The Breakdown: NBC Tuesday in 2015-16 (Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, The Voice, Best Time Ever)

It's time for a journey through the NBC Tuesday schedule in 2015-16...


fall

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	Avg
2014-15	The Voice Tue Fall		The Voice Tue Fall	Marry Me	About a Boy	Chicago Fire		Chicago Fire	127
	2014-15	183		183	89	71	120			120	127
	2014-15										183	183	89	71	120	120	127
	2014-15			183	183	80				80	120	120	127
2015-16	Best Time Ever		Best Time Ever	The Voice Tue Fall		The Voice Tue Fall	Chicago Fire		Chicago Fire	137 (+8%)
	2015-16	84 (-54%)		84.1006919849616	200 (+150%)		200 (+150%)	127 (+7%)			127 (+7%)	137.214344891564
VsAvg	-20%		-0.204351351524512	+67%		0.668322420261861	+13%		0.134395344277048	+22%
Rank	11/15		11/15	1/15		1/15	5/15		5/15	2/15

The Voice was technically the most frequent occupant in both the 8:00 and 9:00 hours, but in the interest of making the comparisons fair I shoehorned Best Time Ever into the 8:00 slot. Even in just the 8/7c episodes, Best Time did a little better than last year's fall comedies. The Voice and (after a somewhat slow start) Chicago Fire also showed high single digits improvement.

Chicago Med showed up very late in the fall and averaged a 139 in its first four episodes.

winter

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	Avg
2014-15	Parks and Recreation		Parks and Recreation	Marry Me	About a Boy	Chicago Fire		Chicago Fire	73
	2014-15	76		76	47	50	96			96	73
	2014-15										76	76	47	50	96	96	73
	2014-15			76	76	48				48	96	96	73
2015-16	Hollywood Game Night		Hollywood Game Night	Chicago Med		Chicago Med	Chicago Fire		Chicago Fire	101 (+38%)
	2015-16	77 (+1%)		77.2353293739443	108 (+124%)		108 (+124%)	119 (+24%)			119 (+24%)	101.264098512505
VsAvg	-9%		-0.0879482303118264	+11%		0.110332272086452	+12%		0.1172029382932	+5%
Rank	8/15		8/15	5/15		5/15	7/15		7/15	6/15

NBC's winter lineup produced one of the season's biggest year-to-year ratings gains. It was most stark at 9/8c, where the network had triple-digit improvement going from fractional comedies to mid-1's from ChiMed. Much of that rubbed off on Chicago Fire, which was up in raw numbers for most of its winter eps.

spring

Year	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30	Avg
2014-15	The Voice Tue Spring		The Voice Tue Spring	Undateable	One Big Happy	Chicago Fire		Chicago Fire	114
	2014-15	164		164	84	69	102			102	114
	2014-15										164	164	84	69	102	102	114
	2014-15			164	164	77				77	102	102	114
2015-16	The Voice Tue Spring		The Voice Tue Spring	Chicago Med		Chicago Med	Chicago Fire		Chicago Fire	125 (+9%)
	2015-16	149 (-9%)		149.165605821193	112 (+46%)		112 (+46%)	113 (+11%)			113 (+11%)	124.587013270062
VsAvg	+50%		0.497801282865431	+8%		0.0768176681310603	+2%		0.0207520912767452	+19%
Rank	4/15		4/15	6/15		6/15	7/15		7/15	3/15

The Voice slowed down quite a bit in the spring edition, but the big gains persisted in the last two hours.

The Shows

Name	Lo	Avg	Hi	y2y	Plus	Label	Plusy2y	Results
The Voice Tue Fall	2.1	2.80	3.7	-9%	192	big hit	+5%	detail
Best Time Ever	1.1	1.50	2.1		103	solid		detail
Hollywood Game Night	0.7	1.02	1.3	-20%	70	marginal	-8%	detail
The Voice Tue Spring*	1.6	2.34	3.1	-22%	161	big hit	-10%	detail
Chicago Med	1.4	1.71	2.2		117	solid		detail
Chicago Fire*	1.5	1.76	2.0	-3%	121	solid	+12%	detail

The Voice Tue Fall: Already updated.

Best Time Ever: Thanks to its first three weeks with huge lead-ins, it goes down as one of the highest-rated cancellations of the season, trailing only American Idol and Mike and Molly. Wasn't that bad even after the move to 8/7c, really.

Hollywood Game Night: Did its job as solid Voice filler in the winter, but was considerably diminished when it moved to Sunday 10/9c later in the season. Waiting on a grade here in case it airs its remaining episodes later this summer.

The Voice Tue Spring: Already updated.

Chicago Med: At least in season one, it was the weakest of the Chicago series, but still one of the biggest newbie wins of the season on any network. It gets to tackle Thursday next season.

Chicago Fire: Actually tempted to go lower here since the lead-in upgrade was so enormous, but it was still easily a career high in Plus. Grade: B+. It'll get yet another new dynamic with This Is Us next season. Even if that show's viral trailer translates to ratings, it seems hard to imagine it being a better companion than Med was.

The names in this last table link to the shows' War of 18-49 pages. Links with an asterisk(*) have been updated with the new info. Updates to younger shows will come later in the summer.

Check back tomorrow for this day's new Schedules Plus! Till then, you can refer to the old version.