Spotted Ratings, Monday 4/15/13

WHAT MATTERS:

• In the fall, The Voice on its main night actually peaked in the battle rounds, and we may be headed that way again: the first battle week hit another season high. And NBC got much better-than-usual 10/9c numbers with an NBC News special covering the explosions in Boston going 36% ahead of recent Revolution results.

• CBS Monday was back in originals in totally disastrous fashion, with 2 Broke Girls taking its second enormous drop in the last three episodes. This show was in the mid-to-upper 3's in February! How I Met Your Mother, Mike and Molly and Hawaii Five-0 were also very low, and Fox was on the low end with Bones and The Following.

• And the CW brought back summer filler Oh Sit! at about the same level it maintained during its first season, while 90210 returned from more than a month off to begin its march to the finish line.

• On cable, Syfy's two hour premiere of Defiance (1.0) got off to a very good start by the beaten-down standards of Syfy's recent scripted programming. Considering their top scripted shows Being Human and Warehouse 13 have been mired in the 0.4 to 0.6 range of late, this show could be a big deal for them.

FULL TABLE:

Info			Show				Timeslot		True2
	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Dancing with the Stars Mon	13.40	2.2	+5%	n/a	3/5	-24%	+5%	-23%	2.29
Castle	10.18	2.0	-9%	+0%	9/20	-5%	+67%	-5%	1.99
How I Met Your Mother	6.58	2.7	+0%	n/a	19/20	-13%	+80%	-13%	2.54
Rules of Engagement	6.11	2.1	-5%	+0%	8/9	-5%	+5%	-38%	2.01
2 Broke Girls	7.54	2.4	-20%	-5%	21/21	-29%	-33%	-37%	2.52
Mike and Molly	7.76	2.2	-15%	-20%	19/19	-29%	-74%	-29%	2.34
Hawaii Five-0	7.65	1.8	-14%	-15%	19/20	n/a	-79%	+13%	1.80
The Voice Mon	14.45	5.2	+4%	n/a	1/4	+41%	+4%	+41%	4.94
Terror in Boston	8.83	3.0				n/a	+36%	+58%	2.39
Bones	6.56	1.9	-5%	n/a	19/22	-14%	+73%	-12%	1.91
The Following	6.36	2.1	-5%	+73%	13/13	n/a	-5%	+5%	2.30
Oh Sit!	0.94	0.4	n/a	n/a	1/1	-20%	+0%	-27%	0.43
90210	0.55	0.2	+0%	+0%	16/18	n/a	+0%	-67%	0.25

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.