Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 3/11/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The growth streak is over, but Empire (5.8) did adjust up two tenths to avoid an 18-49 decline. American Idol (2.4) also went up, while CSI: Cyber (1.7) finished down a tenth week-to-week.

• A five-week streak of growth for Empire (5.6) appears to have come to an end with the season's penultimate episode, at least in adults 18-49. (Though the total viewership streak, which has lasted since the premiere, is still active; it was up again to 14.7 million.) In its last episode alongside Empire, American Idol (2.3) grew from last week's episode against The Voice but was still down noticeably from everything before in its first post-DST episode.

• On CBS, Survivor (2.2) inched down, but the crime drama results were promising as Criminal Minds (2.1) finally got back into the 2's and CSI: Cyber (1.8) was dead even in week two. Cyber still hasn't faced an original Chicago PD yet (and avoids it again next week). And it had even less competition on ABC from a repeat of American Crime (0.7). But this is still reasonably good news.

• The other networks were mostly in repeat mode, though ABC saw Black-ish (1.5) do better than its usual repeat delivery with a blooper special. And with another Arrow repeat lead-in, the season finale of The 100 preliminarily notched its first 0.4.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
The Goldbergs (R)	1.2	33%						-45%	-40%	1.4
The Goldbergs (R)	1.2	36%						-52%	-25%	1.5
Modern Family (R)	1.5	37%						-56%	-56%	1.7
Black-ish (R)	1.5	41%						-35%	+0%	1.7
American Crime (R)	0.6	29%						-59%	-57%	0.9
							ABC:	-50%	-42%
Survivor	2.2	30%	-4%	-0.1	n/a	3/3	-12%	-4%	-12%	2.4
Criminal Minds	2.1	26%	+11%	+0.2	-0.1	10/17	-9%	+8%	-9%	2.1
CSI: Cyber	1.7	22%	-6%	-0.1	+0.2	2/2	n/a	-3%	-15%	1.7
							CBS:	-0%	-12%
The Mysteries of Laura (R)	0.8	21%						-63%	-38%	1.0
Law and Order: SVU (R)	0.7	24%						-67%	-56%	1.1
Chicago PD (R)	0.9	24%						-18%	-44%	1.2
							NBC:	-55%	-47%
American Idol Wed	2.4	31%	+14%	+0.3	n/a	9/10	+0%	+14%	+0%	2.5
Empire	5.8	49%	+0%	+0.0	+0.3	1/10	n/a	+1%	+142%	5.3
							Fox:	+4%	+71%
Arrow (R)	0.3	34%						-33%	+0%	0.4
The 100	0.4	38%	-20%	-0.1	-0.1	16/16	n/a	-20%	+100%	0.5
							CW:	-26%	+40%
							Big5:	-19%	+1%

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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