Spotted Ratings, Thursday 8/6/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The Republican debate on Fox News averaged a truly ridiculous 24 million viewers, and the A18-49 rating was a still sky-high 5.3 (about on par with a higher-end Monday Night Football game). Jon Stewart's final The Daily Show was also a standout with a 1.43, about three times its normal rating. Big Brother adjusted up to 2.1.

• On a night whose most memorable rating will come from the Republican debate on Fox News, one of the few broadcast offerings on the upswing was actually the newsmagazine Dateline (1.1). Its lead-in Food Fighters (0.9) was also on the high end.

• Meanwhile, it was the scripted shows hit hardest. Under the Dome (0.8) plummeted to a new low for CBS, while ABC also took a hit across the board as The Astronaut Wives Club (0.6), Mistresses (0.6) and Rookie Blue (0.6) all tied their previous lows.

• Despite Dome's struggles, CBS still dominated the night as Big Brother (2.0) was back in the twos for the third time in four airings. 

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
The Astronaut Wives Club	0.6	22%	-25%	-0.2	n/a	7/8	n/a	-29%	+9%	0.9
Mistresses	0.6	30%	-14%	-0.1	-0.2	7/8	-33%	-14%	-20%	1.2
Rookie Blue	0.6	24%	-14%	-0.1	-0.1	6/7	-25%	-14%	-29%	1.2
							ABC:	-20%	-16%
The Big Bang Theory (R)	1.5	27%						+0%	-29%	1.7
Mom (R)	1.2	28%						+9%	-33%	1.5
Big Brother Thu	2.1	43%	+0%	+0.0	+0.1	1/7	-9%	+2%	-7%	2.7
Under the Dome	0.8	26%	-20%	-0.2	+0.0	7/7	-50%	-24%	-33%	1.3
							CBS:	-3%	-21%
Food Fighters	0.9	31%	+13%	+0.1	n/a	1/6	-25%	+20%	+20%	1.2
Dateline (R)	1.1	28%						+7%	+47%	1.6
							NBC:	+11%	+38%
Boom!	0.7	39%	+17%	+0.1	n/a	2/7	n/a	+27%	+40%	1.0
Bones (R)	0.4	22%						-11%	-33%	1.1
							Fox:	+10%	-0%
Beauty and the Beast	0.2	32%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	4/9	n/a	-20%	-33%	0.3
Dates	0.2	54%	+0%	+0.0	+0.1	1/9	n/a	+100%	+0%	0.5
Dates	0.2	57%	+0%	+0.0	+0.0	1/10	n/a	+0%	+0%	0.5
							CW:	+0%	-20%
							Big5:	-0%	-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.

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