Spotted Ratings, Thursday 5/7/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The Big Bang Theory (3.7) went up two tenths but was still down 24% vs. last year's finale. Grey's Anatomy (2.1) had a rare downtick.

• With no NFL Draft and a very rare night at this time of year with no NBA playoffs, CBS' season finale of The Big Bang Theory (3.5) still managed only a minor week-to-week bounceback. And it was a revealing night for The Odd Couple; a 1.8 at 8:30 is bad (will likely be 50% retention or less after finals), and then it dropped to just a 1.5 in the 9:00 hour. It was always pretty clear this show was no Mom, but this was a bad week even by TOC's previous standards. A weaker 9/8c occupant also helped derail the 9:30 TBBT repeat (1.4) and an original Elementary (1.1).

• On ABC, TGIT got another week removed from the big Grey's Anatomy events and was closer to its late-season norm, though Grey's (2.2) was still a little higher than what it was doing a month or so ago. Scandal (2.2) remained pretty modest.

• After an ugly week vs. the NFL Draft, several of last week's dramas mercifully rebounded. The Blacklist (1.4) got some of last week's collapse back even as the installation of a Law and Order: SVU repeat (0.6) brought little improvement at 8/7c. Bones (1.1/1.1) was narrowly up for two original hours, and CW's The Vampire Diaries (0.6) dodged a second straight 0.5.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Grey's Anatomy	2.1	34%	-19%	-0.5	n/a	18/23	-16%	-16%	+200%	2.4
Scandal	2.2	38%	-4%	-0.1	-0.7	20/21	n/a	-17%	-10%	2.3
American Crime	1.0	30%	+11%	+0.1	-0.4	7/10	n/a	+11%	-13%	1.2
							ABC:	-12%	+23%
The Big Bang Theory	3.7	32%	+9%	+0.3	n/a	20/24	-24%	+12%	-3%	4.0
The Odd Couple	1.8	28%	-10%	-0.2	+0.3	10/10	n/a	-10%	-5%	1.7
The Odd Couple	1.5	27%	-17%	-0.3	-1.9	11/11	n/a	-25%	-29%	1.6
The Big Bang Theory (R)	1.4	25%						-18%	+8%	1.7
Elementary	1.1	20%	-8%	-0.1	-0.3	21/23	-27%	-8%	-24%	1.4
							CBS:	-7%	-12%
Law and Order: SVU (R)	0.6	23%						+20%	-37%	1.0
The Blacklist	1.4	26%	+17%	+0.2	+0.1	19/20	-48%	+12%	+40%	1.8
Dateline Wed	0.8	21%	-11%	-0.1	+0.2	9/9	n/a	-11%	-16%	1.1
							NBC:	+6%	-3%
Bones	1.1	31%	+10%	+0.1	n/a	12/17	n/a	+33%	-25%	1.4
							Fox:	+33%	-25%
The Vampire Diaries	0.6	58%	+20%	+0.1	n/a	17/21	-14%	+9%	-14%	0.8
Reign	0.3	39%	+0%	+0.0	+0.1	16/21	-40%	+0%	-40%	0.5
							CW:	+6%	-25%
							Big5:	-1%	-7%

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.