Spotted Ratings, Thursday 4/18/13

WHAT MATTERS:

• NBC's Hannibal had a disappointing week three, dropping a significant three tenths from its fairly good week two number. With the return of original competition looming next week, a good deal of its cushion is gone. But the rest of the NBC evening was more reasonable as Community ticked up again and Parks and Recreation (1.7 at 9:00 and 9:30) was above average in a special one-hour airing.

• CBS' week of repeat experimentation continued with a two-hour comedy tryout, and The Big Bang Theory and 2 Broke Girls combined to equal the last original Person of Interest rating in this hour two weeks ago. It's not so much a win for "scheduling comedy here" as it is for "scheduling The Big Bang Theory in every timeslot, TBS style." Since they can't do that, ultimately the comedy scheduling is probably going to be much more about the new comedies than about these results.

• Fox and the CDub were all original and fairly soft, especially CW anchor The Vampire Diaries, which returned from a couple weeks off at very low levels. (Though it did adjust up in finals to merely tie a low.)

FULL TABLE:

Info			Show				Timeslot		True2
	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Wife Swap	4.63	1.5	+7%	n/a	2/5	n/a	+7%	+7%	1.83
Grey's Anatomy (R)	4.02	1.1					-12%	-66%	1.31
Scandal (R)	3.31	0.8					-16%	-60%	1.00
The Big Bang Theory (R)	11.43	3.1					+3%	+24%	3.59
Two and a Half Men (R)	8.79	2.4					+20%	+9%	2.61
The Big Bang Theory (R)	10.89	3.3					+83%	+120%	3.39
2 Broke Girls (R)	7.71	2.2					+29%	+38%	2.19
Person of Interest (R)	8.63	1.6					+14%	+3%	1.66
Community	3.13	1.3	+8%	n/a	3/10	+0%	+8%	+0%	1.57
The Office (R)	2.24	1.0					-33%	-33%	1.33
Parks and Recreation	3.35	1.7	+13%	-17%	4/19	+0%	-11%	-23%	2.06
Parks and Recreation	3.34	1.7	+0%	+70%	4/20	+0%	+55%	+0%	1.98
Hannibal	3.51	1.4	-18%	+55%	3/3	n/a	-18%	+65%	1.54
American Idol Thu	12.42	3.0	-6%	n/a	11/14	-25%	-8%	-24%	3.54
Glee	6.14	2.1	-13%	-6%	12/19	-13%	-11%	+0%	2.14
The Vampire Diaries	2.14	1.0	-17%	n/a	18/19	+0%	+233%	-5%	1.25
Beauty and the Beast	1.59	0.6	+0%	-17%	6/18	n/a	+100%	+20%	0.61

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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