- The X Factor joined The Voice in taking an atypical week-to-week dip for its performance finale. That meant this X data point suffered perhaps the ultimate embarrassment: it was down more than 50% year-to-year! It'll have to go above a 1.5 tonight to avoid the same fate for the season finale. Simon Cowell seems convinced this thing is getting renewed; all I can say about that is it'd be fascinating to hear the execs have to justify that decision at press tours. X was also crushed by some special programming on other nets, including ABC comedy repeats and, for the second straight week, NBC's The Sing-Off (itself down from last Wednesday on a low-usage night).
- The night's real winner was ABC, where The Goldbergs repeated pretty well in its first ever Wednesday tryout. (It was two ticks above last year's corresponding The Neighbors repeat.) And Barbara Walters' final 10 Most Fascinating People special was up a tick year-to-year even though it led out of an original Modern Family last year.
FULL TABLE:
| Info | Show | Timeslot | True | |||||||
| A18-49 | Skew | Last | LeLa | Rank | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | |||
| The Middle (R) | 1.4 | 31% | -30% | +8% | 1.4 | |||||
| The Goldbergs (R) | 1.2 | 33% | -20% | +20% | 1.2 | |||||
| Modern Family (R) | 1.8 | 37% | -50% | +0% | 2.0 | |||||
| Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating | 2.2 | 31% | +5% | +43% | +40% | 2.4 | ||||
| ABC: | -6% | +25% | ||||||||
| A Home for the Holidays | 0.7 | 18% | -13% | -72% | -18% | 0.7 | ||||
| Criminal Minds (R) | 1.3 | 26% | -46% | -4% | 1.6 | |||||
| CSI (R) | 1.1 | 21% | -41% | +0% | 1.2 | |||||
| CBS: | -54% | -6% | ||||||||
| The Sing-Off | 1.6 | 37% | -20% | -0.4 | n/a | 4/5 | n/a | -12% | -12% | 1.7 |
| A Michael Buble Christmas | 1.3 | 33% | -7% | -7% | -33% | 1.4 | ||||
| NBC: | -11% | -20% | ||||||||
| The X Factor Wed | 1.3 | 33% | -7% | -0.1 | n/a | 12/13 | -52% | -9% | -53% | 1.4 |
| Fox: | -9% | -53% | ||||||||
| iHeartRadio Jingle Ball | 0.5 | 48% | n/a | -38% | +43% | 0.6 | ||||
| CW: | -38% | +43% | ||||||||
| Big5: | -23% | -18% | ||||||||
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.
