Spotted Ratings, Thursday 7/10/14

WHAT MATTERS:

• NBC's streak of 1.0+ scripted premieres finally came to an end with the premieres of Swedish import comedy Welcome to Sweden (0.9) and Canadian co-production Working the Engels (0.7). The shows roughly matched the late-season Undateable level and were well behind its surprising 1.3 premiere. I dunno if this will make NBC look a bit more favorably at Undateable, which also skewed a good bit younger than these shows, but Sweden (already renewed abroad) probably shouldn't be totally counted out just yet.

• Most shows were on the rebound from the low-viewed beginning to the 4th of July weekend. The most notable changes: Hell's Kitchen growth to 1.5 was a bit underwhelming; this was still below most points from the rest of the season. But Big Brother's half-point surge to 2.1 capped off a reasonably encouraging week for the show; the Wednesday 1.9 was down just a tenth year-to-year, and this Thursday ep was flat with 52 weeks ago.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Black Box	0.7	24%	+17%	+0.1	n/a	7/10	n/a	+27%	-26%	1.1
Rookie Blue	0.9	22%	+13%	+0.1	+0.1	2/4	-10%	+20%	+13%	1.3
NY Med	0.9	21%	+29%	+0.2	+0.1	1/3	n/a	+20%	-10%	1.1
							ABC:	+22%	-9%
The Big Bang Theory (R)	1.7	28%						+13%	-15%	2.5
The Millers (R)	1.2	27%						+33%	-25%	1.7
Big Brother Thu	2.1	43%	+31%	+0.5	+0.3	2/3	+0%	+31%	+0%	2.9
Extant (R)	0.7	24%						+8%	-13%	0.9
							CBS:	+23%	-10%
Hollywood Game Night	0.9	30%	-10%	-0.1	n/a	16/18	-36%	+64%	+13%	1.4
Welcome to Sweden	0.9	33%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	+50%	-10%	1.3
Working the Engels	0.7	33%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	+0%	-42%	1.0
Last Comic Standing	1.0	38%	-9%	-0.1	+0.0	8/9	n/a	-5%	-26%	1.3
							NBC:	+20%	-17%
Hell's Kitchen	1.5	40%	+15%	+0.2	n/a	15/18	-29%	+11%	+43%	2.3
Gang Related	0.7	38%	+0%	+0.0	+0.2	7/8	n/a	+0%	-67%	0.9
							Fox:	+7%	-30%
The Vampire Diaries (R)	0.2	39%						+0%	+0%	0.3
The Originals (R)	0.2	39%						+33%	+0%	0.3
							CW:	+14%	+0%
							Big5:	+17%	-17%

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.

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