Spotted Ratings, Monday 3/12/12

WHAT MATTERS:

• ABC wrapped up another season of The Bachelor. This is a show that typically has much larger spikes on finale night than this; last year, the show went from 3.1 in its penultimate ep to a 4.5 on finale night, a jump of about 45%, and almost all of the jumps historically are well over 20%. This was more like 16% up from last week. Consider that disappointing.

• It was pretty ugly for the few other originals on the first post-DST Monday, too. The Voice lost a full point from last week's battle rounds premiere and Smash was also back down by double digits (though that was a little more understandable with The Bachelor in the hour). Alcatraz suffered from its first-ever repeat House lead-in.

FULL TABLE:

Info				Show				Timeslot		TRUE
	Viewers	A18-49	Skew	Last	LeLa	Avg	Rank	Tavg	Lead
The Bachelor	9.23	2.9	40%	+16%	n/a	+16%	1/11	+10%	n/a	3.02
The Bachelor: After the Final Rose	9.87	3.3	43%	+14%	+0%	+30%	1/12	+41%	+14%	2.93
How I Met Your Mother (R)	5.74	1.9	42%	-5%	n/a	+22%	7/14	-55%	n/a	1.89
2 Broke Girls (R)	6.52	2.1	41%	+0%	-5%	-5%	7/12	-53%	+11%	2.20
Two and a Half Men (R)	7.65	2.1	35%	+0%	+0%	+2%	7/11	-61%	+0%	2.01
Mike and Molly (R)	7.27	1.9	33%	+6%	+0%	+8%	7/12	-54%	-10%	1.89
Hawaii Five-0 (R)	7.93	1.6	26%	+7%	+6%	+2%	4/9	-46%	-16%	1.33
The Voice	14.51	5.2	46%	-16%	n/a	-14%	6/6	+94%	n/a	5.60
Smash	7.04	2.4	44%	-11%	-16%	-14%	4/6	+62%	-54%	1.62
House (R)	3.61	1.1	39%	-8%	n/a	+1%	5/8	-57%	n/a	0.99
Alcatraz	5.07	1.6	40%	-11%	-42%	-35%	9/9	-39%	+45%	1.66
America's Next Top Model Spring (R)	0.90	0.3	43%	+0%	n/a	+0%	1/2	-51%	n/a	0.24
Hart of Dixie (R)	0.48	0.1	27%	-50%	+0%	-69%	12/12	-85%	-67%	0.06

KEY (click to expand)

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.
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.
Tavg - A18-49 percent difference from its timeslot's previous original entertainment average this season.
TRUE - True Strength, a metric 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.

Much more detail on these numbers at the New Daily Spotted Ratings page.

More Spotted Ratings in the Index.