Spotted Ratings, Sunday 3/29/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• AMC had one last thorough domination of primetime with the 90-minute season finale of The Walking Dead (8.16), which was 2% above the 8.00 that ended last season and wrapped up a +5% spring season overall.

• CBS had NCAA basketball coverage (4.3) running 17 minutes into primetime, which significantly boosted 60 Minutes (2.3) and provided another small boost to Madam Secretary (1.4), which finally got back to the low end of its fall ratings. 

• Other than CBS, it was pretty rough sledding against the Dead finale. ABC saw Once Upon a Time (1.7) and Secrets and Lies (1.3) each shed a couple tenths, while Fox was even more alarming with another hour of The Last Man on Earth (1.4/1.2) down over 25% week-to-week in each hour. Last Man had a somewhat surprising uptick last week, so maybe the airings on the 22nd were flukes in the positive direction and this one was a fluke in the negative direction. We'll see what's left in two weeks when original Family Guy is back and The Walking Dead is traded out for Game of Thrones.

• On the last Sunday before it finally starts airing a real lineup, NBC had a productive showing from the iHeartRadio Music Awards (1.7), even with last season when it aired on Thursday and famously beat American Idol head-to-head.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
America's Funniest Home Videos (R)	1.1	25%						-19%	-12%	1.4
Once Upon a Time	1.7	39%	-11%	-0.2	-0.3	15/16	-19%	-11%	-21%	2.0
Secrets and Lies	1.3	32%	-13%	-0.2	-0.2	5/5	n/a	-10%	-45%	1.4
Revenge	1.0	30%	-9%	-0.1	-0.2	13/18	-29%	-5%	-29%	1.3
							ABC:	-11%	-29%
60 Minutes	2.3	21%	+35%	+0.6	n/a	7/26	-18%	-16%	-12%	1.8
Madam Secretary	1.4	16%	+8%	+0.1	+0.6	11/18	n/a	-7%	-30%	1.4
The Good Wife	1.0	14%	+0%	+0.0	+0.1	14/17	-44%	-13%	-43%	1.1
Battle Creek	0.8	17%	+0%	+0.0	+0.0	3/5	n/a	-11%	-45%	1.2
							CBS:	-13%	-29%
The Voice (R)	0.5	23%						-23%	-17%	0.9
iHeartRadio Music Awards	1.7	41%					+0%	+57%	+76%	2.0
							NBC:	+44%	+40%
The Simpsons (R)	0.6	47%						-25%	-40%	1.0
Bob's Burgers (R)	0.8	52%						-20%	-43%	1.1
The Simpsons (R)	1.0	48%						-9%	-47%	1.3
Family Guy (R)	1.2	54%						-14%	-43%	1.5
The Last Man on Earth	1.4	52%	-18%	-0.3	-0.7	6/6	n/a	-26%	-13%	1.5
The Last Man on Earth	1.2	46%	-14%	-0.2	+0.2	7/7	n/a	-29%	-14%	1.4
							Fox:	-22%	-34%
							Big4:	-5%	-19%

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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