Spotted Ratings, Sunday 7/13/14

WHAT MATTERS:

• 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.

More Spotted Ratings in the Index.