Spotted Ratings, Monday 5/21/12: Burning Down the House

WHAT MATTERS:

• For the second time in nine days, a former megahit member from the class of 2004-05 signed off for good as House hit its highest number since January 30 (the week before The Voice premiered). That was well above average for this season and a nice 32% ahead of its penultimate episode but still well behind the year-ago season finale. Leading in was a House retrospective special which got about the same ratings as a typical late spring House original.

• Most other networks are already in summer mode. NBC got a pretty good start out of G4 import American Ninja Warrior, which did significantly better than in its one-off tryout last summer (1.7 on August 22, 2011). Week two of America's Got Talent was down double digits in a one-hour form.

• The final Dancing with the Stars performance was up despite airing for just one hour, and The Bachelorette had a smaller than usual post-premiere drop.

FULL TABLE:

Info				Show				Timeslot		TRUE
	Viewers	A18-49	Skew	Last	LeLa	Avg	Rank	Tavg	Lead
Dancing with the Stars Mon	16.84	2.9	22%	+12%	n/a	-3%	5/10	+4%	n/a	2.99
The Bachelorette	7.53	2.4	41%	-8%	+12%	-8%	2/2	-5%	-17%	2.08
How I Met Your Mother (R)	4.06	1.3	41%	-24%	n/a	-16%	11/18	-67%	n/a	1.14
2 Broke Girls (R)	4.62	1.6	44%	-6%	-24%	-24%	13/17	-62%	+23%	1.64
Two and a Half Men (R)	7.23	2.0	35%	+0%	-6%	-2%	10/15	-60%	+25%	1.87
Mike and Molly (R)	6.29	1.6	33%	+45%	+82%	-1%	11/18	-59%	-20%	1.40
Clash of the Commercials	5.96	1.3	28%	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	-55%	-19%	1.18
America's Got Talent Mon	9.66	3.2	42%	-14%	n/a	-14%	2/2	+11%	n/a	3.33
American Ninja Warrior	6.20	2.4	50%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	-5%	-25%	2.05
House (R)	6.27	2.1	43%	+91%	n/a	+93%	1/9	-13%	n/a	2.08
House	8.72	2.9	43%	+32%	+11%	+15%	4/22	+22%	+38%	2.75
One Tree Hill (R)	0.57	0.3	67%	+0%	n/a	+0%	1/2	-49%	n/a	0.23
One Tree Hill (R)	0.53	0.2	48%	-33%	+0%	-33%	3/3	-69%	-33%	0.16

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.

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