Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 10/18/11: Man Down!

WHAT MATTERS:

• ABC's Last Man Standing dropped by 14% from last week's one-hour average, but the drop is likely to Truly be less because of greater competition and the premiere benefiting from the 8:30 viewing levels. It was down just 9% from Last Man's average in the 8:00 half-hour last week. Consider this fairly encouraging.

• Leading out was the unimpressive series premiere of Man Up!, which lost 23% of Last Man Standing's demo. On series premiere night, that's not good.

• Most other programs from 8-10 dropped a bit against Fox's special Tuesday edition of The X Factor, which did significantly better than the special Sunday episode a couple days prior. The Dancing with the Stars results dropped most, but that also had a much weaker lead-in to deal with.

• Without baseball competition at 10:00, those programs were mostly on the rise, with Unforgettable up a couple tenths and Body of Proof picking up one.

FULL TABLE:

	Viewers	A18-49	Share	Skew	Last	Lead	LeLa	Avg	Rank	TRUE
Last Man Standing	10.34	3.1	9	38%	-14%	n/a	n/a	-14%	2/2	3.10
Man Up!	7.78	2.4	6	39%	n/a	-23%	n/a	n/a	1/1	2.06
Dancing with the Stars Tue	13.80	2.6	6	24%	-21%	+8%	-33%	-13%	5/5	2.17
Body of Proof	9.27	1.9	5	26%	+6%	-27%	-21%	-3%	3/5	1.46
NCIS	19.41	3.9	11	26%	-3%	n/a	n/a	-7%	5/5	3.89
NCIS: Los Angeles	15.35	3.4	8	28%	+3%	-13%	-3%	-2%	3/5	2.72
Unforgettable	11.88	2.5	6	27%	+9%	-26%	+3%	-2%	2/5	1.92
The Biggest Loser	5.17	1.9	5	47%	-5%	n/a	n/a	-13%	5/5	1.65
Parenthood	5.03	2.0	5	51%	-5%	+5%	-5%	-6%	5/6	1.64
X Factor Wed	10.39	3.9	10	48%	+15%	n/a	n/a	-2%	4/5	3.63
90210	1.41	0.8	2	73%	+0%	n/a	n/a	+3%	2/6	0.75
Ringer	1.81	0.8	2	57%	+14%	+0%	+0%	-7%	4/6	0.66

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. (Note: these are PRELIMINARY TRUE calculations. Finals come next week.)

(R) - Repeat.

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