Spotted Ratings, Thursday 8/7/14

WHAT MATTERS:

• There's much discussion about how screwed up the preliminary ratings are during the NFL preseason, but last night's results also prove the finals don't exactly sort things out. For example, it's not realistic that Elementary would suddenly hang a 1.2 after going no higher than 0.8 the whole summer. (CBS' 8:00 hour repeats are only slightly less ridiculous.) Clearly these numbers are heavily influenced by when the pre-empted stuff gets rescheduled, and often that means right after the high-rated game is over.

• The other networks were not nearly as lucky as CBS on the pre-emption front; every original on ABC, NBC and Fox was down a tick or two from last week.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
The Quest	0.6	35%	-14%	-0.1	n/a	2/2	n/a	-8%	-33%	0.8
Rookie Blue	0.8	22%	-20%	-0.2	-0.1	6/7	-11%	-16%	+14%	1.2
NY Med	0.9	23%	-10%	-0.1	-0.2	3/7	n/a	-10%	-5%	1.2
							ABC:	-12%	-10%
The Big Bang Theory (R)	2.1	32%						+31%	+31%	2.6
Mom (R)	1.8	34%						+50%	+29%	2.2
Big Brother Thu	2.3	45%	+5%	+0.1	+0.6	1/7	-4%	+7%	-2%	2.9
Elementary (R)	1.2	32%						+85%	+60%	1.4
							CBS:	+30%	+18%
Hollywood Game Night (R)	0.8	29%						-20%	+7%	1.0
Welcome to Sweden	0.5	29%	-29%	-0.2	-0.2	5/5	n/a	-29%	-38%	0.7
Working the Engels	0.5	34%	-17%	-0.1	-0.2	5/5	n/a	-17%	-44%	0.8
Last Comic Standing	1.0	37%	-9%	-0.1	-0.1	11/13	n/a	-5%	-5%	1.4
							NBC:	-15%	-13%
Sleepy Hollow (R)	0.5	40%						+0%	+0%	0.7
Gang Related	0.6	38%	-14%	-0.1	+0.0	12/12	n/a	-14%	+20%	0.9
							Fox:	-8%	+10%
The Vampire Diaries (R)	0.3	54%						+200%	+20%	0.4
The Originals (R)	0.2	50%						+100%	-33%	0.3
							CW:	+150%	-9%
							Big5:	+5%	+3%

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.