Spotted Ratings, Sunday 3/15/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: 60 Minutes (1.5) and the three brand new shows The Last Man on Earth (1.7), Secrets and Lies (1.4) and Battle Creek (0.9) all inched up. We can now say Secrets is having a pretty impressive post-premiere hold, and the Last Man drop looks a bit more excusable now when considering what happened to Family Guy.

• A few of the shows that withstood the opening post-DST Sunday had trouble on the second one. On ABC, the biggest example was Once Upon a Time (1.8), which followed last week's solid one-tenth decline with another three tenths this time. It's still not at its December low yet, but it's pretty close, and that 1.7 in December had a mere 0.5 lead-in. The other two scripted hours on ABC were relatively stable as Secrets and Lies (1.3) shed just a tenth for the second straight week and Revenge was flat at 1.1. 

• Fox's worst news was a second straight 20%ish drop for The Last Man on Earth (1.5), still a passable number but now miles away from that extremely promising premiere a couple weeks ago. It's worth noting it had little help from its Family Guy lead-in (1.7), which was down almost as much. The other Fox shows Bob's Burgers (1.0), The Simpsons (1.5) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1.4) also inched down.

• CBS still looks pretty dire, but it got some minor consolation as Madam Secretary (1.2) inched back up. The Good Wife (1.0) and Battle Creek (0.8) were both even.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
America's Funniest Home Videos	1.3	28%	-7%	-0.1	n/a	7/16	-13%	-7%	-13%	1.8
Once Upon a Time	1.8	39%	-14%	-0.3	-0.1	13/14	-25%	-14%	-25%	2.0
Secrets and Lies	1.4	33%	+0%	+0.0	-0.3	2/3	n/a	-3%	-55%	1.4
Revenge	1.1	29%	+0%	+0.0	+0.0	9/16	-35%	+5%	-35%	1.3
							ABC:	-7%	-36%
60 Minutes	1.5	17%	+50%	+0.5	n/a	14/24	-12%	+43%	-12%	2.0
Madam Secretary	1.2	14%	+9%	+0.1	+0.5	15/16	n/a	+9%	-33%	1.3
The Good Wife	1.0	14%	+0%	+0.0	+0.1	14/15	-23%	-5%	-23%	1.1
Battle Creek	0.9	17%	+13%	+0.1	+0.0	2/3	n/a	+13%	-31%	1.2
							CBS:	+15%	-25%
The Voice (R)	0.8	30%						-3%	-43%	1.2
Dateline Sun	0.9	22%	+13%	+0.1	+0.0	3/5	n/a	+9%	-40%	1.1
							NBC:	+3%	-49%
The Simpsons (R)	0.7	41%						-22%	-36%	1.4
Bob's Burgers	1.0	57%	-17%	-0.2	-0.2	11/15	-9%	-17%	-29%	1.5
The Simpsons	1.5	53%	-6%	-0.1	-0.2	13/17	-21%	-12%	-21%	1.8
Brooklyn Nine-Nine	1.4	60%	-7%	-0.1	-0.1	15/19	+17%	-7%	-39%	1.5
Family Guy	1.7	63%	-19%	-0.4	-0.1	10/13	-26%	-19%	-15%	1.8
The Last Man on Earth	1.6	54%	-16%	-0.3	-0.4	3/3	n/a	-16%	-16%	1.7
							Fox:	-15%	-25%
							Big4:	-2%	-34%

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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