As in week one, six new shows made the cut this week. Four were holdovers from week one (with The Goldbergs and Michael J. Fox dropping out), while two premieres (The Millers and Super Fun Night) eked out a spot for at least this week.
| Rank | Name | True | A18-49 | ARank |
| 1 | Sunday Night Football | 6.66 | 7.0 | 1 |
| 2 | The Big Bang Theory | 5.54 | 5.2 | 2 |
| 3 | The Voice Mon | 4.72 | 4.7 | 3 |
| 4 | The Voice Tue | 4.23 | 4.5 | 4 |
| 5 | Modern Family | 4.00 | 4.2 | 5 |
| 6 | NCIS | 3.53 | 3.5 | 8 |
| 7 | Scandal | 3.42 | 3.6 | 7 |
| 8 | Agents of SHIELD | 3.35 | 3.3 | 9 |
| 9 | Grey's Anatomy | 3.30 | 3.1 | 13 |
| 10 | How I Met Your Mother | 3.25 | 3.1 | 13 |
| 11 | Sleepy Hollow | 3.10 | 3.0 | 15 |
| 12 | Saturday Night Football | 2.86 | 2.5 | 23 |
| 13 | The Blacklist | 2.85 | 3.3 | 9 |
| 14 | The Simpsons | 2.81 | 3.0 | 15 |
| 15 | Once Upon a Time | 2.72 | 2.6 | 21 |
| 16 | The Millers | 2.71 | 3.3 | 9 |
| 17 | Survivor | 2.63 | 2.7 | 18 |
| 18 | Super Fun Night | 2.62 | 3.2 | 12 |
| 19 | The Crazy Ones | 2.60 | 2.9 | 17 |
| 20 | Criminal Minds | 2.45 | 2.7 | 18 |
| 21 | 60 Minutes | 2.41 | 3.8 | 6 |
| 22 | 2 Broke Girls | 2.40 | 2.4 | 25 |
| 23 | Family Guy | 2.40 | 2.5 | 23 |
| 24 | The X Factor Wed | 2.38 | 2.4 | 25 |
| 25 | Two and a Half Men | 2.35 | 2.4 | 25 |
Originals missing the True Top 25 but in the A18-49 list: NCIS: Los Angeles (t-#18 in A18-49, #31 in True), The Amazing Race (t-#25 in A18-49, #34 in True) and Chicago Fire (t-#21 in A18-49, #50 in True).
For more on the True Top 25, click to expand.
I created the True
number so I could have an
objective way of comparing shows across vastly
different situations. One of the most fun
comparisons to be made is among the biggest
shows on TV. What's really the strongest show in a vacuum? Hence the weekly feature the True Top 25.
This will compare shows while accounting for
everything so we can see who Truly comes
out on top. I include both the A18-49 and the
weekly ranking in A18-49 so you can see the
changes within the rankings that True Strength
makes.
The A18-49 rankings aren't based on Nielsen's "official" broadcast top 25. They're derived from my own spreadsheet just using the big-five networks, so none of the big players on Univision are included. I've also weeded out some weird programming like NFL overruns and sports pre-game shows. Most of that stuff airs largely out of primetime or is strangely split apart, so I don't want to muddle the list with that.
As mentioned on the sports SpotVault pages, True Strengths for sporting events are based on the primetime portion only. Perhaps in future editions I'll try to get the primetime portion only A18-49 into the A18-49 rankings so it'll be a totally fair comparison.
The A18-49 rankings aren't based on Nielsen's "official" broadcast top 25. They're derived from my own spreadsheet just using the big-five networks, so none of the big players on Univision are included. I've also weeded out some weird programming like NFL overruns and sports pre-game shows. Most of that stuff airs largely out of primetime or is strangely split apart, so I don't want to muddle the list with that.
As mentioned on the sports SpotVault pages, True Strengths for sporting events are based on the primetime portion only. Perhaps in future editions I'll try to get the primetime portion only A18-49 into the A18-49 rankings so it'll be a totally fair comparison.
