Spotted Ratings, Sunday 1/5/14

WHAT MATTERS:

• The first two Sundays of NFL playoff season are always rather unique because there's a huge audience watching late-afternoon TV leading into primetime, yet no actual football during primetime. This influx of overall viewership often helps some shows to overachieve even if they don't have the direct NFL lead-in. Last year, it was the huge return of The Biggest Loser, and this time NBC had another pretty nice number in the last two hours: a retrospective of Jimmy Fallon's Late Night years.

• ABC also had a good night with a special The Bachelor at 8/7c leading into the highest-rated Revenge in three months. So far, the plan to air three Revenges in January looks good... but the next two will go up against the Golden Globes and the NFC Championship. CBS' The Good Wife and The Mentalist were more average, though The Mentalist's finals uptick helped.

• Fox had very high Animation Domination numbers due to the NFL lead-in, which averaged a 16.1 rating for the game and hung an unbelievable 17.1/17.6 in its last two segments. This vaulted The Simpsons to even exceed its post-NFL playoff result from last season. (The NFL post-game show averaged a 10.0 demo, and that's what is used as the lead-in for The Simpsons in the True calculation.)

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
America's Funniest Home Videos	1.6	30%	+14%	+0.2	n/a	1/11	n/a	+45%	+78%	1.7
The Bachelor Special	1.8	36%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	+64%	-42%	1.6
Revenge	1.8	34%	+20%	+0.3	-0.1	3/11	-25%	+64%	-23%	1.7
Betrayal	0.7	26%	-13%	-0.1	+0.3	10/11	n/a	-36%	-26%	0.8
							ABC:	+34%	-19%
60 Minutes	1.3	21%	-38%	-0.8	n/a	13/14	-7%	-70%	-10%	1.4
Elementary (R)	1.0	19%						-41%	-23%	0.9
The Good Wife	1.4	19%	-13%	-0.2	-1.1	6/11	-22%	+56%	-22%	1.5
The Mentalist	1.6	20%	-11%	-0.2	-0.7	3/11	-24%	+78%	-24%	1.7
							CBS:	-32%	-20%
Dateline Sun	1.3	28%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	-13%	-66%	-10%	1.2
Best of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon	1.9	42%					n/a	-80%	-36%	2.0
							NBC:	-76%	-37%
NFL Overrun	15.1	46%	+89%	+7.1	n/a	1/19	+13%	+89%	+27%	11.8
The Simpsons	4.6	60%	+31%	+1.1	+9.7	1/9	+10%	+109%	+10%	2.5
Bob's Burgers	2.9	58%	+21%	+0.5	+1.1	1/9	-6%	+71%	-6%	1.5
Family Guy	3.1	68%	+3%	+0.1	+0.5	1/9	-14%	+82%	-14%	2.8
American Dad!	2.5	63%	+4%	+0.1	+0.1	1/9	-11%	+178%	-11%	2.1
							Fox:	+92%	+15%
							Big4:	-13%	-5%

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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