Spotted Ratings, Thursday 6/20/13

WHAT MATTERS:

• The NBA Finals took over TV one last time with another 25% game-to-game bump for Game 7, and it posted the biggest viewership/demo for anything since the Academy Awards four months ago. Still, it did go 7% below the last Finals Game 7 in 2010 (an 11.4 for Celtics/Lakers).

• This game went 55% ahead of last Thursday's Game 4. Most damaged by that additional competition were the CBS repeats, all down double digits from last week, and USA's combo of Burn Notice (0.9) and Graceland (0.7). And FX had an almost invisible two-episode return from comedy Wilfred (0.3/0.3). That was about even with the low-rated last couple episodes of last season, but it was down nearly half from last season's average and miles behind the Anger Management-inflated year-ago premiere (1.2).

• A couple quick programming notes about Spotted Ratings' Week Off after the bump:
• I'm out of town next week (6/23-6/30) so I'm taking the week off from daily posts. They'll be back the following week, with a post covering the last two weeks of each day of the week.
• But I've been furiously working ahead, so most of the other regular programming will be on next week: War of 18-49, Top 10 of the Last 10, A18-49+ column. Plus there will be several The Questions as well as a few special posts looking back on some of my predictions from last season. So this will actually be one of the heavier content weeks of the summer.
• Most of the above things will not appear the following week (7/1-7/7) as I catch up on everything missed while on vacay. There will likely be an A18-49+ column, though it may not be exactly on Monday 7/1. But the War and Top 10 are definitely sitting out that week.

FULL TABLE:

Info			Show				Timeslot		True2
	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night	3.74	1.2	+0%	n/a	1/7	n/a	+9%	+20%	1.55
NBA Countdown	6.56	2.5	+25%	+0%	1/7	n/a	+25%	+14%	3.40
NBA Finals	26.32	10.6	+25%	+25%	1/7	n/a	+55%	+49%	11.97
The Big Bang Theory (SR)	7.66	1.6					-24%	-27%	2.05
Two and a Half Men (SR)	5.80	1.2					-14%	-43%	1.59
Person of Interest (SR)	5.77	0.7					-26%	-50%	1.11
Elementary (SR)	5.19	0.8					-20%	-27%	1.32
Parks and Recreation (SR)	2.13	0.6					+20%	-25%	0.78
Parks and Recreation (SR)	1.66	0.6					+20%	-25%	1.01
The Office (SR)	1.36	0.5					+0%	+0%	0.93
Hannibal	5.19	0.8	+14%	+0%	11/12	n/a	+14%	+7%	1.36
Hell's Kitchen	5.19	2.0	+0%	n/a	7/17	-20%	+0%	+67%	2.59
Does Someone Have to Go?	2.20	0.9	+0%	+0%	4/5	n/a	+0%	-42%	1.26
The Vampire Diaries (SR)	0.90	0.4					+14%	+33%	0.54
Beauty and the Beast (SR)	0.57	0.2					+0%	+0%	0.30

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.
Rank - The A18-49 rating's rank among the show's episodes that have aired so far this season.
y2y - The show's A18-49 rating compared to its rating a year ago.
TLa - The show's A18-49 rating compared to the network's rating in the timeslot one week ago.
Ty2y - The show's A18-49 rating compared to the network's rating in the timeslot one year ago.
True2 - The second edition of True Strength, a metric that adjusts the A18-49 rating for overall viewing levels, competition and lead-in. PRELIMINARY CALCULATION. For finals, see SpotVault.

(R) - Repeat.

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

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