Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 9/10/14

WHAT MATTERS:

• I held off till finals on this post because the big four networks simulcast a 15-minute presidential address starting at 9:00 ET. Though the finals sorted out what the actual numbers are, this interruption may have still had some effect on viewing patterns.

• Fox brought back Hell's Kitchen (1.5/1.5) less than two months after the previous season ended, and the results were not promising; this was 25% below the 2.0 that started the spring 2014 season. Historically, two-hour Gordon Ramsay premieres usually grow in the second hour, so it may have done a bit better in the second hour without the presidential address.

• The address also reduced any help a Big Brother lead-in might have had for CBS' NFL-themed special Under the Lights (0.5). Either way, that's a rotten number, and it helped bring the penultimate Extant (0.8) down to a new low (and a tie with Taxi Brooklyn).

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
The Middle (R)	1.0	30%						+11%	-17%	1.2
The Goldbergs (R)	1.0	32%						+0%	-23%	1.3
Modern Family (R)	1.2	38%						+9%	+9%	1.7
Modern Family (R)	1.2	39%						+0%	+9%	1.6
Shark Tank (R)	1.0	35%						-9%	+82%	1.2
							ABC:	+0%	+10%
Big Brother Wed	2.4	44%	+4%	+0.1	n/a	1/13	+4%	+7%	+4%	2.8
Under the Lights	0.5	28%					n/a	-52%	-52%	0.7
Extant	0.8	22%	-20%	-0.2	-0.5	10/10	n/a	-20%	-33%	1.1
							CBS:	-14%	-19%
America's Got Talent (R)	1.2	22%						+14%	-4%	1.5
America's Got Talent Wed	1.8	22%	-10%	-0.2	+0.1	7/8	-18%	-10%	-16%	2.4
Taxi Brooklyn	0.8	20%	-11%	-0.1	-0.2	9/12	n/a	-11%	+0%	0.8
							NBC:	-4%	-10%
Hell's Kitchen	1.5	45%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	+11%	-32%	1.8
Hell's Kitchen	1.5	45%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	1/2	n/a	+11%	-39%	1.9
							Fox:	+11%	-35%
Penn and Teller: Fool Us	0.5	37%	-29%	-0.2	n/a	2/7	n/a	-23%	+67%	0.6
The 100 (R)	0.2	43%						-20%	-43%	0.3
							CW:	-22%	+8%
							Big5:	-3%	-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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