Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 9/17/13

WHAT MATTERS:

• It wasn't exactly Sleepy Hollow, but Fox's Tuesday comedy lineup got off to a pretty positive start. Newbie Dads did an acceptable lead-off number, Brooklyn Nine-Nine was (to me anyway) the biggest surprise in building noticeably at 8:30, and New Girl and The Mindy Project both went nearly 50% above their spring levels. I'm not really into the year-to-year comparisons here since there was so little competition compared to their premiere week premieres a year ago. The real question is how much these numbers "matter" with an absolute onslaught arriving next week, particuarly in the new shows' 8:00 hour. The way I looked at it, at least for the new shows, was if they posted numbers that could withstand a one-third drop and still not be considered dead shows, it's a positive. It appears they at least accomplished that much (though it might be kinda close with Dads).

• The performance finale of NBC's America's Got Talent went 17% behind last year's The Voice-assisted performance finale, but tonight's season finale may be set up for year-to-year growth (since The Voice pushed it to Thursday last year).

• On the last Tuesday before ABC gets into the Agents of SHIELD business, they warmed up by airing Iron Man 2, which did OK but unspectacular for a repeat theatrical. And CBS repeated all its Tuesday drama finales to much improved results.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Movie: Iron Man 2	1.2	40%					n/a	+31%	-14%	1.2
							ABC:	+31%	-14%
NCIS (R)	1.4	17%						+27%	-13%	1.5
NCIS: Los Angeles (R)	1.1	17%						+22%	-27%	1.0
Person of Interest (R)	1.0	20%						+33%	-31%	1.1
							CBS:	+27%	-23%
The Million Second Quiz	1.1	27%	+10%	+0.1	n/a	4/8	n/a	-29%	-77%	1.2
America's Got Talent Tue	2.4	27%	+4%	+0.1	-0.4	10/16	-17%	+5%	+5%	2.3
							NBC:	-3%	-36%
Dads	2.2	48%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	+69%	+47%	2.3
Brooklyn Nine-Nine	2.6	54%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	+86%	+73%	2.8
New Girl	2.9	67%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	+4%	+123%	+71%	2.6
The Mindy Project	1.9	63%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	-21%	+36%	+0%	1.8
							Fox:	+78%	+45%
Whose Line Is It Anyway?	0.9	47%	n/a	n/a	n/a	4/11	n/a	+13%	+200%	1.0
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (R)	0.8	44%						+14%	+300%	0.9
Capture	0.4	53%	+0%	+0.0	+0.1	1/8	n/a	+0%	+100%	0.4
							CW:	+9%	+178%
							Big5:	+25%	-7%

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.

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