Spotted Ratings, Friday 4/17/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: 20/20 adjusted down and the two-hour rating for The Amazing Race adjusted up to 1.1.

• The CW's new Friday night lineup did... what a lineup introduced this late in the regular season tends to do. But newbie Cedric's Barber Battle (0.2) was rejected in particularly sound fashion, which prevented an original Whose Line Is It Anyway? (0.4) from doing any better than last week's repeats. Whose Line? hit a bunch of 0.4's at this time last spring, so this isn't exactly a catastrophe, but the network may end up moving it to 8/7c to take advantage of the local programming lead-in. Leading out of Whose Line? was new drama The Messengers (0.3); it built narrowly from Whose Line? in total viewers but clearly didn't do enough to make the network look bad for treating it this way.

• Finale night for ABC's comedies saw Last Man Standing (1.1) and Cristela (0.9) each inch down. Cristela had pretty decent retention these last few weeks, but it will likely end up suffering from ABC having so many other comedy options. And Shark Tank (1.5) was #1 as usual but unable to rebound from last week's irregularly low point.

• Without originals for the crime dramas, CBS had a low-end two-hour edition of The Amazing Race (1.1/1.0), while NBC's Grimm (1.0) gave back last week's slight uptick.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Last Man Standing	1.1	23%	-8%	-0.1	n/a	19/21	-8%	-8%	-8%	1.6
Cristela	0.9	24%	-10%	-0.1	-0.1	16/22	n/a	-10%	+13%	1.4
Shark Tank	1.5	29%	+0%	+0.0	-0.1	22/24	-12%	+3%	-9%	2.0
20/20	1.2	27%	-8%	-0.1	+0.0	14/29	-33%	-11%	-33%	1.5
							ABC:	-5%	-17%
The Amazing Race	1.1	26%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	5/7	-35%	+2%	+38%	1.5
Blue Bloods (R)	0.6	13%						-48%	-29%	1.1
							CBS:	-15%	+14%
Grimm	1.0	28%	-9%	-0.1	n/a	16/18	n/a	-5%	+11%	1.5
Dateline (R)	0.9	26%						-10%	-22%	1.4
Dateline Fri	1.0	24%	+0%	+0.0	-0.2	21/25	-17%	-9%	+18%	1.5
							NBC:	-8%	+0%
Movie: Bad Teacher	0.6	36%					n/a	-8%	-40%	1.1
							Fox:	-8%	-40%
Cedric's Barber Battle	0.2	32%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	-50%	-50%	0.4
Whose Line Is It Anyway?	0.4	47%	-33%	-0.2	n/a	6/6	+0%	+0%	+0%	0.7
The Messengers	0.3	32%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	+50%	+20%	0.5
							CW:	+0%	-8%
							Big5:	-8%	-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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