Spotted Ratings, Thursday 9/17/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: CBS/NFLN football adjusted to a 7.5, tying last year's premiere. The Jeff Dunham special was also up a tick to 1.3.

• CBS' Thursday Night Football was back for season two with a preliminary 5.0 rating for the night and 5.3ish for the 8:30-11:00 game period. Both of these figures were slightly down from the 5.2 nightly/5.5 game prelims for the CBS opener last year. But CBS will surely cume its number with the NFL Network simulcast in finals, and it may catch up to last year after accounting for that as well as the fact that the game was close after primetime. (It adjusted to a combined 7.5 on CBS/NFLN last year.)

• There wasn't a lot of broadcast resistance on CBS' opening football night, though NBC did get pretty decent mileage out of a night of specials. Jeff Dunham averaged a 1.2 in the 8/7c hour; a two-hour Mat Franco magic special followed, which started with Dunham's 1.2 but declined in each half-hour to a 0.9 by 10:30. ABC averaged a 0.6/0.6/0.4 for TGIT repeats, while Fox continued its pre-Scream Queens horror movie fest with Scream 3 (0.5).

FULL TABLE:

	Info	Show						Timeslot
	A18-49	Skew	Last%	Last#	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y	True
Grey's Anatomy (R)	0.6	24%						+0%	-20%	1.1
Scandal (R)	0.6	25%						+0%	-48%	1.3
How to Get Away (R)	0.4	22%						-33%	-60%	1.2
							ABC:	-11%	-45%
TNF Pregame	2.7	39%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	-21%	+69%	+17%	3.4
Thursday Night Football	7.5	45%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	+0%	+460%	+59%	9.2
							CBS:	+384%	+55%
Jeff Dunham: Unhinged	1.3	25%					n/a	-82%	+0%	1.7
Mat Franco's Got Magic	1.1	30%					n/a	-89%	+2%	1.7
							NBC:	-87%	+1%
Movie: Scream 3	0.5	46%					n/a	+0%	-5%	1.1
							Fox:	+0%	-5%
The Flash (R)	0.3	37%						+50%	+50%	0.5
Arrow (R)	0.2	29%						+100%	+0%	0.4
							CW:	+67%	+25%
							Big5:	-23%	+28%