- FINALS UPDATE: The Backstrom comeback got a little less exciting with a downward adjustment to 1.2.
- Reasonable minds could disagree about what to make of The Blacklist's opening 2.4 on Thursday. But it's hard not to see a nearly one-third drop to 1.7 in week two as a severe disappointment, and one that suggests the show got more Super Bowl help than it might have seemed at the time. Dropping even more was Allegiance (0.7), which went completely off the map in just its second week. It's now on immediate death watch. In the context of Allegiance's 1.1 premiere with a big lead-in last week, The Slap filling out the lineup at an identical 1.1 at 8/7c doesn't seem that bad, really. But it's not gonna serve as any real consolation for what happened in the last two hours.
- CBS squeezed in one last 8/7c repeat of The Big Bang Theory (2.1) in the week before The Odd Couple's premiere. With more competition than in January, an original Mom (2.1) did not fare as well as in previous post-repeat showings, and the rest of the originals were also down a touch.
- On this night, TGIT's steadiness with Grey's Anatomy (2.3), Scandal (3.1) and How to Get Away with Murder (2.7) looked pretty awesome by comparison.
- And it looks like some of those lost Blacklist viewers may have funneled back into Backstrom (1.3), which had a surprisingly large week four rebound.
FULL TABLE:
| Info | Show | Timeslot | True | |||||||
| A18-49 | Skew | Last | LeLa | Rank | y2y | TLa | Ty2y | |||
| Grey's Anatomy | 2.3 | 37% | +0% | +0.0 | n/a | 10/11 | n/a | +0% | +188% | 2.5 |
| Scandal | 3.1 | 42% | -3% | -0.1 | +0.0 | 6/12 | n/a | -2% | +226% | 3.1 |
| How To Get Away With Murder | 2.7 | 41% | +0% | +0.0 | -0.1 | 10/12 | n/a | +0% | +286% | 2.6 |
| ABC: | -1% | +231% | ||||||||
| The Big Bang Theory (R) | 2.1 | 23% | -54% | -25% | 2.2 | |||||
| Mom | 2.1 | 26% | -25% | -0.7 | -2.5 | 12/14 | n/a | -25% | +17% | 2.2 |
| Two and a Half Men | 2.1 | 29% | -9% | -0.2 | -0.7 | 8/14 | n/a | -9% | +75% | 2.1 |
| The Big Bang Theory (R) | 1.7 | 28% | -15% | +31% | 1.7 | |||||
| Elementary | 1.4 | 22% | -7% | -0.1 | -0.3 | 4/14 | n/a | -3% | +17% | 1.6 |
| CBS: | -26% | +14% | ||||||||
| The Slap | 1.1 | 27% | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1/1 | n/a | +5% | -78% | 1.3 |
| The Blacklist | 1.7 | 26% | -29% | -0.7 | +0.1 | 10/10 | n/a | -28% | -74% | 1.9 |
| Allegiance | 0.7 | 24% | -36% | -0.4 | -0.7 | 2/2 | n/a | -36% | -89% | 1.0 |
| NBC: | -22% | -80% | ||||||||
| American Idol Thu | 2.3 | 30% | -4% | -0.1 | n/a | 5/6 | -23% | -4% | -25% | 2.5 |
| Backstrom | 1.2 | 35% | +20% | +0.2 | -0.1 | 3/4 | n/a | +20% | +9% | 1.2 |
| Fox: | +3% | -16% | ||||||||
| The Vampire Diaries | 0.7 | 58% | +0% | +0.0 | n/a | 10/14 | n/a | -7% | +133% | 0.8 |
| Reign | 0.4 | 49% | +0% | +0.0 | +0.0 | 4/14 | n/a | +14% | +14% | 0.5 |
| CW: | +0% | +69% | ||||||||
| Big5: | -11% | -26% | ||||||||
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.
