Spotted Ratings, Monday 3/23/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The Voice (3.4), Mike and Molly (1.9), Scorpion (2.1) and the 8pm The Following (1.3) were up a tenth. The Night Shift (1.5) lost a tenth.

• Week two of Dancing with the Stars (2.0) had a nice post-premiere hold, matching the 2.0 for week two of the fall season but still about 10% behind last spring's pace. But the struggle continued for Castle (1.4), which shed another tenth.

• CBS had its first fully original lineup vs. the new DWTS season and saw a bit of an off night for comedies 2 Broke Girls (1.9) and Mike and Molly (1.8), while Scorpion (2.0) was even and NCIS: Los Angeles (1.6) was back to fairly normal after a high-end result a couple weeks ago.

• On Fox, two hours of The Following (1.2) inched up from the last couple weeks, perhaps illustrating just how far below local programming those repeat Gotham lead-ins have been.

• And NBC won with a fairly steady The Voice (3.3) and a preliminary new season high for The Night Shift (1.6). But we'll have to see if TNS can avoid a reprise of last week's two-tenth downward adjustment in finals.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Dancing with the Stars	2.0	18%	-5%	-0.1	n/a	2/2	-13%	-5%	-13%	2.1
Castle	1.4	22%	-7%	-0.1	-0.1	15/18	-22%	-7%	-22%	1.5
							ABC:	-5%	-16%
2 Broke Girls	1.9	33%	-10%	-0.2	n/a	13/15	-17%	+12%	-46%	2.0
Mike and Molly	1.9	31%	-5%	-0.1	+0.2	11/15	-5%	-5%	-17%	2.0
Scorpion	2.1	27%	+5%	+0.1	-0.2	12/19	n/a	+62%	+8%	2.1
NCIS: Los Angeles	1.6	22%	-11%	-0.2	+0.1	9/18	-33%	+45%	+39%	1.7
							CBS:	+32%	-7%
The Voice Mon	3.4	35%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	4/5	-8%	+0%	-8%	3.4
The Night Shift	1.5	35%	+15%	+0.2	+0.0	1/5	n/a	+15%	-46%	1.2
							NBC:	+2%	-19%
The Following	1.3	42%	+18%	+0.2	n/a	2/4	-7%	+117%	-7%	1.5
The Following	1.2	41%	-8%	-0.1	n/a	3/5	-14%	+9%	-11%	1.4
							Fox:	+47%	-9%
The Originals (R)	0.2	35%						-60%	-33%	0.3
Jane the Virgin (R)	0.2	49%						-60%	-33%	0.4
							CW:	-60%	-33%
							Big5:	+7%	-14%

KEY (click to expand)

A18-49 - Adults 18-49 rating. Percentage of US TV-owning adults 18-49 watching the program.
Skew - Percentage of adults 18-49 within the show's total viewership.
Last - A18-49 difference (percent and numerical) from the show's previous episode.
LeLa - A18-49 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 so far this season.
y2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the show's rating a year ago.
TLa - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one week ago.
Ty2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one year ago.
True - 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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