Spotted Ratings, Monday 3/9/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The finals made the NBC and CBS nights look a good bit better; The Voice (3.8) went up two tenths, putting it on the year-to-year upside and very nearly even with last week. 
• The CBS comedies adjusted up to very nearly even at 2.1 apiece, while NCIS: Los Angeles hit its third-highest rating of the season.
• The finale of The Bachelor (2.8) also gained a tenth, making this the first three-hour Bachelor finale night on which the actual finale outrated "After the Final Rose." (It has happened a couple times with The Bachelorette, though.)

• Some week-to-week slippage was to be expected for week two of The Following, which had a worse lead-in from a Gotham repeat (0.7) and more competition from an original Scorpion (2.0). But this was an obliteration, down a half point to a 1.1 that has it very quickly behind Sleepy Hollow's series low.

• ABC wrapped up The Bachelor with, by this show's standards, a very modest finale spike. It averaged a 2.7 for the two-hour finale and a 2.7 for "After the Final Rose" at 10/9c. This was significantly behind last year's 3.3 finale / 3.8 ATFR, a disappointment considering recent weeks had been even or better year-to-year.

• DST slightly depressed the early originals on the other three networks:
• On CBS, 2 Broke Girls, Mike and Molly and Scorpion all tied at 2.0, but NCIS: Los Angeles (1.7) was slightly up;
• NBC saw The Voice (3.6) took a bit of a hit, but it was very close to the year-ago episode, while The Night Shift stayed at 1.4;
• And the CW's The Originals (0.5) and Jane the Virgin (0.5) each inched down.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
The Bachelor	2.8	37%	+17%	+0.4	n/a	1/11	-15%	+17%	-15%	2.9
The Bachelor (ATFR)	2.7	35%	-4%	-0.1	n/a	2/12	-29%	+170%	-29%	2.4
							ABC:	+43%	-20%
2 Broke Girls	2.1	32%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	8/14	n/a	+11%	-22%	2.2
Mike and Molly	2.1	30%	-5%	-0.1	+0.2	6/13	+17%	-5%	+62%	2.1
Scorpion	2.0	24%	-5%	-0.1	+0.1	14/18	n/a	+43%	+29%	2.0
NCIS: Los Angeles	1.8	21%	+13%	+0.2	-0.1	3/17	n/a	+50%	+38%	1.8
							CBS:	+27%	+22%
The Voice Mon	3.8	35%	-3%	-0.1	n/a	3/3	+3%	-3%	+4%	3.7
The Night Shift	1.3	30%	-7%	-0.1	-0.1	3/3	n/a	-7%	-51%	1.0
							NBC:	-3%	-11%
Gotham (R)	0.6	30%						-70%	-65%	0.8
The Following	1.1	40%	-31%	-0.5	-1.4	2/2	-27%	-31%	-27%	1.5
							Fox:	-53%	-47%
The Originals	0.5	45%	-17%	-0.1	n/a	13/15	-38%	+150%	+67%	0.6
Jane the Virgin	0.5	50%	-17%	-0.1	-0.1	5/15	n/a	+150%	+150%	0.6
							CW:	+150%	+100%
							Big5:	+6%	-12%

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.

More Spotted Ratings in the Index.