Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 5/12/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: NCIS (2.0) will have to wait for 2015-16 to drop below a rounded 2.0 for the first time. American Idol (1.3) and The Flash (1.5) also went up a tenth, while iZombie (0.6) was down.

• ABC's two-hour Agents of SHIELD (1.3) closed season two in surprisingly ugly fashion, dropping to a new series low that was at least two tenths behind what the show has consistently done since returning from hiatus. The Marvel vs. DC crowd will be quick to point out that SHIELD lost outright to The Flash (1.4), which had yet another amazing late-season rating.

• Fox had a special performance hour of American Idol (1.2) at 9/8c leading out of Hell's Kitchen (1.2). Idol went almost 30% behind last year's 1.7 Tuesday performance finale (which was a week later).

• For the second straight night, The Voice (2.1) had a minor rebound for NBC, while the one-hour finale of Undateable (1.3) tied last week's live episode and Chicago Fire (1.5) inched down.

• And CBS closed up shop on Tuesday for the summer with NCIS (1.9) hoping for a finals uptick to avoid its first trip into the ones. NCIS: New Orleans (1.7) narrowly rose, while CBS unloaded another original CSI: Cyber (1.2) at 10/9c.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Dancing with the Stars Special	1.5	19%	+7%	+0.1	n/a	2/3	n/a	+7%	-25%	1.7
Agents of SHIELD	1.3	43%	-13%	-0.2	+0.1	21/21	-35%	+2%	+21%	1.6
							ABC:	+4%	-1%
NCIS	2.0	17%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	21/24	-23%	-2%	-23%	2.2
NCIS: New Orleans	1.7	16%	+6%	+0.1	+0.0	20/23	n/a	+6%	-32%	1.6
CSI: Cyber	1.2	18%	+0%	+0.0	-0.1	8/11	n/a	+4%	-37%	1.4
							CBS:	+2%	-30%
The Voice Tue	2.1	29%	+5%	+0.1	n/a	11/12	-19%	+8%	-19%	2.3
Undateable	1.3	41%	+0%	+0.0	+0.1	6/8	n/a	+0%	-16%	1.4
Chicago Fire	1.5	29%	-6%	-0.1	+0.0	20/23	-21%	-9%	-21%	1.8
							NBC:	+0%	-19%
Hell's Kitchen	1.2	47%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	6/11	-29%	+0%	+85%	1.5
American Idol Wed	1.3	30%	-7%	-0.1	n/a	18/18	-38%	+53%	+160%	1.6
							Fox:	+22%	+117%
The Flash	1.5	52%	+7%	+0.1	n/a	4/22	n/a	+3%	+76%	1.7
iZombie	0.6	45%	+0%	+0.0	+0.1	7/9	n/a	+0%	-25%	0.5
							CW:	+2%	+27%
							Big5:	+6%	-3%

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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