Spotted Ratings, Thursday 5/28/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: Aquarius (1.1) and The Big Bang Theory (R) (1.5) adjusted up.

• NBC's summer drama Aquarius kicked off with 5.7 million viewers and a 1.0 demo rating. This is not awful by summer standards, and the '60s-set drama didn't skew that much older than its Dateline lead-in (6.4 million viewers and a 1.2). However, the half-hour breakdowns don't bode well for the future, as it went 1.3 -> 1.0 -> 1.0 -> 0.9 over the four 30-minute segments. Also, NBA Finals competition looms next week, and there's the fact that anyone who's truly interested can watch future episodes online now.

• On Fox, Wayward Pines (1.2) held onto its week-two spike and beat Aquarius head-to-head, getting an assist from the return of Bones (1.2) for a run of summer originals. Bones had its best rating since the first spring episode, perhaps benefiting from lightweight competition.

• Two more hours of 500 Questions wrapped up the season in typical fashion, averaging a 1.0 in the 8:00 hour and 1.1 at 9:00. CBS' repeat of The Big Bang Theory (1.4) was Thursday's top program but dropped a couple tenths from last week.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
500 Questions	1.1	28%	+10%	+0.1	n/a	2/7	n/a	+7%	+91%	1.4
Jimmy Kimmel Live (R)	0.6	28%						+0%	-20%	0.9
							ABC:	+6%	+47%
The Big Bang Theory (R)	1.5	25%						-6%	-25%	1.7
The Odd Couple (R)	1.1	26%						-15%	-27%	1.5
Mom (R)	1.0	26%						-17%	-33%	1.4
Mike and Molly (R)	1.0	27%						+0%	-17%	1.4
Elementary (R)	0.6	19%						-8%	-29%	1.0
							CBS:	-9%	-27%
Dateline Wed (S)	1.2	24%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	+50%	-0%	1.5
Aquarius	1.1	25%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	+47%	-24%	1.4
							NBC:	+48%	-17%
Bones	1.2	28%	+20%	+0.2	n/a	11/20	n/a	+60%	-27%	1.5
Wayward Pines	1.2	38%	+0%	+0.0	+0.4	1/3	n/a	-4%	+26%	1.7
							Fox:	+20%	-8%
iZombie (R)	0.3	51%						+50%	+0%	0.4
The Vampire Diaries (R)	0.2	52%						+0%	-33%	0.4
							CW:	+25%	-17%
							Big5:	+14%	-9%

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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