Spotted Ratings, Monday 11/24/14

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: After finals adjustments, State of Affairs ended up at a 1.5, down 32% from the premiere. This was a bad situation, but that's still a pretty poor showing. It needs to go up next week.
• Other particularly ugly points included The Voice (2.6) and 2 Broke Girls (1.6), each down a half point week-to-week, and a new low for Sleepy Hollow (1.4). But there was a significant winner in Dancing with the Stars (2.5), whose performance finale was up big year-to-year and almost tied The Voice! Worth reiterating: this was an extremely irregular night.

• With a double-dose of Monday Night Football (pre-emptions on both NBC and CBS) plus interruptions for Ferguson coverage in both the 9:00 and 10:00 hour, almost all of last night's ratings are subject to significant change, and there's arguably not a ton of value in them even after finals due to the disruptions. The only things that seem fairly certain/notable at the moment: 
• NBC's State of Affairs (1.7) took at least a somewhat sizable week two drop, though getting a 15-minute interruption after seven minutes of your second episode is a pretty rough break.
• And ABC, which had (relatively) fewer disruptions, is currently up a bit more with the performance finale of Dancing with the Stars (2.4, even year-to-year) and Castle (2.0). Much more to come after finals!

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Dancing with the Stars	2.5	21%	+9%	+0.2	n/a	1/13	+14%	+9%	+12%	2.5
Castle	1.7	23%	-6%	-0.1	+0.2	5/8	-19%	-6%	-21%	1.6
							ABC:	+5%	+2%
2 Broke Girls	1.6	30%	-24%	-0.5	n/a	5/5	-41%	-24%	-45%	1.6
The Big Bang Theory (R)	1.5	28%						+0%	-44%	1.5
Scorpion	1.9	26%	-5%	-0.1	+0.0	10/10	n/a	-5%	-21%	1.9
NCIS: Los Angeles	1.5	22%	-12%	-0.2	-0.1	7/9	-38%	-12%	+36%	1.6
							CBS:	-10%	-21%
The Voice Mon	2.6	34%	-16%	-0.5	n/a	10/10	-24%	-16%	-23%	2.5
State of Affairs	1.5	33%	-32%	-0.7	-0.5	2/2	n/a	-32%	-51%	1.4
							NBC:	-20%	-32%
Gotham	2.3	48%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	6/10	n/a	+0%	+21%	2.3
Sleepy Hollow	1.4	42%	-13%	-0.2	+0.0	10/10	-36%	-13%	-38%	1.4
							Fox:	-5%	-11%
The Originals	0.6	60%	-14%	-0.1	n/a	5/8	-45%	-14%	+50%	0.6
Jane the Virgin	0.4	53%	+0%	+0.0	-0.1	4/7	n/a	+0%	+33%	0.4
							CW:	-9%	+43%
							Big5:	-9%	-15%

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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