- FINALS UPDATE: An uptick for The Bachelor (1.8) put it narrowly ahead of Celebrity Apprentice. Things got even uglier in the 10/9c hour as Castle (1.3) and State of Affairs (0.7) each adjusted down to a new low.
- Opposite a record-setting college football national championship game on ESPN, things got ugly for round two of The Bachelor (1.7) vs. Celebrity Apprentice (1.7). A half-point drop for The Bachelor is particularly alarming given its audience should be pretty much the opposite of the ESPN game skew-wise; after all, it premiered at a very good 2.7 vs. the big game last year.
- Leading out of these were Castle (1.4), which tied the series low from its last episode after The Great Christmas Light Fight, and another new depth for State of Affairs (0.8). (It's hard to imagine that Light Fight on December 8 and last night's The Bachelor actually had the same rating!)
- Like during the holidays, Mike and Molly (2.1) was the broadcast night's most impressive show amid a sea of CBS repeats. Repeats of note included an Empire pilot encore (0.8) and the first two episodes of Jane the Virgin (0.3/0.3), on the heels of its big night at the Golden Globes.
- UPDATE: The first college football national championship game averaged 33.395 million viewers, about 30% above last year and easily a new record for cable TV. It was slightly behind the CFB record, 35.6 million in 2006 (though that was on ABC).
FULL TABLE:
| Info | Show | Timeslot | True | |||||||
| A18-49 | Skew | Last | LeLa | Rank | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | |||
| The Bachelor | 1.8 | 35% | -18% | -0.4 | n/a | 2/2 | -22% | -15% | -20% | 1.8 |
| Castle | 1.3 | 24% | -7% | -0.1 | +0.1 | 11/11 | -32% | -47% | -32% | 1.5 |
| ABC: | -26% | -23% | ||||||||
| The Big Bang Theory (R) | 1.9 | 24% | -21% | -37% | 1.9 | |||||
| Mike and Molly | 2.1 | 29% | -5% | -0.1 | -0.5 | 2/6 | -13% | -5% | -22% | 2.1 |
| NCIS: Los Angeles (R) | 1.2 | 23% | -51% | -48% | 1.2 | |||||
| Scorpion (R) | 1.1 | 26% | -44% | -4% | 1.4 | |||||
| CBS: | -36% | -32% | ||||||||
| Celebrity Apprentice | 1.7 | 37% | -15% | -0.3 | n/a | 3/3 | n/a | -15% | -8% | 1.7 |
| State of Affairs | 0.7 | 25% | -30% | -0.3 | -0.3 | 8/8 | n/a | -30% | -73% | 1.0 |
| NBC: | -18% | -34% | ||||||||
| Empire (R) | 0.8 | 37% | -69% | -60% | 1.0 | |||||
| Sleepy Hollow (R) | 0.5 | 35% | -69% | -77% | 0.8 | |||||
| Fox: | -68% | -69% | ||||||||
| Jane the Virgin (R) | 0.3 | 36% | +20% | -33% | 0.4 | |||||
| Jane the Virgin (R) | 0.3 | 34% | +0% | +20% | 0.4 | |||||
| CW: | +20% | -14% | ||||||||
| Big5: | -36% | -39% | ||||||||
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.
