Spotted Ratings, Friday 12/6/13

WHAT MATTERS:

• Eleven regular series aired on Friday night. All eleven were up from their most recent originals in 18-49, at least preliminarily. (The Neighbors and The Carrie Diaries adjusted down in finals to merely even.) Among the most significant: NBC swung back up after a Black Friday hiccup with Grimm and, perhaps more importantly, grew at 10/9c with Dracula. After three straight 0.9's, it now finds itself back at a level that could make season two look more reasonable for the co-production... if it can maintain it when it returns, which won't be for at least four weeks. (Grimm airs two episodes next week, then both go into repeats.) And Fox's Bones continued its impressive recovery on Friday, tying the occupant of its old slot, Almost Human.

• Some of the growth may have come because CBS sat out its regular lineup and was softer than usual, especially in the last two hours. They had solid holiday specials Frosty the Snowman and Yes, Virginia at 8:00, an NCIS: Los Angeles repeat at 9:00 and the Grammy Nominations Concert at 10:00. All three specials were down double-digits year-to-year, with the concert down 27% in a move from Wednesday to Friday.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Last Man Standing	1.4	28%	+17%	+0.2	n/a	2/10	-7%	-7%	-7%	1.6
The Neighbors	0.9	27%	+0%	+0.0	+0.2	7/10	-53%	-40%	-36%	0.9
Shark Tank	2.0	34%	+11%	+0.2	+0.0	1/11	+11%	+74%	+38%	2.0
20/20	1.1	28%	+22%	+0.2	+0.8	10/12	-8%	+22%	-8%	1.2
							ABC:	+20%	+4%
Frosty the Snowman	1.7	32%					-15%	+325%	+13%	1.9
Yes, Virginia	1.4	32%					-13%	+133%	-22%	1.3
NCIS: Los Angeles (R)	0.8	18%						-50%	-45%	0.9
Grammy Nominations Concert	1.1	26%					-27%	-45%	-19%	1.4
							CBS:	-16%	-22%
Dateline Fri	1.4	24%	+17%	+0.2	n/a	1/10	-18%	+22%	+4%	1.5
Grimm	1.6	32%	+23%	+0.3	+0.2	2/6	n/a	+19%	-3%	1.6
Dracula	1.1	36%	+22%	+0.2	+0.3	3/6	n/a	+22%	-35%	1.2
							NBC:	+21%	-13%
Bones	1.7	31%	+13%	+0.2	n/a	9/11	-11%	+183%	+42%	1.8
Raising Hope	0.8	37%	+33%	+0.2	+1.1	1/7	-43%	+33%	-20%	0.8
Raising Hope	0.7	42%	-13%	-0.1	-0.9	5/8	-50%	+17%	-22%	0.8
							Fox:	+104%	+14%
The Carrie Diaries	0.3	42%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	1/6	n/a	-14%	-25%	0.3
Nikita	0.3	45%	+50%	+0.1	-0.1	1/3	-25%	+50%	+20%	0.3
							CW:	+9%	-8%
							Big5:	+19%	-6%

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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