Spotted Ratings, Monday 4/13/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: With baseball pre-emptions removed, both The Originals and Jane the Virgin went down two tenths to 0.4, the first ever for The Originals. Dancing with the Stars (2.2) and The Voice (2.9) each went up a tenth and The Night Shift (1.3) went down a tenth.

• It was a rough return after a month off for Fox's Gotham (1.5), which shed 25% of its last pre-hiatus episode (also a pre-DST episode) and was three tenths below its low point from early February. This was always gonna be a tough spot, but this seems like a somewhat steeper decline than Fox would've wanted. And it only got lead-out The Following (1.1) to what it usually got after a Gotham repeat (but two tenths above last week's ep against the NCAA championship).

• There was mostly week-to-week steadiness for originals on the rest of the big four. The most promising results were Dancing with the Stars (2.1), up at least a tenth, and NCIS: Los Angeles (1.6) perhaps benefiting a bit from Castle being in repeats. Scorpion (1.9) was barely down to preliminarily tie its series low from late November.

• It seems certain that the CW's The Originals (0.6) and Jane the Virgin (0.6) will come down in finals due to pre-emptions (in New York and possibly elsewhere). Consider "wait for finals" a pretty good rule of thumb for any CW rating that looks high the rest of the way.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Dancing with the Stars	2.2	20%	+10%	+0.2	n/a	1/5	-4%	+10%	-5%	2.3
Castle (R)	1.0	21%						+25%	-23%	1.0
							ABC:	+13%	-9%
2 Broke Girls	1.8	32%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	15/17	-22%	+80%	-22%	2.0
Mike and Molly	1.8	31%	+0%	+0.0	+0.0	13/17	-14%	-18%	+0%	1.9
Scorpion	1.9	25%	-5%	-0.1	+0.0	20/21	n/a	-79%	-5%	2.0
NCIS: Los Angeles	1.6	22%	+7%	+0.1	-0.1	9/20	-24%	-82%	+68%	1.6
							CBS:	-73%	+6%
The Voice Mon	2.9	33%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	7/8	-15%	+0%	-13%	3.0
The Night Shift	1.3	30%	-7%	-0.1	+0.0	5/9	n/a	-7%	-16%	1.2
							NBC:	-1%	-14%
Gotham	1.5	42%	-25%	-0.5	n/a	19/19	n/a	+200%	+11%	1.7
The Following	1.1	40%	+22%	+0.2	+1.0	4/8	-21%	+22%	-24%	1.3
							Fox:	+86%	-7%
The Originals	0.4	50%	-20%	-0.1	n/a	18/18	-43%	-20%	+33%	0.5
Jane the Virgin	0.4	49%	+0%	+0.0	-0.1	13/18	n/a	+0%	+0%	0.5
							CW:	-11%	+14%
							Big5:	-35%	-6%

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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