- The first broadcast scripted episodes of the 2014-15 season didn't go well. There's really no sugarcoating a 41% year-to-year drop for the premiere of New Girl (1.7), and The Mindy Project's -32% (1.3) wasn't much better. But these year-to-year trends were commonplace late last season, and Utopia was the lead-in, so it actually could've been even worse. New Girl saw a big bounce from its episodes late last season, including a 1.2 finale. Now these shows will look to hold up better vs. full competition than they did last year; the nicest thing I can say is there are no other comedies in the slot till mid-October.
- As for Utopia (1.0), it's still very weak, but it was actually up a tenth in its second Tuesday episode, probably putting the immediate death-watch on hold. And it faced quite the unscripted glut, with Big Brother (2.3) back in the hour alongside a Dancing with the Stars results show (2.1). But the biggest unscripted winner of the night was America's Got Talent (2.5), whose performance finale zoomed past its recent deliveries.
FULL TABLE:
| Info | Show | Timeslot | True | |||||||
| A18-49 | Skew | Last | LeLa | Rank | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | |||
| Dancing with the Stars | 2.2 | 22% | -8% | -0.2 | n/a | 2/2 | -29% | +120% | +120% | 2.6 |
| Agents of SHIELD (R) | 0.7 | 28% | -36% | -48% | 0.7 | |||||
| 20/20 (S) | 0.6 | 22% | -33% | -0.3 | -0.4 | 18/18 | n/a | -40% | -56% | 0.9 |
| ABC: | +13% | -5% | ||||||||
| Big Brother Wed | 2.3 | 42% | +0% | +0.0 | n/a | 1/13 | -8% | +0% | +64% | 2.7 |
| NCIS: Los Angeles (R) | 0.9 | 21% | +64% | -22% | 1.2 | |||||
| Person of Interest (R) | 0.8 | 22% | +33% | -20% | 1.1 | |||||
| CBS: | +16% | +13% | ||||||||
| America's Got Talent (R) | 1.2 | 29% | +20% | +9% | 1.5 | |||||
| America's Got Talent Tue | 2.5 | 28% | +32% | +0.6 | +0.2 | 6/15 | +4% | +32% | +2% | 3.0 |
| NBC: | +29% | +3% | ||||||||
| Utopia Tue | 1.0 | 52% | +11% | +0.1 | n/a | 2/3 | n/a | +5% | -58% | 1.2 |
| New Girl | 1.7 | 71% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | -41% | +113% | -41% | 2.2 |
| The Mindy Project | 1.3 | 62% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | -32% | +44% | -32% | 1.6 |
| Fox: | +39% | -48% | ||||||||
| Arrow (R) | 0.3 | 42% | +50% | -65% | 0.4 | |||||
| Supernatural (R) | 0.3 | 46% | +50% | -33% | 0.4 | |||||
| CW: | +50% | -54% | ||||||||
| Big5: | +24% | -18% | ||||||||
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.
