Spotted Ratings, Saturday 9/24/11

FYI, I think I'll wait on Saturday posts most weeks until I see the complete finals on Wednesday. There's one interesting/strong program (football) and its ratings are usually tough to read based on preliminaries. I may make exceptions in some interesting cases (like Rules of Engagement's Saturday premiere in two weeks) but the interesting cases on Saturday are few and far between.

WHAT MATTERS:

• ABC dominated with their LSU/West Virginia football game scoring a 2.3 demo.

• Several new dramas got encore runs. It was Person of Interest over Harry's Law at 8/7c and Unforgettable beating Prime Suspect at 9/8c.

FULL TABLE:

	Viewers	A18-49	Share	Skew	Last	Lead	LeLa	Avg	Rank	TRUE
Sports: Saturday Night Football Pregame	4.9	1.5	6	39%	+0%	n/a	n/a	+0%	1/3	1.77
Sports: Saturday Night Football	6.5	2.3	7	45%	-30%	+53%	+0%	-23%	3/3	2.43
Person of Interest (R)	4.0	0.9	3	29%	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	0.90
Unforgettable (R)	5.0	1.0	3	26%	n/a	+11%	n/a	n/a	1/1	0.96
48 Hours Mystery	4.9	1.2	4	31%	n/a	+20%	n/a	n/a	1/1	1.32
Harry's Law (R)	4.0	0.6	2	19%	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	0.53
Prime Suspect (R)	4.8	0.7	2	19%	n/a	+17%	n/a	n/a	1/1	0.70
Law & Order: SVU (R)	4.7	0.8	2	22%	n/a	+14%	n/a	n/a	1/1	0.87
Cops	3.0	1.0	3	43%	+0%	n/a	n/a	+0%	1/3	1.11
Cops (R)	3.3	1.1	4	43%	+0%	+10%	+0%	+5%	1/3	1.19
American Dad! (SR)	1.7	0.8	2	60%	n/a	-27%	n/a	n/a	1/1	0.63
The Cleveland Show (SR)	1.9	0.9	3	61%	n/a	+13%	n/a	n/a	1/1	0.85

KEY (with much more detail at the New Daily Spotted Ratings page):

Viewers - The total number of viewers (age 2+, in millions) that watched the program.
A18-49 - Adults 18-49 rating. Percentage of US TV-owning adults 18-49 watching the program.
Share - Adults 18-49 share. Percentage of US TV-watching adults 18-49 watching the program.
Skew - Percentage of the total audience that falls in the 18-49 demo.
Last - A18-49 percent difference from previous episode.
Lead - A18-49 percent difference from lead-in program.
LeLa - A18-49 percent difference between the show's lead-in and its lead-in for the previous episode.
Avg - A18-49 percent difference from the show's average demo for previous original episodes this season.
Rank - The A18-49 rating's rank among the show's episodes that have aired so far this season.
TRUE - True Strength, a metric developed last summer that adjusts the A18-49 rating for overall viewing levels, competition and lead-in.

(R) - Repeat.

More Spotted Ratings in the Index.