Spotted Ratings, Thursday 4/9/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The Big Bang Theory (3.5) and, mercifully, Bones (1.1) each picked up a tenth in finals, putting Bones even week-to-week. NBC's SVU repeat (0.9) and Dateline (1.1) inched down.

• CBS appears to have gotten back at least a bit of its huge drop last week in the 8/7c hour, but only a bit. The Big Bang Theory (3.4) was even with last week's final but is a usual adjust-up candidate, while The Odd Couple (2.1) was up by 0.2. A tryout at 9/8c didn't really do anything for Mom (2.0), whose lead-in wasn't that different from the usual Big Bang repeats.

• To celebrate 10 years of Grey's Anatomy, ABC re-aired the 2005 pilot at 8/7c (1.1) and an original episode (2.1) in the show's historic 9/8c timeslot. Though that actually matched last week's Scandal rating, it didn't stop American Crime (0.9) from taking yet another hit.

• And Fox may have had the night's worst news as Bones (1.0) is starting to get very ugly; it inched down to its second consecutive new low and couldn't even beat NBC's repeat of Law and Order: SVU (1.0).

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
Grey's Anatomy (R)	1.1	30%						-41%	-35%	1.3
Grey's Anatomy	2.1	36%	+11%	+0.2	n/a	16/19	-19%	+0%	-18%	2.4
American Crime	0.9	26%	-18%	-0.2	+0.0	6/6	n/a	-18%	-70%	1.2
							ABC:	-19%	-43%
The Big Bang Theory	3.5	30%	+3%	+0.1	n/a	19/20	-26%	+3%	-26%	3.6
The Odd Couple	2.1	27%	+11%	+0.2	+0.1	5/6	n/a	+11%	-16%	1.8
Mom	2.0	28%	+0%	+0.0	+0.3	16/19	n/a	+11%	-17%	2.0
The Big Bang Theory (R)	1.8	29%						-10%	+6%	1.9
Elementary	1.2	22%	+0%	+0.0	-0.2	12/19	-25%	-4%	-27%	1.5
							CBS:	+2%	-19%
Law and Order: SVU (R)	0.9	27%						-28%	-5%	1.1
The Blacklist (R)	0.8	26%						-50%	-6%	1.2
Dateline Thu	1.1	28%	-15%	-0.2	n/a	3/5	n/a	+57%	+0%	1.5
							NBC:	-21%	-3%
Bones	1.1	28%	+0%	+0.0	n/a	12/13	-31%	+0%	-21%	1.3
Backstrom	0.8	31%	+0%	+0.0	+0.0	9/10	n/a	+0%	-47%	1.2
							Fox:	+0%	-34%
The Flash (R)	0.3	39%						+20%	+0%	0.4
The Flash (R)	0.3	34%						+20%	-25%	0.4
							CW:	+20%	-14%
							Big5:	-9%	-28%

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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