Spotted Ratings, Monday 4/20/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: If you had a 1.5 or higher in the prelims, you adjusted up, meaning a tenth for Dancing with the Stars, Mike and Molly, Scorpion, The Voice and Gotham, and a very rare two-tenth upgrade for 2 Broke Girls (2.1). The first three CBS shows all hit their highest ratings in over a month (and in over two months for Scorpion).

• Finale night for CBS' very successful drama newbie Scorpion (2.1) produced a nice bounce over the last few episodes, and CBS' comedies 2 Broke Girls (1.9) and Mike and Molly (1.9) were also narrowly up. But the momentum quickly ended at 10/9c as NCIS: Los Angeles (1.4) dropped to an abnormally low number with all of its drama competitors in play. 

• On NBC, The Voice (2.5) took a sizable hit. This was the same week that a similar decline (3.4 -> 3.0) occurred last year, so it remained at the same mid-teens year-to-year decline that has been the norm in recent weeks.

• ABC's Dancing with the Stars (2.0) and Castle (1.4) were both slightly down, while Fox's Gotham (1.5) remained at last week's low return number and The Following (1.2) inched up. The CW's The Originals (0.5) rebounded but Jane the Virgin remained mired at 0.4.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Dancing with the Stars	2.1	20%	-5%	-0.1	n/a	2/6	-5%	-5%	-2%	2.1
Castle	1.4	21%	-7%	-0.1	+0.0	16/20	-22%	+40%	-24%	1.3
							ABC:	+4%	-9%
2 Broke Girls	2.1	35%	+17%	+0.3	n/a	8/18	+0%	+17%	+0%	2.2
Mike and Molly	2.0	31%	+11%	+0.2	+0.3	9/18	+5%	+11%	+18%	2.0
Scorpion	2.2	26%	+16%	+0.3	+0.2	11/22	n/a	+16%	+16%	2.1
NCIS: Los Angeles	1.4	20%	-13%	-0.2	+0.3	21/21	n/a	-13%	+47%	1.4
							CBS:	+7%	+19%
The Voice Mon	2.6	31%	-10%	-0.3	n/a	9/9	-13%	-10%	-13%	2.6
The Night Shift	1.3	31%	+0%	+0.0	-0.3	5/10	n/a	+0%	-54%	1.1
							NBC:	-8%	-26%
Gotham	1.6	46%	+7%	+0.1	n/a	19/20	n/a	+7%	+7%	1.7
The Following	1.2	45%	+9%	+0.1	+0.1	3/9	-14%	+9%	-14%	1.2
							Fox:	+8%	-3%
The Originals	0.5	49%	+25%	+0.1	n/a	13/19	-17%	+25%	+100%	0.6
Jane the Virgin	0.4	48%	+0%	+0.0	+0.1	13/19	n/a	+0%	+60%	0.4
							CW:	+13%	+80%
							Big5:	+2%	-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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