Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 3/10/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The finals brought 0.2 to The Voice (3.8) and 0.1 to NCIS (2.2), Person of Interest (1.5), Fresh Off the Boat (1.6) and SHIELD (1.5). Most of the new season lows from the prelims still stood, though SHIELD is now only tied for its low.

• After a couple days of shows proving pretty resilient against daylight saving time viewing depressions, Tuesday brought a good old-fashioned DST bloodbath. Every scripted series on ABC and CBS lost at least two tenths from the previous episode, and almost everything in the first two hours on every network hit a new season low. For ABC, Fresh Off the Boat (1.5) didn't have much to crow about but still seems acceptable by post-DST standards, while Agents of SHIELD (1.4) dropped another two tenths from last week's already "meh" return.

• On CBS, there was a new season low 2.1 for NCIS and a particularly ugly 1.6 for NCIS: New Orleans; both shows have now lost nearly a full point over their last three episodes. The only consolation for NCIS: NO and SHIELD is that The Voice contracts back to an hour next week. Only Person of Interest (1.4) in the relatively viewing-unchanged 10:00 hour avoided a low.

• NBC and Fox held up better, relatively speaking; another two-hour The Voice (3.6) was down about 10% from a really strong number last week, and Chicago Fire held last week's 2.1 final (but was down a tick from the prelim). And Fox's Hell's Kitchen (1.3) and The Mindy Project (0.9) each lost a tenth. The latter has the additional reason of New Girl (0.7) beginning a string of repeats to save originals for upcoming Weird Loners.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Fresh Off the Boat	1.6	40%	-6%	-0.1	n/a	8/8	n/a	-6%	-24%	1.8
Repeat After Me	1.1	40%	-8%	-0.1	-0.1	4/4	n/a	-8%	-48%	1.3
Agents of SHIELD	1.5	50%	-6%	-0.1	-0.1	11/12	-29%	-3%	+25%	1.8
Forever (R)	0.7	29%						-26%	-13%	1.1
							ABC:	-10%	-13%
NCIS	2.2	17%	-4%	-0.1	n/a	17/17	n/a	+83%	+69%	2.4
NCIS: New Orleans	1.6	16%	-16%	-0.3	-0.1	17/17	n/a	+52%	+14%	1.6
Person of Interest	1.5	22%	-12%	-0.2	-0.3	12/17	n/a	+76%	+36%	1.7
							CBS:	+71%	+39%
The Voice Tue	3.8	35%	-7%	-0.3	n/a	3/3	+9%	-8%	+43%	3.7
Chicago Fire	2.1	31%	+0%	+0.0	-0.3	4/17	+11%	+0%	+11%	1.9
							NBC:	-6%	+35%
Hell's Kitchen	1.3	47%	-7%	-0.1	n/a	2/2	-35%	-7%	+44%	1.5
New Girl (R)	0.7	64%						-46%	-46%	1.1
The Mindy Project	0.9	65%	-10%	-0.1	-0.6	19/19	n/a	-10%	-25%	1.3
							Fox:	-18%	-2%
The Flash (R)	0.4	39%						+14%	-50%	0.5
Supernatural (R)	0.3	47%						+0%	-40%	0.4
							CW:	+8%	-46%
							Big5:	+2%	+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.

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