Spotted Ratings, Thursday 10/8/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: Grey's Anatomy (2.2) and How to Get Away with Murder (2.2) adjusted up. Thursday Night Football (5.0) had a season low by a wide margin and was down nearly two points from last week. 

• Thursday #3 brought another swath of week-to-week declines, even against what looks like a much weaker football game on CBS/NFL Network. The biggest drops this time came on NBC, where Heroes Reborn (1.2) was down four tenths, making it the latest newbie to experience a brutal week three decline. This takes it from potential real success to just barely an improvement on last year's The Biggest Loser. The Blacklist (1.5) took another of its usual significant post-premiere dips, and The Player (0.9) seems headed for fractional territory this time after adjusting up from 0.9 last week.

• On ABC, Grey's Anatomy (2.1), Scandal (2.6) and How to Get Away with Murder (2.1) were each down two more tenths in the prelims. Once again, this was about in line with how these shows behaved last season, but they pretty much stabilized from here for the rest of the fall, so we'll see if it happens this time.

• The steadiest of the big four nets was actually Fox, where Bones (1.3) lost just a tenth post-premiere and Sleepy Hollow clung for dear life to its 1.0. 

• The CW had a soft start to its vampire consolidation on Thursday with The Vampire Diaries (0.6) only able to match its usual number from the spring and down a third from last season's premiere. The Originals (0.4) was even worse, only tying its series low from last season on Monday. (And it only hit 0.4 once on that night.) Matching last year's Reign premiere is not what the CW was hoping for here.

FULL TABLE:

	Info		Show					Timeslot
	A18-49	Skew	Last%	Last#	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Grey's Anatomy	2.2	34%	-4%	-0.1	n/a	3/3	-8%	-4%	-8%
Scandal	2.6	38%	-7%	-0.2	-0.1	3/3	-13%	-7%	-13%
How to Get Away with Murder	2.2	39%	-4%	-0.1	-0.2	3/3	-29%	-4%	-29%
							ABC:	-5%	-18%
Thursday Night Football Kickoff	1.9	35%	-24%	-0.6	n/a	4/4	-5%	-24%	-5%
Thursday Night Football	5.0	42%	-28%	-1.9	-0.6	4/4	-7%	-28%	-7%
							CBS:	-27%	-7%
Heroes Reborn	1.2	35%	-25%	-0.4	n/a	3/3		-25%	+0%
The Blacklist	1.5	27%	-17%	-0.3	-0.4	2/2	-42%	-17%	+30%
The Player	0.9	26%	-10%	-0.1	-0.3	3/3		-10%	-31%
							NBC:	-18%	-1%
Bones	1.3	28%	-7%	-0.1	n/a	2/2	-19%	-7%	-19%
Sleepy Hollow	1.0	39%	+0%	+0.0	-0.1	1/2	-41%	+0%	+11%
							Fox:	-4%	-8%
The Vampire Diaries	0.6	55%			n/a	1/1	-33%	+50%	-25%
The Originals	0.4	57%			n/a	1/1	-43%	+33%	+0%
							CW:	+43%	-17%
							Big5:	-17%	-10%

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.