| Rank | Name | True | A18-49 | ARank |
| 1 | The Voice Mon | 4.25 | 4.1 | 1 |
| 2 | The Voice Tue | 4.00 | 3.6 | 2 |
| 3 | Scandal | 3.18 | 2.9 | 3 |
| 4 | How I Met Your Mother | 3.12 | 2.9 | 3 |
| 5 | Survivor | 2.92 | 2.5 | 7 |
| 6 | Grey's Anatomy | 2.90 | 2.4 | 9 |
| 7 | Dancing with the Stars | 2.81 | 2.6 | 6 |
| 8 | NCAA Basketball (Sat) | 2.77 | 2.2 | 12 |
| 9 | NCIS | 2.75 | 2.4 | 9 |
| 10 | Shark Tank | 2.71 | 2.1 | 17 |
| 11 | American Idol Wed | 2.50 | 2.2 | 12 |
| 12 | The Blacklist | 2.48 | 2.7 | 5 |
| 13 | American Idol Thu | 2.36 | 2.0 | 20 |
| 14 | Criminal Minds | 2.29 | 2.2 | 12 |
| 15 | Once Upon a Time | 2.27 | 2.1 | 17 |
| 16 | Family Guy | 2.26 | 2.2 | 12 |
| 17 | 20/20 | 2.26 | 1.8 | 25 |
| 18 | Resurrection | 2.25 | 2.5 | 7 |
| 19 | NCIS: Los Angeles | 2.22 | 2.3 | 11 |
| 20 | Hell's Kitchen | 2.20 | 1.8 | 25 |
| 21 | Modern Family (R) | 2.18 | 1.8 | 25 |
| 22 | CSI | 2.15 | 2.0 | 20 |
| 23 | 2 Broke Girls | 2.13 | 2.2 | 12 |
| 24 | Chicago Fire | 2.06 | 1.9 | 23 |
| 25 | Mom | 2.01 | 1.8 | 25 |
Missing the True Top 25 but in the A18-49 list: The Simpsons (t-#23 in A18-49, #26 in True), Mike and Molly (t-#25 in A18-49, #28 in True), 60 Minutes (t-#20 in A18-49, #32 in True), About a Boy (t-#17 in A18-49, #38 in True), The Amazing Race (t-#25 in A18-49, #40 in True) and Growing Up Fisher (t-#25 in A18-49, #43 in True).
For more on the True Top 25, click to expand.
I created the True
number so I could have an
objective way of comparing shows across vastly
different situations. One of the most fun
comparisons to be made is among the biggest
shows on TV. What's really the strongest show in a vacuum? Hence the weekly feature the True Top 25.
This will compare shows while accounting for
everything so we can see who Truly comes
out on top. I include both the A18-49 and the
weekly ranking in A18-49 so you can see the
changes within the rankings that True Strength
makes.
The A18-49 rankings aren't based on Nielsen's "official" broadcast top 25. They're derived from my own spreadsheet just using the big-five networks, so none of the big players on Univision are included. I've also weeded out some weird programming like NFL overruns and sports pre-game shows. Most of that stuff airs largely out of primetime or is strangely split apart, so I don't want to muddle the list with that.
As mentioned on the sports SpotVault pages, True Strengths for sporting events are based on the primetime portion only. Perhaps in future editions I'll try to get the primetime portion only A18-49 into the A18-49 rankings so it'll be a totally fair comparison.
The A18-49 rankings aren't based on Nielsen's "official" broadcast top 25. They're derived from my own spreadsheet just using the big-five networks, so none of the big players on Univision are included. I've also weeded out some weird programming like NFL overruns and sports pre-game shows. Most of that stuff airs largely out of primetime or is strangely split apart, so I don't want to muddle the list with that.
As mentioned on the sports SpotVault pages, True Strengths for sporting events are based on the primetime portion only. Perhaps in future editions I'll try to get the primetime portion only A18-49 into the A18-49 rankings so it'll be a totally fair comparison.
6 comments:
Amazing that Once Upon a Time out trued Ressurection. There must have been massive viewing levels in that hour
4 news Magazines in a single night equaling 5 hours of programming. Plus a repeat of a Marvel documentary. No wonder Nightline Prime is flopping, I bet a lot of people who would watch it are watching Dateline before switching to 20/20 or 48 Hours
My guess is that Resurrection gets dinged a little bit by having Once Upon a Time as its lead-in. OUAT had to the heavy lifting out of a weak AFV lead-in that's not very compatible (i.e. older-skewing), while Resurrection already had a solid base.
Scandal finally got a turn as the Truly biggest scripted show for a week. More impressive, though, is Dancing with the Stars' True rank. The show's premiere was only a few ticks off compared against the Fall 2013 and Spring 2013 cycles.
A significant part of it is what Chris said, but the viewing estimate was also quite high this week. A lot of stuff had very low shares (Cosmos was a 1.7/4, Res a 2.5/6), bumping up the estimate. It may be a bit exaggerated beyond what the "true" viewing was.
Yes, in ideal world. But what if veteran, namely Hart of Dixie is on 0.4 A18-49 (and if affiliate are interesting in W18-34, at 0.54 W18-34)? The best they can do renew it for short final season to get some quick bucks from Netflix.
I mean, there must be some threshold of weekly average ratings affiliates are willing to swallow. And that must be above those HoD numbers. And each year CW was/is forced to renew one or more such a shows, because they want to limit fall premieres to 3.
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