Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 1/5/16

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The NCIS twins adjusted up to 2.7/2.5, meaning New Orleans tied its raw series high.

• On a night of crime drama crossovers, CBS' NCIS (2.6) and NCIS: New Orleans (2.4) beat out NBC's Chicago Fire (1.8) and Chicago Med (1.9). For CBS, the mothership NCIS hit a new season high and was just barely below its 2.8 on this night last year. But it's always the second show that benefits even more; New Orleans easily crushed its previous season high 1.9 and actually came incredibly close to a series high (2.5 a couple times last year). However, this major boost was of very little help to Limitless (1.4) at 10/9c, even with Bradley Cooper returning.

• It's hard to complain much about Chicago Fire (1.8) and Chicago Med (1.9), as they ended up with fairly average numbers despite lacking their usual support from The Voice. Instead, their lead-in was the return of summer staple Hollywood Game Night (1.2), which did a fine job to go just a bit below its summer average after America's Got Talent.

• Fox began another tough trip down the two-hour Tuesday comedy road, but at least for tonight it wasn't too disastrous. New Girl (1.4) had a pretty good return at 8/7c, down three tenths from last year's September premiere but nearly matching what it did on this night last year (1.5). And Brooklyn Nine-Nine posted a 1.2 in its move back to Tuesday, about what it usually did on non-NFL Sundays.
• The newbies remain the bigger issues; Grandfathered (1.0) at 8:30 and The Grinder (0.8) at 9:30 each dropped four tenths from their respective veteran lead-ins and were just barely above their late fall deliveries in the 8:00 hour.

• If anybody really got lost in this shuffle, it was ABC, where a one-off original Shark Tank (1.2) went well below its usual Friday numbers leading out of another weak repeat of The Muppets (0.6). Beyond the Tank (1.1) had good retention at 10/9c, but a tough Thursday lead-off role awaits for that show. The CW stayed in repeat mode with The Flash (0.3) and iZombie (0.2).

FULL TABLE:

	Info		Show					Timeslot
	A18-49	Skew	Last%	Last#	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Fresh Off the Boat (R)	0.8	28%						+0%	-58%
The Muppets (R)	0.6	37%						+20%	-68%
Shark Tank	1.2	35%	-14%	-0.2	-0.5	12/12	-37%	+100%	-37%
Beyond the Tank	1.1	36%			n/a	1/1	-31%	+83%	+0%
							ABC:	+62%	-39%
NCIS	2.7	18%	+29%	+0.6	n/a	1/12	-4%	+125%	-4%
NCIS: New Orleans	2.5	18%	+47%	+0.8	+0.6	1/12	+0%	+178%	+0%
Limitless	1.4	24%	+8%	+0.1	+0.8	6/12		+56%	-18%
							CBS:	+120%	-6%
Hollywood Game Night	1.2	35%			n/a	1/1	-20%	+50%	+50%
Chicago Fire	1.8	31%	-10%	-0.2	-0.9	6/10	+6%	+125%	+125%
Chicago Med	1.9	29%	-10%	-0.2	-1.0	4/5		+171%	+12%
							NBC:	+113%	+48%
New Girl	1.4	53%			n/a	1/1	-18%	+180%	-22%
Grandfathered	1.0	43%	+11%	+0.1	n/a	3/10		+100%	-44%
Brooklyn Nine-Nine	1.2	56%	-29%	-0.5	-1.4	9/11	-20%	+140%	-20%
The Grinder	0.8	48%	+14%	+0.1	+0.3	6/10		+100%	-20%
							Fox:	+132%	-28%
The Flash (R)	0.3	33%						+0%	-40%
iZombie (R)	0.2	36%						+0%	-50%
							CW:	+0%	-44%
							Big5:	+99%	-12%

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.