The True Top 25, Week Ending 4/27/14 (2013-14 Week 31)

The Big Bang Theory reclaimed its usual seat atop the True Top 25. Grey's Anatomy in a really tough timeslot narrowly edged post-Voice The Blacklist for the week's True top drama. The premiere of Bad Teacher made it four new shows this week, joining usual occupants Blacklist, Agents of SHIELD and The Millers.

Rank	Name	True	A18-49	ARank
1	The Big Bang Theory	5.48	4.5	1
2	Modern Family	3.56	3.5	2
3	The Voice Mon	3.22	3.0	3
4	The Voice Tue	3.15	2.8	4
5	Grey's Anatomy	2.64	2.3	8
6	The Blacklist	2.60	2.8	4
7	Survivor	2.56	2.3	8
8	2 Broke Girls	2.44	2.1	12
9	Dancing with the Stars	2.41	2.2	10
10	Two and a Half Men	2.40	2.5	6
11	Shark Tank	2.38	1.8	23
12	Once Upon a Time	2.31	2.2	10
13	The Middle	2.25	1.9	16
14	American Idol Wed	2.24	2.1	12
15	Agents of SHIELD	2.19	1.9	16
16	Family Guy	2.14	2.1	12
17	The Amazing Race	2.10	1.9	16
18	Mike and Molly	2.07	1.9	16
19	Hell's Kitchen	2.06	1.7	26
20	Last Man Standing	2.03	1.4	36
21	The Millers	2.02	2.4	7
22	The Big Bang Theory (R)	2.01	1.9	16
23	American Idol Thu	2.01	1.8	23
24	Bad Teacher	1.97	2.1	12
25	NASCAR	1.89	1.3	42

Missing the True Top 25 but in the A18-49 list: Resurrection (t-#16 in A18-49, #29 in True) and About a Boy (t-#16 in A18-49, #42 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.