Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 4/9/13

WHAT MATTERS:

• NBC's new reality series Ready for Love got off to a very disappointing start. For this week, at least, it did improve the timeslot vs. the last two weeks of weak post-Voice occupants (Go On, The New Normal and Smash), but only by a paltry three ticks or so in each half-hour. The all-important half-hour breakdowns were an ugly 2.1 -> 1.6 -> 1.3 -> 1.2 in prelims, and of course the 1.5 number will be of significance to Hannibal fans, whose show premiered better than that number with a 3.5-point weaker lead-in. Usually I am relatively gunshy in these matters, but if there's no trainwreck appeal out of the gate, there's really no reason to give this show much more time here. Score one for the human race, I guess?

• The other networks were almost all original, but there wasn't a lot of week-to-week excitement outside of an oddly stinky showing from the NCIS mothership and another crash from Splash.

FULL TABLE:

Info			Show				Timeslot		True2
	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Splash	5.24	1.2	-14%	n/a	4/4	n/a	-14%	-25%	1.43
Dancing with the Stars Tue	12.13	2.0	-13%	-14%	3/3	-13%	-13%	-15%	2.15
Body of Proof	8.98	1.4	+0%	-13%	3/8	-26%	+0%	-28%	1.39
NCIS	17.22	2.7	-16%	n/a	20/20	-13%	+100%	-13%	3.11
NCIS: Los Angeles	14.10	2.7	+4%	-16%	16/20	+13%	+64%	+13%	2.53
Golden Boy	7.89	1.5	+15%	+69%	4/8	n/a	+15%	-17%	1.37
The Voice Tue	13.31	4.4	-2%	n/a	2/3	+26%	-1%	+110%	4.84
Ready for Love	3.67	1.5	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	+22%	-43%	1.19
Hell's Kitchen Mon	4.53	1.9	-5%	n/a	6/6	n/a	-5%	-30%	2.23
New Girl	4.09	2.2	+10%	-34%	12/22	-21%	+69%	-21%	2.17
The Mindy Project	2.66	1.5	+15%	+10%	10/21	n/a	+15%	-17%	1.50
Hart of Dixie	1.20	0.6	+0%	n/a	2/18	+20%	+140%	+140%	0.74
America's Next Top Model (R)	0.56	0.2					+0%	-56%	0.19

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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