Spotted Ratings, Monday 6/1/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: So You Think You Can Dance (1.3) adjusted up, while The Island (1.1) went down to drop below last week's premiere.

• ABC's The Whispers (1.5) had the most promising start for a scripted series this summer to date, edging the highest rating Mistresses had in two years in the timeslot. It was up 25% vs. both of the Mistresses premieres. It got some nice help from The Bachelorette (1.9), which surged by three tenths from last week's Memorial Day rating.

• Earlier in the night came the start of a three-way smackdown between two-hour reality tentpoles. The winner was NBC's American Ninja Warrior (2.0), up two tenths vs. last week's premiere and above the year-ago evening as well, but The Bachelorette (1.9) was a very close second (and also up a notch year-to-year). The closest thing to a loser was Fox's veteran So You Think You Can Dance (1.2), whose first ever Monday season opened down 25% vs. last year's premiere. But it did hold off CBS repeats of 2 Broke Girls (1.1), Mike and Molly (1.2) and Scorpion (1.0) for third place.

• Also on NBC, 10/9c newbie The Island (1.2) matched last week's premiere, which aired out of a lower Ninja Warrior.

FULL TABLE:

Info		Show						Timeslot		True
	A18-49	Skew	Last		LeLa	Rank	y2y	TLa	Ty2y
The Bachelorette	1.9	37%	+19%	+0.3	n/a	2/4	+6%	+41%	+6%	2.1
The Whispers	1.5	34%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	n/a	-6%	+25%	1.7
							ABC:	+23%	+10%
2 Broke Girls (R)	1.1	24%						+0%	+10%	1.3
Mike and Molly (R)	1.2	25%						+20%	+20%	1.5
Scorpion (R)	1.0	22%						+25%	-13%	1.3
NCIS: Los Angeles (R)	0.9	17%						+29%	-22%	1.3
							CBS:	+20%	-8%
American Ninja Warrior	2.0	37%	+11%	+0.2	n/a	1/2	+5%	+11%	+29%	2.2
The Island	1.1	38%	-8%	-0.1	+0.2	2/2	n/a	-8%	-41%	1.3
							NBC:	+6%	+3%
So You Think You Can Dance	1.3	41%	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	-19%	+86%	-27%	1.5
							Fox:	+86%	-27%
The Originals (R)	0.2	45%						-33%	-60%	0.3
Jane the Virgin (R)	0.2	46%						-33%	-43%	0.4
							CW:	-33%	-53%
							Big5:	+23%	-9%

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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