Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 6/9/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The NBA Finals ended up at 18.77 million viewers and a 7.3 demo, each down just a smidge from Game 2 and still way ahead of the 2014 pace. Hell's Kitchen (1.1) adjusted up to avoid a new low, but iZombie didn't.

• The NBA Finals took its first crack at the Tuesday regulars, and it now looks likely it'll be in play again next week. NBC held up pretty well, with America's Got Talent (2.3) down just a tenth and a reasonable 12% behind the episode on this night last year. Its lead-out I Can Do That (1.6) preliminarily gained a tick back after last week's decline (though the 1.8 -> 1.4 half-hour breakdown is pretty ugly).

• On Fox, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (0.8) inched up, but the finale of Hell's Kitchen (1.0) dropped to a new low (and miles behind last year's 1.7 finale). And much like The 100 last year, iZombie (0.5) dropped for the last episode of its summer run, though with a 0.5 -> 0.6 breakdown it may be close to adjusting up.

• As for the NBA Finals, they hit a series high 13.7 in the household overnights and should be way up year-to-year again in the demo. The two-hour A18-49 prelim (5.8) was a touch better than Thursday's rating.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night	1.1	37%	+10%	+0.1	n/a	1/3	+10%	+38%	+10%	1.4
NBA Countdown	1.9	44%	+27%	+0.4	+0.1	2/3	+19%	+138%	+19%	2.5
NBA Finals	7.3	49%	-1%	-0.1	+0.4	2/3	+24%	+842%	+35%	8.7
							ABC:	+585%	+33%
NCIS (R)	0.8	14%						-11%	-16%	1.1
NCIS: New Orleans (R)	0.8	15%						-11%	+14%	1.4
48 Hours (R)	0.7	16%						-26%	+8%	1.3
							CBS:	-16%	+0%
America's Got Talent Tue	2.3	28%	-4%	-0.1	n/a	3/3	-12%	-6%	-12%	2.6
I Can Do That	1.6	37%	+7%	+0.1	-0.1	2/3	n/a	+7%	+10%	2.0
							NBC:	-3%	-7%
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?	0.8	34%	+14%	+0.1	n/a	1/3	n/a	+7%	+78%	1.1
Hell's Kitchen	1.1	41%	+0%	+0.0	+0.1	13/16	-31%	+0%	+175%	1.8
							Fox:	+3%	+124%
The Flash (R)	0.4	42%						+0%	+60%	0.5
iZombie	0.5	44%	-17%	-0.1	+0.0	13/13	n/a	-17%	+100%	0.7
							CW:	-10%	+80%
							Big5:	+85%	+24%

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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