9.01	3.0	+0%	+20%	8/12	n/a	+2%	+140%	3.17
Scandal (R)	5.57	1.7					-35%	+100%	1.51
The Big Bang Theory (R)	11.49	3.2					+0%	-41%	3.00
Two and a Half Men (R)	8.52	2.2					-4%	-37%	2.05
Person of Interest (R)	10.01	1.9					+15%	-10%	1.93
Elementary (R)	7.89	1.5					+7%	-19%	1.51
30 Rock	3.81	1.4	+8%	n/a	2/11	-20%	+8%	-13%	1.39
Parks and Recreation	3.94	1.7	-11%	+8%	3/11	+0%	-11%	+0%	1.93
The Office	4.19	2.0	-5%	-11%	10/12	n/a	-5%	+5%	2.09
1600 Penn	3.28	1.3	+8%	-5%	3/4	n/a	+8%	-7%	1.38
Rock Center	3.72	0.8	-27%	+8%	14/16	n/a	-30%	-20%	0.92
American Idol Thu	15.65	5.2	-7%	n/a	2/2	-5%	-5%	-5%	4.77
Glee	6.79	2.6	+30%	+117%	3/11	n/a	-55%	-9%	2.08
The Vampire Diaries	2.71	1.3	-7%	n/a	6/11	n/a	-7%	+136%	1.38
Beauty and the Beast	1.79	0.7	+17%	+0%	2/10	n/a	+56%	+40%	0.62

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.

More Spotted Ratings in the Index.