Spotted Ratings, Thursday 7/12/12

WHAT MATTERS:

• Big Brother's back with a premiere that lost a couple ticks year-to-year but still topped the ratings for the four BB premieres before that. Seems pretty healthy. But it had considerable help from the highest-rated rerun for anything this summer to date in The Big Bang Theory. We're approaching a point where TBBT (especially at 8:30) is doing about twice as well in reruns as anything else on TV not named Family Guy.

• Two other big movers on broadcast: The Choice, whose season/series finale got crushed against a likely similar-skewing Big Brother; and easily a summer high from Rock Center, which may have benefited from a piece on Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes/Scientology. Even throwing out this result, though, the show has picked up some steam in its first several weeks of summer originals.

• On cable, Anger Management (1.0) took another big hit in week three, but MTV's Awkward. (0.8) had a nice bounce-back.

FULL TABLE:

	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Avg	Rank
Duets	4.73	1.0	+0%	n/a	-23%	6/8
Wipeout	5.74	1.8	+20%	-33%	+2%	2/4
Rookie Blue	4.73	1.2	-8%	+0%	-8%	5/6
The Big Bang Theory (SR)	7.99	2.3
The Big Bang Theory (SR)	9.03	2.8
Big Brother Thu	7.18	2.6	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1
Person of Interest (SR)	5.65	1.2
The Office (SR)	1.97	0.6
Parks and Recreation (SR)	1.58	0.5
Saving Hope	3.22	0.5	+25%	+0%	-17%	4/6
Rock Center (S)	5.33	1.2	+33%	+25%	+50%	1/6
Take Me Out	2.99	1.2	+0%	n/a	+3%	2/6
The Choice	3.04	1.2	-25%	+0%	-22%	5/6
The Vampire Diaries (SR)	0.78	0.3
The Vampire Diaries (SR)	0.74	0.3

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.
Last - A18-49 percent difference from previous episode.
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.

(R) - Repeat.
(SR) - Summer repeat. (for shows not currently in season)

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

More Spotted Ratings in the Index.