- Eight days after its NFC Championship preview, over half of the audience forgot about The Following. It hit a disastrous 2.0 rating and barely cracked six million viewers in its Monday premiere, already at series low levels against what should've been fairly favorable competition. It will get a better lead-in than a premiere encore (1.1) going forward, but if it can't at least hold this as the competition gets stiffer, it's now not that hard to see two seasons and out for the top new show of the 2012-13 regular season.
- But other than that result, it was a pretty positive day for broadcast, with the star being CBS' triumphant 200th episode of How I Met Your Mother (3.8). That's a season high for that show, and it boosted the rest of the lineup to season highs or very close: 2 Broke Girls (3.0), Mike and Molly (2.6), Mom (2.4), and even Intelligence (1.5), which also probably benefited somewhat from Castle being in repeats.
- ABC and NBC shared in the good news as The Bachelor (2.5) and the last Voice-less episode of The Blacklist (2.5) each swung back up by a couple ticks.
FULL TABLE:
| Info | Show | Timeslot | True | |||||||
| A18-49 | Skew | Last | LeLa | Rank | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | |||
| The Bachelor | 2.5 | 37% | +9% | +0.2 | n/a | 2/4 | +0% | +9% | +0% | 2.3 |
| Castle (R) | 1.4 | 26% | -30% | +0% | 1.4 | |||||
| ABC: | -3% | +0% | ||||||||
| How I Met Your Mother | 3.8 | 45% | +23% | +0.7 | n/a | 1/15 | n/a | +23% | +138% | 3.2 |
| 2 Broke Girls | 3.0 | 38% | +11% | +0.3 | +0.7 | 1/15 | n/a | +11% | +25% | 2.3 |
| Mike and Molly | 2.6 | 31% | +24% | +0.5 | +0.3 | 1/10 | n/a | +24% | +30% | 2.2 |
| Mom | 2.4 | 32% | +26% | +0.5 | +0.5 | 2/15 | n/a | +26% | +33% | 2.1 |
| Intelligence | 1.5 | 28% | +36% | +0.4 | +0.5 | 2/4 | n/a | +36% | +25% | 1.4 |
| CBS: | +23% | +45% | ||||||||
| Hollywood Game Night | 1.5 | 35% | +0% | +0.0 | n/a | 1/4 | n/a | +15% | -35% | 1.4 |
| Hollywood Game Night | 1.3 | 36% | -13% | -0.2 | n/a | 3/5 | n/a | -13% | -41% | 1.3 |
| The Blacklist | 2.5 | 31% | +9% | +0.2 | -0.2 | 11/13 | n/a | +9% | +100% | 2.6 |
| NBC: | +4% | -8% | ||||||||
| The Following (R) | 1.1 | 35% | -50% | -58% | 1.0 | |||||
| The Following | 2.0 | 42% | -55% | -2.4 | -10.2 | 2/2 | -39% | -17% | -39% | 2.1 |
| Fox: | -33% | -48% | ||||||||
| Hart of Dixie | 0.4 | 44% | +0% | +0.0 | n/a | 2/11 | -20% | +0% | -20% | 0.4 |
| Beauty and the Beast | 0.3 | 46% | +0% | +0.0 | +0.0 | 1/11 | -57% | +0% | -14% | 0.3 |
| CW: | +0% | -18% | ||||||||
| Big5: | -3% | -10% | ||||||||
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.
