- The finale of American Idol adjusted up in finals to a 3.6 demo, down a ridiculous 44% from last season's final episode. As I said yesterday, don't crucify the show over this individual point, because most Idol finales have faced almost no competition, and this one faced a ton. This was roughly what most of you expected, actually. Crucify it over the fact that it's been down a third or more year-to-year even in recent weeks when it faced almost no competition. Either way, it will not be a fun off-season for the Fox brass as they try to stabilize this sinking ship.
- Meanwhile, NBC sent off The Office at easily its highest level of the season. It's the show's best rating since the middle of last season. And the 8:00 retrospective special was close to in line with the season's original average (and a big improvement over the usual 8/7c occupants). But the bigger lead-in didn't help Hannibal at all in a special 10:15-starting episode.
- Big finale nights on the other networks were a bit underwhelming, surely due to the hefty competition. For the fourth time in six years The Big Bang Theory was down week-to-week for its season finale (though just by a single tick following a huge finals adjustment), while a two-hour Elementary, Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, The Vampire Diaries and Beauty and the Beast were all only about even week-to-week.
FULL TABLE:
| Info | Show | Timeslot | True2 | ||||||
| Viewers | A18-49 | Last | LeLa | Rank | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | ||
| Wipeout | 3.81 | 1.0 | -9% | n/a | 3/3 | n/a | -20% | -26% | 1.27 |
| Grey's Anatomy | 8.99 | 3.1 | +0% | -23% | 7/24 | -24% | +2% | -23% | 3.81 |
| Scandal | 9.12 | 3.2 | +0% | +0% | 1/22 | +39% | +0% | +36% | 3.29 |
| The Big Bang Theory | 15.48 | 4.8 | -2% | n/a | 20/24 | +9% | -2% | +92% | 5.58 |
| The Big Bang Theory (R) | 11.83 | 3.3 | -6% | +57% | 3.34 | ||||
| Elementary | 8.98 | 2.0 | +5% | +38% | 19/22 | n/a | -6% | -21% | 2.14 |
| The Office (R) | 4.43 | 2.1 | +75% | +56% | 2.61 | ||||
| The Office | 5.69 | 3.0 | +30% | +91% | 1/23 | +30% | +55% | +173% | 3.46 |
| Hannibal | 2.46 | 1.1 | +0% | +30% | 4/7 | n/a | +5% | +69% | 1.03 |
| American Idol Thu | 14.31 | 3.6 | +24% | n/a | 8/18 | -44% | +47% | +17% | 4.26 |
| The Vampire Diaries | 2.24 | 1.1 | +10% | n/a | 16/23 | -8% | +10% | +267% | 1.42 |
| Beauty and the Beast | 1.26 | 0.5 | +0% | +10% | 15/22 | n/a | +11% | +150% | 0.52 |
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.
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.
1 comment:
Adjustments are a mystery, but some shows have standard adjustments. For instance, I can always count on Survivor being a tenth higher than it is initially listed. I would say that the standard TBBT adjustment is about 2 or 3 tenths.
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