Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 4/16/13

WHAT MATTERS:

• NBC's Ready for Love was down three ticks from its already disastrous premiere last week, and its preliminary half hours were 1.8 -> 1.2 -> 1.2 -> 1.0. That means its ratings now pretty much mirror those of duds Go On, The New Normal and Smash in their spring post-Voice berths. NBC should not waste the nearly two remaining months of The Voice on this show any longer. But there aren't any abundantly obvious alternatives, so this will be interesting to watch.

• It was a slow day elsewhere, though of note on CBS was the network flipping the repeats of NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS. These numbers should help to illustrate that the disparity in these shows' actual strengths is larger than it might normally appear when NCIS is in the tougher slot. And the mothership at 9/8c meant a lead-in not that much worse than usual for Golden Boy.

FULL TABLE:

Info			Show				Timeslot		True2
	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Splash	5.22	1.1	-8%	n/a	5/5	n/a	-12%	-27%	1.39
Dancing with the Stars Tue	12.73	2.2	+10%	-8%	3/4	-12%	+13%	-10%	2.33
Body of Proof	8.94	1.4	+0%	+10%	3/9	n/a	+0%	-20%	1.31
NCIS: Los Angeles (R)	9.39	1.3					-52%	-59%	1.63
NCIS (R)	12.61	2.2					-17%	+10%	2.29
Golden Boy	8.07	1.5	+0%	-19%	4/9	n/a	+3%	-3%	1.41
The Voice Tue	14.16	4.6	+5%	n/a	1/4	+39%	+5%	+100%	5.34
Ready for Love	3.20	1.2	-20%	+5%	2/2	n/a	-20%	-51%	0.84
Hell's Kitchen Mon	4.77	2.1	+11%	n/a	2/7	n/a	+8%	-13%	2.60
New Girl (R)	2.27	1.1					-50%	-59%	1.07
The Mindy Project (R)	1.82	0.9					-40%	-50%	1.10
Hart of Dixie	1.30	0.5	-17%	n/a	12/19	-17%	-9%	+67%	0.65
America's Next Top Model (R)	0.59	0.2					-20%	-60%	0.21

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.