Spotted Ratings, Monday 5/4/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UDPATE: 2 Broke Girls (1.7) and Mike and Molly (1.6) went up a tenth.

• The season finale of Fox's Gotham had a nice increase to 1.7, its best number since returning from hiatus in mid-April and perhaps a good sign for the future. But lead-out The Following inched down to 1.1.

• It wasn't a good late-season evening for the singing competitions, as The Voice took a sizable hit to a new performance low 2.3. The Monday show held tight at 3.0 in the closing weeks last year, so this is its worst year-to-year point of the season by a pretty wide margin. Dancing with the Stars (1.9) also hit a new season low. The shows' lead-outs The Night Shift (1.3) and Castle (1.4) held on at 10/9c, perhaps benefiting from no CBS drama competition.

• CBS' comedies continued to struggle in a post-Scorpion world, with 2 Broke Girls (1.6) unable to come back from last week's plunge and Mike and Molly (1.5) taking another sizable hit. CBS slightly improved on last week's final 90 minutes with a David Letterman tribute special (1.5).

• The CW's Jane the Virgin preliminarily inched up to its first 0.5 in awhile, but a 0.4/0.5 breakdown means it is not there by a wide margin.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Dancing with the Stars	1.9	19%	-5%	-0.1	n/a	8/8	+0%	-5%	+1%	2.0
Castle	1.4	22%	+8%	+0.1	-0.1	16/22	-13%	+8%	-15%	1.4
							ABC:	-2%	-4%
2 Broke Girls	1.7	34%	+6%	+0.1	n/a	18/20	-15%	+6%	-15%	1.9
Mike and Molly	1.6	30%	-6%	-0.1	+0.1	20/20	-6%	-6%	+0%	1.8
The Big Bang Theory (R)	1.5	26%						+15%	-12%	1.6
David Letterman: A Life on Television	1.5	23%					n/a	+10%	+73%	1.6
							CBS:	+7%	+18%
The Voice Mon	2.3	30%	-12%	-0.3	n/a	11/11	-23%	-12%	-23%	2.4
The Night Shift	1.3	30%	+8%	+0.1	-0.3	5/12	n/a	+8%	-51%	1.3
							NBC:	-8%	-32%
Gotham	1.7	44%	+13%	+0.2	n/a	19/22	n/a	+13%	-35%	1.9
The Following	1.1	43%	-8%	-0.1	+0.2	6/11	n/a	-8%	-57%	1.2
							Fox:	+4%	-46%
The Originals	0.5	56%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	13/21	-17%	+0%	+67%	0.6
Jane the Virgin	0.5	60%	+25%	+0.1	+0.0	5/21	n/a	+25%	+25%	0.6
							CW:	+11%	+43%
							Big5:	+0%	-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.

More Spotted Ratings in the Index.