- FINALS UPDATE: ABC's great night got much greater after finals as Once Upon a Time (3.7) and Resurrection (2.5) each picked up three tenths. For all my horrible Question lines last week, Resurrection's big bounce-back is the one that most surprises me. A big part of it was my underestimating the lead-in (which I figured would do 2.7 or 2.8), but it's still a pretty good show of strength even after accounting for that. Revenge (1.5) also inched upward.
- For a night without a series premiere, the opening Sunday sure was full of surprises. The biggest by a wide margin was Fox's enormous one-hour crossover between The Simpsons and Family Guy (4.5), which would be Family Guy's biggest rating since January... of 2011. It was 73% above last season's premiere. There was also a great deal of heat in the halo at 8:00, with The Simpsons (3.9) about a third above its last premiere and Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2.6) up by double digits on last year's Bob's Burgers premiere.
- It's pretty crazy that a huge bounce for the Frozen crossover on Once Upon a Time (3.4) is somehow playing second fiddle on this night. But it was still an incredible rating, zooming way past any rating from last season (including 31% above the 2013 premiere) to OUAT's biggest number since fall 2012. That helped Resurrection (2.2) skew a little younger and thus return pretty respectably, inching past last season's finale, but the heat was gone by Revenge (1.4) time. Revenge tied the spring finale but was down a whooping 39% from last season's start. ABC was +8% vs. last year's premiere Sunday.
- CBS was left well behind as Madam Secretary (1.4) dropped 30% from its post-football premiere and CSI (1.4) had a slow start in its new Sunday slot. Madam is certainly not off the map yet, but it doesn't really look like something that would justify The Amazing Race's move to Friday. CBS was -19% vs. last year's premiere Sunday (also without an NFL overrun).
- Cowboys-fueled football (8.7) was up nearly a point week-to-week.
FULL TABLE:
| Info | Show | Timeslot | True | |||||||
| A18-49 | Skew | Last | LeLa | Rank | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | |||
| Once Upon a Time (R) | 1.6 | 37% | +78% | +14% | 2.1 | |||||
| Once Upon a Time | 3.7 | 46% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | +42% | +393% | +40% | 3.8 |
| Resurrection | 2.5 | 38% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | -34% | +257% | +6% | 2.5 |
| Revenge | 1.5 | 33% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | -35% | +150% | +3% | 1.7 |
| ABC: | +215% | +18% | ||||||||
| 60 Minutes | 1.1 | 14% | -69% | -2.4 | n/a | 2/2 | -21% | -89% | -19% | 1.7 |
| Madam Secretary | 1.4 | 14% | -30% | -0.6 | -2.4 | 2/2 | n/a | -61% | -30% | 1.8 |
| The Good Wife | 1.3 | 15% | -7% | -0.1 | -0.6 | 2/2 | -13% | -35% | -13% | 1.7 |
| CSI | 1.3 | 18% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | -35% | -10% | -19% | 1.7 |
| CBS: | -71% | -21% | ||||||||
| Football Night in America p2 | 1.2 | 40% | +50% | +0.4 | n/a | 3/4 | -40% | +50% | -40% | 1.8 |
| Football Night in America p3 | 4.6 | 45% | +24% | +0.9 | +0.4 | 3/4 | +12% | +21% | +10% | 5.0 |
| Sunday Night Football | 8.7 | 49% | +12% | +0.9 | +0.9 | 3/5 | +14% | +10% | +14% | 8.7 |
| NBC: | -2% | -2% | ||||||||
| NFL Overrun | 9.0 | 44% | +0% | +0.0 | n/a | 2/4 | -3% | +1186% | -8% | 9.3 |
| The OT | 6.3 | 49% | +29% | +1.4 | -1.3 | 1/2 | +34% | +600% | +34% | 4.8 |
| The Simpsons | 3.9 | 58% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | +34% | +200% | +34% | 2.4 |
| Brooklyn Nine-Nine | 2.6 | 60% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | +0% | +100% | +18% | 2.2 |
| Family Guy | 4.5 | 68% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | +73% | +210% | +91% | 4.1 |
| Fox: | +334% | +27% | ||||||||
| Big4: | +31% | +7% | ||||||||
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.
