Spotted Ratings, Sunday 3/8/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: Fox had a big night of adjustments, as all the originals except for The Simpsons went up a notch, reducing The Last Man on Earth's week-to-week drop to -21%. Revenge (1.1) also adjusted up.

• Last Sunday's big breakthrough The Last Man on Earth (1.8) was down 25% in week two, falling slightly behind its new lead-in from Family Guy (2.0). It's a steep drop, but it gave itself room to withstand this. Like The Simpsons last week, Family Guy did a good job bouncing back from bad event season ratings,but Fox saw the arrival of DST take a toll earlier in the night as Bob's Burgers (1.1), The Simpsons (1.6) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1.4) were all down multiple tenths from last week.

• On ABC, week two of Secrets and Lies (1.4) had a good post-premiere hold, down just a tenth from last week's premiere. I hesitate to call it "promising" since it's holding from a premiere that did not do that well, but this at least keeps it from dropping out of the conversation. Its lead-in Once Upon a Time (2.1) absorbed DST well, also down just a tenth from last week's return, while Revenge (1.0) bounced back a bit from the January event season numbers, though this was still on the low end of its fall ratings.

• For CBS, last week's nightmare only intensified. Battle Creek was down two tenths to a horrific 0.8, but the more meaningful story is probably how ugly it's getting in the previous two hours. Madam Secretary (1.1) and The Good Wife (1.0) were down again from already miserable return ratings last week.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
America's Funniest Home Videos	1.4	27%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	4/15	n/a	+8%	+22%	1.8
Once Upon a Time	2.1	40%	-5%	-0.1	+0.1	10/13	-13%	-5%	-14%	2.2
Secrets and Lies	1.4	30%	-7%	-0.1	-0.1	2/2	n/a	-7%	-63%	1.3
Revenge	1.1	29%	+22%	+0.2	+0.4	9/15	-42%	-27%	-42%	1.2
							ABC:	-8%	-35%
60 Minutes	1.0	12%	-38%	-0.6	n/a	21/23	-33%	-38%	-35%	1.4
Madam Secretary	1.1	13%	-15%	-0.2	-0.6	15/15	n/a	-19%	-41%	1.3
The Good Wife	1.0	14%	-9%	-0.1	-0.2	14/14	-23%	-9%	-20%	1.0
Battle Creek	0.8	15%	-20%	-0.2	-0.1	2/2	n/a	-20%	-48%	1.0
							CBS:	-23%	-37%
The Voice (R)	0.8	29%						-32%	-27%	1.1
Dateline Sun	0.8	27%	-11%	-0.1	-0.4	4/4	-27%	-9%	-27%	0.9
							NBC:	-22%	-36%
The Simpsons (R)	0.9	46%						-10%	+0%	1.5
Bob's Burgers	1.2	60%	-14%	-0.2	-0.1	9/14	+33%	-14%	+0%	1.5
The Simpsons	1.6	54%	-11%	-0.2	-0.2	12/16	+14%	-11%	+0%	1.9
Brooklyn Nine-Nine	1.5	61%	-17%	-0.3	-0.2	11/18	+15%	-17%	-32%	1.6
Family Guy	2.1	67%	+75%	+0.9	+0.6	6/12	-5%	-13%	-5%	2.1
The Last Man on Earth	1.9	55%	-21%	-0.5	+0.3	2/2	n/a	-17%	-5%	1.9
							Fox:	-14%	-9%
							Big4:	-16%	-29%

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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