- The broadcast networks pretty much all came up aces to open the pre-premiere week, but the headliner was certainly Fox's Sleepy Hollow, whose premiere not only more than doubled year-ago occupant The Mob Doctor (1.5) but also edged all of Fox's other low-3's drama premieres in the last few years, from Terra Nova (3.1) to Alcatraz (3.3) to The Following (3.2). Of course, those shows' post-premiere results ended up being rather mixed, but Hollow's gonna have much more cushion than any of those because we're now living in a world where The X Factor gets low 2's.
- Hollow's lead-in was the ever-consistent Bones dead even with last year's premiere, though it might have been helped a bit by the considerable heat in the 9:00 hour.
- On ABC, Dancing with the Stars got a one-week head start on The Voice and was just a tick below then number when it had that head start in spring 2013. (And up 24% on last year's against-Voice premiere.) That season quickly disintegrated back into the low 2's the next week against The Voice, so it's still a "wait and see," but it's still a good start even if it comes down a bit in finals due to Pittsburgh football pre-emptions.
- Back to a normal start time, CBS' Under the Dome departed for the summer with its best number since July. It was up 33% from the overrun-depressed penultimate ep but just a tick from two weeks ago.
FULL TABLE:
| Info | Show | Timeslot | True | |||||||
| A18-49 | Skew | Last | LeLa | Rank | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | |||
| Dancing with the Stars Mon | 3.1 | 25% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | +24% | +170% | +103% | 3.0 |
| Castle (R) | 1.3 | 24% | +44% | -7% | 1.1 | |||||
| ABC: | +134% | +69% | ||||||||
| How I Met Your Mother (R) | 1.4 | 41% | +133% | +0% | 1.3 | |||||
| 2 Broke Girls (R) | 1.5 | 38% | +67% | +7% | 1.6 | |||||
| 2 Broke Girls (R) | 1.5 | 38% | +50% | -6% | 1.5 | |||||
| The Big Bang Theory (R) | 1.8 | 37% | -5% | +13% | 1.9 | |||||
| Under the Dome | 2.8 | 29% | +33% | +0.7 | -0.1 | 3/13 | n/a | +33% | +229% | 2.9 |
| CBS: | +37% | +53% | ||||||||
| The Million Second Quiz | 1.0 | 35% | -9% | -0.1 | n/a | 5/7 | n/a | -41% | -78% | 1.0 |
| American Ninja Warrior | 1.5 | 47% | -12% | -0.2 | -0.7 | 9/12 | n/a | -12% | -70% | 1.7 |
| Siberia | 0.6 | 44% | +0% | +0.0 | -0.2 | 7/11 | n/a | +0% | -85% | 0.6 |
| NBC: | -23% | -77% | ||||||||
| Bones | 2.3 | 38% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | +0% | +188% | -2% | 2.2 |
| Sleepy Hollow | 3.5 | 44% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | n/a | +338% | +133% | 3.4 |
| Fox: | +263% | +51% | ||||||||
| Hart of Dixie (R) | 0.2 | 49% | +0% | -43% | 0.2 | |||||
| Breaking Pointe | 0.2 | 59% | +0% | +0.0 | +0.0 | 1/9 | n/a | +0% | -20% | 0.2 |
| CW: | +0% | -33% | ||||||||
| Big5: | +78% | -9% | ||||||||
KEY (click to expand)
A18-49 - Adults 18-49 rating. Percentage of US TV-owning adults 18-49 watching the program.
Skew - Percentage of adults 18-49 within the show's total viewership.
Last - A18-49 difference (percent and numerical) from the show's previous episode.
LeLa - A18-49 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 so far this season.
y2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the show's rating a year ago.
TLa - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one week ago.
Ty2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one year ago.
True - 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.
Skew - Percentage of adults 18-49 within the show's total viewership.
Last - A18-49 difference (percent and numerical) from the show's previous episode.
LeLa - A18-49 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 so far this season.
y2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the show's rating a year ago.
TLa - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one week ago.
Ty2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one year ago.
True - 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.
