- Sunday Event Season has begun with The Golden Globe Awards, which ended up a tick ahead of last year's strong show. This continues the positive ratings momentum for the show under hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
- The other three networks all went original against the Globes, with CBS riding an NFL playoff lead-in to season highs across the board. All of the Fox/ABC shows were down somewhat from their airings against the Globes last year: Fox's The Simpsons (2.2, -8%), Bob's Burgers (1.9, -17%), Family Guy (2.6, -19%) and American Dad! (2.3, -4%) and ABC's Revenge (1.6, -20%). To Revenge's credit, it had a massively worse lead-in than last week/last year, as the second special The Bachelor barely managed half of last week's number.
- On cable, HBO got a respectable premiere out of new drama True Detective (1.0), then had a double-episode premiere for much-buzzed comedy Girls (0.6/0.5), which outrated all results from last season (when they didn't have an original lead-in). Showtime's premieres of Shameless (0.9) and House of Lies (0.4) were each down a couple ticks from last year.
FULL TABLE:
| Info | Show | Timeslot | True | |||||||
| A18-49 | Skew | Last | LeLa | Rank | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | |||
| America's Funniest Home Videos | 1.0 | 25% | -38% | -0.6 | n/a | 12/12 | -29% | -35% | -26% | 1.1 |
| The Bachelor Special | 1.0 | 38% | -44% | -0.8 | -0.6 | 2/2 | n/a | -46% | -65% | 1.2 |
| Revenge | 1.6 | 36% | -11% | -0.2 | -0.8 | 5/12 | -20% | -11% | -20% | 1.8 |
| Betrayal | 0.8 | 37% | +14% | +0.1 | -0.2 | 7/12 | n/a | +7% | -6% | 0.9 |
| ABC: | -26% | -38% | ||||||||
| NFL Overrun | 13.3 | 41% | -12% | -1.8 | n/a | 2/20 | -1% | +964% | +4% | 11.2 |
| 60 Minutes | 4.0 | 30% | +208% | +2.7 | n/a | 1/15 | +21% | +321% | +14% | 2.0 |
| The Good Wife | 1.8 | 23% | +29% | +0.4 | +3.0 | 1/12 | -5% | +29% | +0% | 1.6 |
| The Mentalist | 1.8 | 24% | +13% | +0.2 | +0.4 | 1/12 | -14% | +16% | -10% | 2.1 |
| CBS: | +306% | +4% | ||||||||
| Golden Globes Arrivals | 1.6 | 30% | +23% | +60% | +19% | 1.7 | ||||
| Golden Globe Awards | 6.5 | 40% | +2% | +261% | +2% | 6.0 | ||||
| NBC: | +230% | -10% | ||||||||
| Bob's Burgers (R) | 0.8 | 52% | -95% | -11% | 0.9 | |||||
| American Dad! (R) | 1.1 | 57% | -94% | -15% | 1.4 | |||||
| The Simpsons | 2.2 | 58% | -52% | -2.4 | -14.0 | 8/10 | -8% | -53% | -8% | 2.2 |
| Bob's Burgers | 2.0 | 60% | -31% | -0.9 | -2.4 | 5/10 | -13% | -33% | -13% | 1.9 |
| Family Guy | 2.7 | 66% | -13% | -0.4 | -0.9 | 3/10 | -16% | -13% | -16% | 2.7 |
| American Dad! | 2.3 | 65% | -8% | -0.2 | -0.4 | 3/10 | -4% | -8% | -4% | 2.1 |
| Fox: | -77% | -11% | ||||||||
| Big4: | +16% | -9% | ||||||||
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.
(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.
(R) - Repeat.
Much more detail on these numbers at the New Daily Spotted Ratings page.
More Spotted Ratings in the Index.
5 comments:
Of the three-week January run of episodes for Revenge, this is the one that I thought would be the worst ratings-wise because of the Globes and its female-skew. The NFC game is a big-tent type of event so I am fully prepared to be wrong. But for Revenge to essentially hit its season-to-date average with a weak lead-in and against an Event is a damning-with-faint-praise positive.
Revenge did amazingly IMO. This is its most impressive result of the season in my opinion, tied maybe with premiere week only. Building like that from a ridiculous 0.9 and against a monster Globes and an inflated The Good Wife, not to mention Downtown Abbey is amazing.
It's good enough to make it look very good for a season 4. Kind of hoping it crumbles from a purely academic perspective - don't have an opinion on the show itself - because (and I know Spot feels similarly) I am intrigued by true tests of the syndication theory. Nikita's partial final season suggested an alternative model for serials - that defined endings are more valuable than the magic 88, because of online syndication and box sets - but that might be a function of the show's microscopic ratings. A show on a network bubble is a whole different matter. Revenge is a serial, and they don't syndicate well in the traditional sense but presumably would online...
Revenge does seem to get volatile ratings, of course, and when a bubble show does that, of course it'll get attention. :)
Part of the issue is that they got the Patriots in primetime, and they delivered a curb-stomp to the Colts. No one enjoys watching the Patriots rip anyone a new one.
That Almost Human repeat did shockingly well for a Saturday against such monstrous competition!
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