- ABC Sunday was on the upswing, thanks mostly to a huge lead-in from the World Cup Final in the late afternoon. This effect was evident in the huge 0.6 spike week-to-week from America's Funniest Home Videos at 7:00, and it got smaller as the night wore on with Wipeout (up 0.3, but still hitting its highest rating in the last two summers) and Rising Star (up 0.1).
- CBS got another very good Big Brother result, up 0.3 week-to-week and slightly up vs. the same week last year. The Unforgettable/Reckless switch put two tenths into Unforgettable and took one from Reckless, a trade-off that CBS will happily take.
- On cable:
- FX dove into a crowded Sunday fray that it's generally avoided in recent years, and it had a good start with new vampire drama The Strain (1.2). This tied TNT's The Last Ship as the biggest scripted premiere on cable this summer and was a fair bit stronger than recent FX premieres like The Bridge (0.9), Fargo (0.8) and Tyrant (0.6).
- Elsewhere, The Last Ship (1.0) stayed in the ones for a fourth straight week. And Lifetime's Devious Maids (0.8) finished out a largely rough sophomore season with a new season high; it may have helped its renewal case in the last couple weeks.
FULL TABLE:
| Info | Show | Timeslot | True | |||||||
| A18-49 | Skew | Last | LeLa | Rank | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | |||
| America's Funniest Home Videos (R) | 1.5 | 30% | +67% | +67% | 1.9 | |||||
| Wipeout | 1.4 | 37% | +27% | +0.3 | +0.6 | 1/4 | +40% | +27% | +22% | 1.7 |
| Rising Star | 1.3 | 35% | +8% | +0.1 | +0.3 | 2/4 | n/a | +0% | +18% | 1.6 |
| Castle (R) | 0.8 | 29% | -33% | +23% | 1.1 | |||||
| ABC: | +10% | +30% | ||||||||
| 60 Minutes (R) | 1.0 | 16% | +5% | +33% | 1.3 | |||||
| Big Brother Sun | 2.2 | 42% | +16% | +0.3 | +0.0 | 1/3 | +5% | +16% | +26% | 2.8 |
| Unforgettable | 0.9 | 19% | +29% | +0.2 | +1.6 | 1/3 | n/a | +50% | -33% | 1.3 |
| Reckless | 0.5 | 16% | -17% | -0.1 | -1.0 | 3/3 | n/a | -33% | -23% | 0.7 |
| CBS: | +10% | +2% | ||||||||
| American Ninja Warrior (R) | 0.6 | 33% | -4% | -33% | 0.7 | |||||
| Law and Order: SVU (R) | 0.6 | 34% | -20% | -8% | 0.9 | |||||
| Law and Order: SVU (R) | 0.8 | 34% | +23% | +60% | 1.2 | |||||
| NBC: | -2% | -23% | ||||||||
| Brain Games | 0.5 | 43% | n/a | -9% | -44% | 0.6 | ||||
| The Simpsons (R) | 0.8 | 49% | +0% | -33% | 1.1 | |||||
| The Simpsons (R) | 1.0 | 53% | -9% | +0% | 1.4 | |||||
| Family Guy (R) | 1.2 | 61% | +0% | -20% | 1.6 | |||||
| American Dad! (R) | 0.9 | 54% | -18% | -36% | 1.2 | |||||
| Fox: | -8% | -29% | ||||||||
| Big4: | +5% | -5% | ||||||||
| True Blood | 1.71 | 67% | -0% | -0.00 | 3/4 | -25% | ||||
| The Strain | 1.18 | 50% | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | n/a | ||||
| The Last Ship | 1.02 | 28% | +2% | +0.02 | 3/4 | n/a | ||||
| Devious Maids | 0.79 | 45% | +16% | +0.11 | 1/13 | -30% | ||||
| Falling Skies | 0.79 | 36% | -2% | -0.02 | 3/4 | -28% | ||||
| The Leftovers | 0.66 | 61% | -9% | -0.06 | 3/3 | n/a | ||||
| Witches of East End | 0.55 | 47% | -10% | -0.06 | 8/11 | n/a | ||||
| Ray Donovan | 0.37 | 39% | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | -21% | ||||
| Masters of Sex | 0.32 | 50% | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | -14% | ||||
| Halt and Catch Fire | 0.26 | n/a | +8% | +0.02 | 3/7 | n/a | ||||
| Salem | 0.18 | n/a | +38% | +0.05 | 6/13 | n/a | ||||
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.
