Spotted Ratings, Thursday 10/1/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: Bones (1.4) went up, now at its outright best number since last December. The Player (1.0) also got a surprising bump, but nothing in TGIT adjusted despite a couple shows being close in the prelims. Thursday Night Football had a 6.9 final, up nearly a point from last week. This is CBS' biggest TNF rating other than the 2014 and 2015 premiere games.

• NBC brought back The Blacklist (1.8) for season three with a considerably better lead-in than it enjoyed for most of its Thursday run in the winter/spring, and got a solid result. This is more like where Blacklist settled in the winter, and a healthy rally from its ugly spring run (which got as low as 1.2).
• Meanwhile, lead-in Heroes Reborn (1.6) was down a typical-ish 20% in week two, still showing real potential to be a big timeslot improvement in its own right. But Blacklist's lead-out newbie The Player (0.9) proved no better a match with its new lead-in, shedding 25% to drop to the clear bottom of the early NBC totem pole.

• Fox's opening Thursday was less promising overall, though one probably couldn't ask too much more of Bones (1.3), which rose above most of its spring deliveries to its highest rating since the spring premiere (albeit still three tenths behind last year's fall premiere). But the season three ugliness began from day one for Monday transplant Sleepy Hollow (1.0), already deep in new series low territory and a full half behind last year's premiere.

• On ABC, Grey's Anatomy (2.3), Scandal (2.8) and How to Get Away with Murder (2.3) were all down double digits in week two, pretty similar drops to what went down in week two last year. Grey's and Scandal still aren't too far off of league average year-to-year declines (and Grey's might even get there if it adjusts up). Murder remains weakest on a year-to-year basis by a wide margin, well below last year's 3.2 in week two.

• More on football after finals!

FULL TABLE:

	Info		Show					Timeslot
	A18-49	Skew	Last%	Last#	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Grey's Anatomy	2.3	34%	-18%	-0.5	n/a	2/2	-12%	-18%	-12%
Scandal	2.8	39%	-15%	-0.5	-0.5	2/2	-15%	-15%	-15%
How to Get Away with Murder	2.3	39%	-12%	-0.3	-0.5	2/2	-28%	-12%	-28%
							ABC:	-15%	-19%
Thursday Night Football Kickoff	2.5	38%	+14%	+0.3	n/a	2/3	+0%	+14%	+0%
Thursday Night Football	6.9	45%	+15%	+0.9	+0.3	2/3	+17%	+15%	+17%
							CBS:	+15%	+16%
Heroes Reborn	1.6	41%	-20%	-0.4	n/a	2/2		-20%	+23%
The Blacklist	1.8	29%			n/a	1/1	-49%	-10%	+44%
The Player	1.0	28%	-17%	-0.2	-0.2	2/2		-17%	-23%
							NBC:	-15%	+14%
Bones	1.4	29%			n/a	1/1	-13%	+100%	-7%
Sleepy Hollow	1.0	37%			n/a	1/1	-50%	+43%	-9%
							Fox:	+71%	-8%
The Flash (R)	0.4	46%						+0%	-56%
Arrow (R)	0.3	45%						+0%	-25%
							CW:	+0%	-46%
							Big5:	+5%	+0%

The full table can be sorted by clicking any of the category names at the top. Hover over 'Last', 'y2y' and timeslot numbers for more information on the previous episode(s) being compared.