- The Walking Dead may be over, but the ABC Sunday bleeding isn't. Resurrection (2.2) took another multiple-tick drop, going behind its Once Upon a Time (2.4) lead-in for the first time. (But a two-tenth surge in finals for Once makes it a big positive; this 2.4 is better than anything it scored in the last couple months of last season.) If this is not the end of it, things might start to get interesting. I've chalked much of this up to the lead-in, but I think it's becoming noteworthy that Revenge (1.3) has also fallen each week since Resurrection's debut, and this time that meant a tie for a season low.
- CBS got a major week-to-week boost thanks to the Academy of Country Music Awards (3.3), though the show was significantly down from last year's 4.3. (Low-to-mid-3's seem to be the norm across the last decade or so, though, so it looks like last year was the fluke.)
- NBC's three newbies all downticked again: American Dream Builders (0.7 leading into a tryout after The Voice tonight), Believe (1.0) and Crisis (1.0). Fox's Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (1.5) was steady for the first time, and its Family Guy (2.3) lead-in was up.
- UPDATE: The return of Game of Thrones easily scored a series high with 6.6 million viewers, about 20% above the previous high. If the show has the same skew as last year, that'll translate to about a 3.5 rating in 18-49, so this could very well edge the ACM Awards as the night's top program. Lead-out comedies Silicon Valley (2 million total viewers) and Veep (955,000) dropped big from there.
- UPDATE #2: Final 18-49 ratings: Game of Thrones (3.61), Silicon Valley (1.08) and Veep (0.51). GoT was 51% above last year's premiere.
- The finale of Shameless (0.85) was 7% behind last year's finale.
- It's pretty tough to really get at what AMC's "standards" are. We could say the premiere of Turn (0.53) got literally one-fifteenth the rating of last week's occupant The Walking Dead, or we could say this number stacks up in the same ballpark with recent seasons of Hell on Wheels and The Killing.
FULL TABLE:
| Info | Show | Timeslot | True | |||||||
| A18-49 | Skew | Last | LeLa | Rank | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | |||
| America's Funniest Home Videos | 1.4 | 28% | +8% | +0.1 | n/a | 5/17 | n/a | +12% | +22% | 1.3 |
| Once Upon a Time | 2.4 | 42% | +14% | +0.3 | +0.1 | 3/16 | n/a | +12% | +300% | 2.4 |
| Resurrection | 2.2 | 35% | -8% | -0.2 | +0.3 | 5/5 | n/a | -6% | +300% | 2.1 |
| Revenge | 1.3 | 32% | -7% | -0.1 | -0.2 | 16/18 | n/a | -7% | +136% | 1.3 |
| ABC: | +2% | +156% | ||||||||
| 60 Minutes | 1.3 | 16% | -54% | -1.5 | n/a | 19/22 | -7% | -50% | -4% | 1.2 |
| Academy of Country Music Awards | 3.3 | 30% | -23% | +90% | -24% | 3.3 | ||||
| CBS: | +44% | -22% | ||||||||
| Ann Curry Reports: Our Year of Extremes | 0.6 | 18% | n/a | +0% | -37% | 0.6 | ||||
| American Dream Builders | 0.7 | 30% | -13% | -0.1 | +0.0 | 3/3 | n/a | -7% | -53% | 0.9 |
| Believe | 1.0 | 30% | -9% | -0.1 | -0.1 | 5/5 | n/a | -9% | +25% | 1.2 |
| Crisis | 1.0 | 28% | -9% | -0.1 | -0.1 | 4/4 | n/a | -5% | -29% | 1.2 |
| NBC: | -6% | -38% | ||||||||
| Bob's Burgers | 0.9 | 50% | -10% | -0.1 | n/a | 15/16 | n/a | -10% | +29% | 0.8 |
| American Dad! | 1.2 | 57% | -14% | -0.2 | -0.1 | 15/15 | n/a | -14% | +50% | 1.3 |
| The Simpsons | 1.9 | 56% | +0% | +0.0 | -0.2 | 9/17 | n/a | +0% | +36% | 1.8 |
| Family Guy | 2.3 | 61% | +10% | +0.2 | +0.0 | 8/16 | n/a | +10% | +64% | 2.2 |
| Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey | 1.5 | 48% | +0% | +0.0 | +0.2 | 4/5 | n/a | +0% | -9% | 1.5 |
| Fox: | -1% | +22% | ||||||||
| Big4: | +11% | +1% | ||||||||
| Game of Thrones | 3.61 | 69% | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | +51% | ||||
| Silicon Valley | 1.08 | 69% | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | n/a | ||||
| Shameless | 0.85 | 56% | +2% | +0.02 | 5/12 | -7% | ||||
| Turn | 0.53 | 32% | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | n/a | ||||
| Veep | 0.51 | 68% | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | -14% | ||||
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.
