Spotted Ratings, Thursday 5/23/13

WHAT MATTERS:

• The opening day of summer was pretty crowded with premieres, but few of them drew a lot of interest. Making the biggest splash was Fox's old faithful Hell's Kitchen, which began the summer portion of its season at its highest level since the mid-March premiere. It led into a relatively soft debut from widely derided reality series Does Someone Have to Go?.

• ABC was also all original with Motive, which ended up holding its entire post-Dancing with the Stars demo from three days earlier, and the fourth season premiere of fellow co-production Rookie Blue, down a couple tenths from last year.

• NBC began its burn-off of sitcom Save Me, which certainly affirmed the notion that it didn't fit at all with NBC's in-season comedies. Its skew was hugely different; it actually had more total viewers than most Community episodes but barely half of the demo rating. Hannibal at 10/9c was roughly even with recent in-season results, which can be spun two very different ways: 1) It held up even though its lead-in was over two points weaker than last week! or 2) It couldn't grow despite facing way less competition from ABC and CBS! Ultimately those two things probably roughly cancel out.

FULL TABLE:

Info			Show				Timeslot		True2
	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Wipeout	4.22	1.2	+20%	n/a	2/4	n/a	+14%	-27%	1.57
Motive	6.06	1.3	+0%	-54%	1/2	n/a	-57%	-28%	1.70
Rookie Blue	5.99	1.2	n/a	n/a	1/1	-14%	-63%	-14%	1.57
The Big Bang Theory (SR)	9.06	2.2					-54%	-4%	2.86
Two and a Half Men (SR)	7.71	1.8					-45%	+6%	2.16
Person of Interest (SR)	6.87	1.2					-40%	-17%	1.47
Elementary (SR)	4.70	0.9					-54%	-38%	1.21
Save Me	3.18	0.7	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	-65%	+0%	0.94
Save Me	2.93	0.7	+0%	n/a	1/2	n/a	-67%	+0%	1.10
The Office (SR)	1.92	0.6					-79%	-40%	0.94
Parks and Recreation (SR)	1.79	0.7					-77%	-50%	1.11
Hannibal	2.69	1.0	-9%	-77%	7/8	n/a	-13%	+5%	1.43
Hell's Kitchen	5.62	2.2	+29%	n/a	2/13	n/a	-30%	+0%	2.83
Does Someone Have to Go?	3.02	1.3	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	-67%	-51%	1.52
The Vampire Diaries (SR)	0.81	0.3					-71%	+0%	0.41
Beauty and the Beast (SR)	0.74	0.2					-60%	+0%	0.28

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.