Spotted Ratings, Monday 9/29/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

SpotVault - The Voice (NBC) - Fall 2025 Ratings

The Voice

Mondays, 8/7c, NBC

SpotVault - The Golden Bachelor (ABC) - Fall 2025 Ratings

The Golden Bachelor

Wednesdays, 9/8c, ABC

SpotVault - The Floor (Fox) - Fall 2025 Ratings

The Floor

Wednesdays, 8/7c, Fox

SpotVault - The Amazing Race (CBS) - Fall 2025 Ratings

The Amazing Race

Wednesdays, 9:30/8:30c, CBS

SpotVault - Survivor (CBS) - Fall 2025 Ratings

Survivor

Wednesdays, 8/7c, CBS

SpotVault - Songs and Stories (NBC) - Summer 2025 Ratings

Songs and Stories

Tuesdays, 10/9c, NBC

SpotVault - Shark Tank (ABC) - 2025-26 Ratings

Shark Tank

Wednesdays, 10/9c, ABC

SpotVault - Name That Tune (Fox) - Fall 2025 Ratings

Name That Tune

Mondays, 8/7c, Fox

SpotVault - Murder in a Small Town (Fox) - Fall 2025 Ratings

Murder in a Small Town

Tuesdays, 8/7c, Fox

SpotVault - Law and Order: SVU (NBC) - 2025-26 Ratings

Law and Order: SVU

Thursdays, 9/8c, NBC

SpotVault - Law and Order (NBC) - Fall 2025 Ratings

Law and Order

Thursdays, 8/7c, NBC

SpotVault - LEGO Masters Jr. (Fox) - Summer 2025 Ratings

LEGO Masters Jr.

Mondays, 8/7c, Fox

SpotVault - High Potential (ABC) - Fall 2025 Ratings

High Potential

Tuesdays, 10/9c, ABC

SpotVault - Hell's Kitchen (Fox) - 2025-26 Ratings

Hell's Kitchen

Thursdays, 8/7c, Fox

SpotVault - Doc (Fox) - Fall 2025 Ratings

Doc

Tuesdays, 9/8c, Fox

SpotVault - Dancing with the Stars (ABC) - Fall 2025 Ratings

Dancing with the Stars

Tuesdays, 8/7c, ABC

SpotVault - Celebrity Weakest Link (Fox) - Fall 2025 Ratings

Celebrity Weakest Link

Mondays, 9/8c, Fox

SpotVault - Brilliant Minds (NBC) - Fall 2025 Ratings

Brilliant Minds

Mondays, 10/9c, NBC

SpotVault - 99 to Beat (Fox) - Fall 2025 Ratings

99 to Beat

Wednesdays, 9/8c, Fox

Spotted Ratings, Sunday 9/28/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted. The Fox animation Sunday lineup returned with the same four shows as last fall: The Simpsons, Universal Basic Guys, Krapopolis and Bob's Burgers. (Krapopolis and Bob's swapped spots in the 9/8c hour.) Other returnees included CBS' 60 Minutes and ABC's America's Funniest Home Videos.

Spotted Ratings, Friday 9/26/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted. ABC's Celebrity Wheel of Fortune made the move to Friday.

Spotted Ratings, Thursday 9/25/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted. NBC's Law and Order and Law and Order: SVU returned, as did Fox's Hell's Kitchen and Special Forces: World's Toughest Test. CBS gave The Amazing Race a special Thursday premiere, with its return to Wednedsay coming next week.

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 9/24/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted. Premiere Wednesday featured a glut of unscripted programming with CBS debuting the 49th season of Survivor, ABC moving The Golden Bachelor and Shark Tank to the night, and Fox going with game shows The Floor and 99 to Beat, while NBC finished its America's Got Talent season.

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 9/23/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted. Fox had the returns of Canadian co-production Murder in a Small Town and sophomore drama Doc (replaying the episode that previewed on Sunday over a week ago).

Spotted Ratings, Monday 9/22/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted. NBC opened the 2025-26 season with the returns of The Voice and sophomore drama Brilliant Minds.

A18-49+: Networks Update! (2019-25)

Happy Premiere Week!

Last week I went back and updated some of my new show metrics, and today, with a new season dawning, I'm gonna take a look at how the network race has shaken out over that same period. I talked extensively about the 1999-01 seasons for the networks when introducing that data, so I will just leave it to the six seasons that have happened since the last update (2019-25). Here's the full table of the networks' original, non-sports series averages in every regular season:

Spotted Ratings, Sunday 9/21/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted. Fox previewed game show 99 to Beat, which will regularly air on Wednesdays after The Floor.

Spotted Ratings, Friday 9/19/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

Spotted Ratings, Thursday 9/18/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 9/17/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers to come.

Above based on preliminary adults 18-49 ratings unless otherwise noted. Full table forthcoming!

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Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 9/16/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted. ABC got a jump on premiere week with the returns of two of its brightest spots from last season, Dancing with the Stars and sophomore drama High Potential.

Spotted Ratings, Monday 9/15/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted. Fox opened the pre-premiere week with its fall game show lineup of Name That Tune and newbie Celebrity Weakest Link.

A18-49+: New Shows Update! (1999-01, 2019-25)

Not sure if anyone remembers the good old days when I used to do a post evaluating the strength of each class of broadcast scripted newbies, but it has been a minute. My last one of these updates was for the 2018-19 season, plus I've since added two seasons of data on the back end (1999-00 and 2000-01).

I was inspired to go back and take a look at these numbers because while doing The Breakdown, as I got the impression that the new class of 2024-25 was one of the more promising ones in recent years. It was a decent one historically, but what really stands out is just how rotten the 2019-24 period was for broadcast development, and how drastically the quantity of total newbies has fallen. COVID and the writers' strike played big roles in that, but it's also worth wondering if it's an irreversible structural problem in an era of incredibly fractured attention. However, 2024-25 offered some hope that the big four can still do at least somewhat better than they've been doing.

I'm gonna quickly catch up on all these missing seasons, not yapping quite as much as I did in past editions, though I'm gonna zero out some of the 1999-00 stuff because I don't think my number of total 1999-00 shows is reliable. You can combine this post with the old one for a complete record of the era (though I haven't updated the old post yet because of the logistical issues with the 1999-00 season).

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Spotted Ratings, Sunday 9/14/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted. Fox sophomore Doc got a post-NFL preview. The episode will re-air in the show's regular slot on September 23 and the next new episode will air on September 30.

Spotted Ratings, Friday 9/12/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

Spotted Ratings, Thursday 9/11/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

A18-49+ Season Comparison Chart (thru 2024-25)

This is an interactive chart allowing you to compare seasonal A18-49+ ratings (fall 1999 through spring 2025) for up to three different shows. It includes the 167 broadcast scripted shows with at least a Career A18-49+, the same shows included on the Career A18-49+ Sortable Table.

Career A18-49+ Sortable Table (thru 2024-25)

 This is the Career A18-49+ sortable table, with A18-49+ numbers that can be used to evaluate the full run of a series. This includes Career A18-49+, the sum of each individual season's historical-adjusted A18-49 rating, as well as how many times each show went over some of the A18-49+ label thresholds.

A few quick notes about what's in here:

• This includes all 167 broadcast scripted series with a career A18-49+ total of 300 or higher. Unlike in previous years, that means a handful of netlet shows are in the mix (though of course they can be filtered out easily). The 45 "hit for CW" and 35 "solid for CW" labels are applied to the "hit" and "solid" counts for those shows.
• This number will be incomplete for shows that aired before 1999, but to help account for this, the number of missing seasons is included in parentheses under the "Seasons" column. You can also filter in or out the shows that have missing seasons, as well as the shows still "active" (and thus still adding to their counts).

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 9/10/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

The War of 18-49, Post-2021 Fox Scripted: Animal Control, Doc, Krapopolis and more!

Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing Fox scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages.



Jump to a show: Animal Control | Doc | Going Dutch | Grimsburg | Krapopolis | Murder in a Small Town | Universal Basic Guys

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 9/9/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

The War of 18-49, Post-2021 NBC Scripted: Brilliant Minds, Happy's Place, St. Denis Medical and more!

Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing NBC scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages.



Jump to a show: Brilliant Minds | Happy's Place | St. Denis Medical | The Hunting Party

Spotted Ratings, Monday 9/8/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

The War of 18-49, Post-2021 CBS Scripted: Fire Country, Matlock, Tracker and more!

Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing CBS scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages.



Jump to a show: Elsbeth | Fire Country | Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage | Matlock | NCIS: Origins | NCIS: Sydney | Tracker | Watson

Spotted Ratings, Sunday 9/7/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

The War of 18-49, Post-2021 ABC Scripted: High Potential, Shifting Gears, Will Trent

Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing ABC scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages.



Jump to a show: High Potential | Shifting Gears | Will Trent

Spotted Ratings, Friday 9/5/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

Spotted Ratings, Thursday 9/4/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

Schedules Plus & The Breakdown Index for 2024-25

The Breakdown
The Breakdown is a comprehensive look at the broadcast networks' performance in the most recent season, comparing the season's historical-adjusted ratings with the previous season (and the historical averages).

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 9/3/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

The Breakdown: CW Sunday in 2024-25

It's time for a journey through the CW Sunday schedule in 2024-25...

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 9/2/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

Spotted Ratings, Monday 9/1/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

The Breakdown: Fox Sunday in 2024-25 (The Simpsons, The Great North, Krapopolis and more!)

It's time for a journey through the Fox Sunday schedule in 2024-25...

Spotted Ratings, Sunday 8/31/25

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.