Spotted Ratings, Thursday 3/26/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: American Crime (1.3) adjusted up. The CBS games (1.9/2.7) had virtually the same final ratings as the first Thursday last year (2.0/2.6).

• It looks like Scandal (2.3) is officially in crisis, as it preliminarily lost yet another tenth from last week's already alarming number and is now down a full point in just a month. It's equally staggering that this has happened while its lead-in Grey's Anatomy (2.2) is still showing no signs of problems whatsoever. We'll see next week if Grey's has benefited from no The Big Bang Theory the last couple weeks, but this kind of dynamic between the two shows is quite surprising. American Crime remained mired at 1.2.

• On Fox, Bones (1.3) was back from a 3.5-month hiatus at a tenth above the fall finale and about on par with what it did for most of the late fall run, while Backstrom (0.9) hit its usual low number with a weaker but probably more compatible lead-in.

• And NBC preliminarily saw a new low for The Blacklist (1.6). More on the March Madness ratings after finals!

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Grey's Anatomy	2.2	34%	+5%	+0.1	n/a	14/17	-15%	+7%	+120%	2.5
Scandal	2.3	36%	-4%	-0.1	+0.1	17/17	-26%	-2%	-13%	2.4
American Crime	1.3	30%	+8%	+0.1	-0.1	3/4	n/a	+8%	-59%	1.4
							ABC:	+4%	-15%
NCAA Basketball	1.9	35%	+19%	+0.3	n/a	1/6	-5%	+14%	-16%	2.3
NCAA Basketball	2.7	43%	+42%	+0.8	n/a	1/7	+4%	+27%	-6%	3.0
							CBS:	+21%	-10%
Dateline Wed	1.0	20%	-17%	-0.2	n/a	2/3	n/a	-20%	-13%	1.4
The Blacklist	1.6	25%	-11%	-0.2	-0.2	16/16	-43%	-11%	+39%	1.9
The Slap	0.7	28%	+0%	+0.0	-0.2	4/7	n/a	+8%	-50%	0.9
							NBC:	-11%	-11%
Bones	1.3	28%	+8%	+0.1	n/a	6/11	-7%	-26%	-30%	1.7
Backstrom	0.9	32%	-10%	-0.1	-0.9	6/8	n/a	-53%	-44%	1.2
							Fox:	-40%	-36%
The Vampire Diaries (R)	0.2	39%						-69%	-75%	0.4
The Flash (R)	0.2	38%						-43%	-64%	0.4
							CW:	-60%	-70%
							Big5:	-7%	-22%

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.