Spotted Ratings, Weekend Roundup 8/8-8/10/14

WHAT MATTERS:

•  A rain delay pushed the final round of the PGA Championship two hours into CBS primetime on the East Coast. Though the full day averaged a 1.7, it averaged a 2.5 in the last two hours, peaking at a 2.9 in the 9:00 half-hour and hitting a 2.7 at 9:30 leading into 60 Minutes. Big Brother (2.0) was even despite a 10:00 start time on the East Coast.

• It was a bit of an atypical Sunday with bigger CBS competition and the Teen Choice Awards on Fox, but it seems ABC's Rising Star (0.7) has officially entered legitimate dud territory with a two-tenth drop this week.

• The biggest notable from the weekend in cable was a big week two drop for Hell on Wheels (0.35) on Saturday. It went from a nearly even year-to-year premiere to over 25% behind last season's episode two. And for a little more fun-with-tiny-numbers, WGN's Manhattan (0.09) followed last week's 74% drop with an 80% bounce-back in week three (though this still left it at half of the premiere number).

Spotted Ratings, Sunday 7/27/14

WHAT MATTERS:

• ABC added a second hour of Wipeout (0.8) to lead off their Sunday, and it proceeded to bring the two-hour period well behind last week's lineup with strong repeater America's Funniest Home Videos leading off. That helped Rising Star (0.9) move down another notch. Way to go, ABC.

• WGN America's Manhattan (0.18) was better-reviewed than its network's first scripted foray Salem (which premiered nearly three times higher at 0.51 in April), but the period concept was clearly not as appealing to the masses in the current TV environment. Cable's two strongest newbies this summer, TNT's The Last Ship (1.1) and FX's The Strain (1.0), steadied week-to-week, while the second episode of Lifetime's The Lottery (0.21) went completely off the map.