- FINALS UPDATE: Hours after a Nielsen announcement about a "technical error" affecting broadcast final ratings for months, ABC's three series did not adjust up. This is likely not a coincidence, and there's a good chance that many of ABC's sizable adjustments in recent weeks will be wiped out or reduced after the revisions are released on October 17. (Though it's not clear whether we'll actually see these new numbers.) However, Bones (1.6) and The Vampire Diaries (0.8) did go up by a tenth.
- Week three of TGIT remained the definitive entertainment lineup, but it came down a little more. Grey's Anatomy (2.4) and Scandal (3.0) were each down just over 10% more (though likely just less than 10% after finals). The really good news was that How to Get Away with Murder (3.1) actually took a smaller drop, and at least in preliminaries was ABC's outright biggest show of the night.
- Among last week's soft premieres, the only one that kept things kinda interesting in week two was NBC's Bad Judge (1.3). It was even week-to-week even as The Biggest Loser (1.2) declined. That's not half bad, really. However, its lead-out A to Z (1.0) was down a typical amount, and Gracepoint (0.9) became the season's third sub-1.0 Fox newbie (with Mulaney likely to follow it soon).
- Bones (1.5) and Parenthood (1.3) continued to hang in rather respectably, but the CW had a week two decline from The Vampire Diaries (0.7).
FULL TABLE:
| Info | Show | Timeslot | True | |||||||
| A18-49 | Skew | Last | LeLa | Rank | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | |||
| Grey's Anatomy | 2.4 | 36% | -11% | -0.3 | n/a | 3/3 | -14% | -11% | +41% | 2.5 |
| Scandal | 3.0 | 40% | -12% | -0.4 | -0.3 | 3/3 | -3% | -12% | +5% | 3.0 |
| How To Get Away With Murder | 3.1 | 36% | -6% | -0.2 | -0.4 | 3/3 | n/a | -6% | +0% | 3.2 |
| ABC: | -10% | +11% | ||||||||
| Thursday Night Football Kickoff | 2.0 | 35% | -20% | -0.5 | n/a | 5/5 | n/a | -23% | -61% | 2.2 |
| Thursday Night Football | 5.4 | 43% | -8% | -0.5 | -0.5 | 4/5 | n/a | -10% | +135% | 5.9 |
| CBS: | -11% | +75% | ||||||||
| The Biggest Loser | 1.2 | 33% | -8% | -0.1 | n/a | 5/5 | n/a | -11% | +20% | 1.4 |
| Bad Judge | 1.3 | 32% | +0% | +0.0 | -0.1 | 1/2 | n/a | +0% | +30% | 1.6 |
| A to Z | 1.0 | 35% | -17% | -0.2 | +0.0 | 2/2 | n/a | -17% | -17% | 1.4 |
| Parenthood | 1.3 | 39% | +0% | +0.0 | -0.2 | 2/3 | +8% | -4% | +8% | 1.8 |
| NBC: | -8% | +11% | ||||||||
| Bones | 1.6 | 32% | +7% | +0.1 | n/a | 1/3 | -24% | +3% | -20% | 1.8 |
| Gracepoint | 0.9 | 30% | -25% | -0.3 | +0.1 | 2/2 | n/a | -25% | -69% | 1.2 |
| Fox: | -9% | -49% | ||||||||
| The Vampire Diaries | 0.8 | 61% | -11% | -0.1 | n/a | 2/2 | -20% | -11% | -24% | 0.8 |
| Reign | 0.4 | 47% | +0% | +0.0 | -0.1 | 1/2 | n/a | +14% | -27% | 0.5 |
| CW: | -4% | -25% | ||||||||
| Big5: | -9% | +11% | ||||||||
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.
