Spotted Ratings, Friday 3/13/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: CBS was indeed nicked due to basketball preemptions, with The Amazing Race (1.3) down two tenths and Hawaii Five-0 (1.2) and Blue Bloods (1.4) each down one. But this was still ultimately a good night for the network, as Race went up and the other shows held even. Cristela had another damaging finals downtick to 0.9.

• At least in the preliminaries, CBS was a huge winner on the first Friday after DST, with an insane spike from The Amazing Race (1.5) and upticks from Hawaii Five-0 (1.3) and Blue Bloods (1.5) as well. These shows overachieved even more drastically in 18-34 numbers, so it seems pretty likely that there will be some downward adjustment due to NCAA basketball preemptions. But it would take quite a downtick to spoil the Race's night.

• ABC's post-DST deliveries seemed a bit more realistic, as Last Man Standing (1.2) dropped a bit below its consistent January/February level (though it still avoided a season low). Shark Tank (1.8) was also below average, but Cristela (1.0) was flat.

• On Fox, World's Funniest Fails (0.8) was even for the last episode of its initial order, while Glee (0.7) inched up in the week before the two-hour finale.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Last Man Standing	1.2	22%	-14%	-0.2	n/a	12/17	n/a	-33%	+50%	1.5
Cristela	0.9	23%	-10%	-0.1	-0.2	13/16	n/a	-55%	+13%	1.2
Shark Tank	1.8	32%	-5%	-0.1	n/a	13/21	-10%	+80%	-10%	2.1
20/20	1.1	29%	-15%	-0.2	+0.5	20/24	-42%	+38%	-42%	1.4
							ABC:	+7%	-16%
The Amazing Race	1.3	26%	+8%	+0.1	n/a	2/4	-28%	+13%	+8%	1.5
Hawaii Five-0	1.2	16%	+0%	+0.0	+0.1	9/19	-14%	-4%	-14%	1.5
Blue Bloods	1.4	16%	+0%	+0.0	+0.0	2/18	+0%	+4%	+0%	1.7
							CBS:	+4%	-2%
Grimm (R)	0.5	25%						-23%	-55%	0.8
Dateline Fri	1.2	27%	-8%	-0.1	-0.1	11/22	+9%	-9%	-4%	1.6
							NBC:	-12%	-19%
World's Funniest Fails	0.8	38%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	4/9	n/a	+0%	+60%	1.1
Glee	0.7	44%	+17%	+0.1	+0.0	2/11	-22%	+8%	+40%	1.1
							Fox:	+3%	+50%
Hart of Dixie (R)	0.2	36%						-50%	-50%	0.3
TV's Hottest Commercials (R)	0.1	19%						-71%	-67%	0.3
							CW:	-60%	-57%
							Big5:	-3%	-9%

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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