Spotted Ratings, Sunday 4/12/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: CBS ended up with a 3.3 in the last 16 minutes of Masters coverage leading into an above-average 1.8 for 60 Minutes and 1.4 for Madam Secretary. The Good Wife (1.1) was also up a tenth week-to-week.

• CABLE UPDATE: The Game of Thrones premiere averaged 8 million viewers and a 4.19 A18-49, up 16% from last year's premiere and a new series high (beating the 3.95 from late last season). The season two premiere for Silicon Valley (1.26) was up an almost identical 17% year-to-year. MTV's Movie Awards (0.78) garnered a lot less interest than usual.

• Opposite a lot of cable competition, it was not a positive week two for NBC's Sunday lineup, as A.D The Bible Continues (1.7) and American Odyssey (0.8) each tumbled by over 25%. Odyssey is certainly dunzo now, and the question becomes whether A.D. can hold on from here. (The Bible actually dropped nearly the same amount in week two, but it went up from there and the week two number ended up being the series low.)

• The other networks were also in at least mostly original mode. Fox saw a below-average Family Guy (1.5) in an odd 8:30 airing that led into yet another full hour of The Last Man on Earth (1.3/1.3). ABC saw both Once Upon a Time (1.6) and Revenge (0.9) inch down again, though Secrets and Lies held at 1.3. And CBS probably got at least a small boost with the end of the Masters leading in, but we'll have to wait for finals since it overran about 15 minutes into primetime.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
America's Funniest Home Videos	1.1	26%	-21%	-0.3	n/a	15/18	-15%	-12%	-15%	1.5
Once Upon a Time	1.6	39%	-6%	-0.1	+0.0	17/17	-20%	+0%	-18%	1.9
Secrets and Lies	1.3	34%	+0%	+0.0	-0.1	5/6	n/a	-7%	-38%	1.5
Revenge	0.9	30%	-10%	-0.1	+0.0	15/19	-31%	-40%	-33%	1.2
							ABC:	-15%	-27%
60 Minutes	1.8	18%	+80%	+0.8	n/a	10/28	+13%	+89%	+9%	1.6
Madam Secretary	1.4	16%	+27%	+0.3	+0.8	11/20	n/a	+27%	-22%	1.5
The Good Wife	1.1	16%	+10%	+0.1	+0.3	13/19	-27%	+5%	-24%	1.3
Battle Creek	0.7	14%	+0%	+0.0	+0.1	6/7	n/a	+0%	-55%	1.0
							CBS:	+32%	-22%
Dateline Sun	0.6	22%	-40%	-0.4	n/a	9/9	-25%	-20%	-20%	1.0
A.D. The Bible Continues (R)	0.9	24%						-5%	+29%	1.2
A.D. The Bible Continues	1.7	28%	-26%	-0.6	-0.1	2/2	n/a	-28%	+62%	1.9
American Odyssey	0.8	25%	-27%	-0.3	-0.6	2/2	n/a	-30%	-27%	1.0
							NBC:	-23%	-3%
The Simpsons (R)	0.6	50%						+50%	-25%	1.2
Bob's Burgers (R)	0.7	58%						+17%	-36%	1.1
The Simpsons (R)	0.9	53%						-10%	-47%	1.3
Family Guy	1.5	61%	-12%	-0.2	-0.5	12/14	-29%	+36%	-29%	1.9
The Last Man on Earth	1.3	51%	+8%	+0.1	+0.1	7/8	n/a	+63%	+0%	1.6
The Last Man on Earth	1.3	49%	+0%	+0.0	-0.2	7/9	n/a	+86%	+8%	1.5
							Fox:	+37%	-23%
							Big4:	+2%	-20%

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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