Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 8/21/12

WHAT MATTERS:

• The late-summer struggles continue for America's Got Talent, shedding a couple more ticks and now down more than 20% year-to-year. Encores of the Olympics previews of Go On and Animal Practice did a little worse than the week-ago Stars Earn Stripes repeat (which got a 1.5 at 10:00 and a 1.2 at 10:30).

• Free of TNT competition, White Collar (1.1) on USA hit a season high.

FULL TABLE:

	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Avg	Rank
The Middle (SR)	3.09	0.8
Last Man Standing (SR)	2.78	0.8
Happy Endings (SR)	2.11	0.8
Apartment 23 (SR)	1.70	0.6
NY Med	4.13	1.0	+0%	+0%	+3%	4/7
NCIS (SR)	8.09	1.2
NCIS: Los Angeles (SR)	7.15	1.1
The Mentalist (SR)	6.29	1.1
America's Got Talent Tue	9.90	2.5	-11%	n/a	-16%	13/13
Go On (R)	4.76	1.4
Animal Practice (R)	3.55	1.0
MasterChef (R)	3.32	1.3
MasterChef Tue	5.99	2.4	+0%	-38%	+6%	3/9
Hart of Dixie (SR)	0.81	0.3
The LA Complex (S)	0.58	0.3	+50%	+0%	+50%	1/6

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.