Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 8/11/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: Zoo adjusted up to hit its 1.2 premiere number for the fourth time, while Hollywood Game Night (1.4) went down (but was still, like Talent, up three tenths from last week). On cable, the finale of Pretty Little Liars got an enormous spike to 1.39, 35% above last summer's finale and the biggest number for a scripted series since True Detective's premiere over seven weeks ago.

• Even by its usually dominant standards, NBC had a great night as America's Got Talent (2.5) and Hollywood Game Night (1.5) each surged by multiple tenths. The utter lack of Tuesday competition surely helps, but historically Talent has almost never been this close to its early-season levels well into August. This was a second straight Tuesday point up double digits year-to-year.

• CBS also had good news with a rebound for Zoo, which (provided it doesn't adjust up) hit its first 1.1 after six weeks at either 1.2 or 1.0. Straggling originals Extreme Weight Loss (0.7) and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (0.6) stayed even, though Fox improved a touch in the second hour by adding a Brooklyn Nine-Nine repeat (0.5) at 9/8c.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Fresh Off the Boat (R)	0.6	31%						-40%	-40%	0.8
Black-ish (R)	0.6	38%						-45%	-45%	1.1
Extreme Weight Loss	0.7	37%	+0%	+0.0	+0.0	4/9	-42%	-46%	-54%	1.1
							ABC:	-45%	-51%
NCIS (R)	1.0	15%						+18%	-5%	1.2
Zoo	1.2	23%	+20%	+0.2	+0.1	1/7	n/a	+20%	+33%	1.5
NCIS: New Orleans (R)	0.8	17%						+23%	+7%	1.2
							CBS:	+20%	+11%
America's Got Talent Tue	2.5	28%	+14%	+0.3	n/a	3/12	+19%	+14%	+64%	2.6
Hollywood Game Night	1.4	36%	+27%	+0.3	+0.3	2/6	n/a	+22%	-33%	1.6
							NBC:	+15%	+24%
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?	0.6	31%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	5/8	n/a	+9%	-8%	0.8
The Last Man on Earth (R)	0.3	34%						+0%	-40%	0.8
							Fox:	+6%	-22%
The Flash (R)	0.4	45%						+33%	+100%	0.5
iZombie (R)	0.3	49%						+100%	+0%	0.4
							CW:	+56%	+40%
							Big5:	+1%	-4%

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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