Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 3/15/16

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: Crowded #1 (1.7) and The Flash (0.3) adjusted down.

• NBC handed out yet another post-The Voice preview, this time to the new sitcom Crowded with a 1.8 demo at 10:00, dropping to a 1.4 at 10:30. This puts it closer to the preview ratings of promising Superstore (2.0/1.6) compared with dud Telenovela (1.4/0.9), both of which aired after The Voice episodes that had very similar ratings to last night (2.6/2.9). At this level, Crowded does look stronger than The Carmichael Show, which it's slated to follow on Sundays going forward. But since this was a series premiere night, it may not be this solid beyond this night. It'll be interesting to see if this is enough to make NBC rethink the sitcoms' arrangement on Sundays.

• Week two for ABC's new Tuesday was a big step down, with Fresh Off the Boat (1.1) getting slammed three tenths by DST and the return of NCIS in the hour. And Of Kings and Prophets (0.5) fell to massive disaster levels by week two. In the middle were The Real O'Neals (1.0) and Agents of SHIELD (1.0), which had more modest drops but were still at new lows.

• CBS held up quite well against DST, with NCIS (2.0), NCIS: New Orleans (1.6) and Limitless (1.1) all matching their last originals. The 300th episode of the NCIS mothership may have helped.

• DST was unwelcome news for New Girl (1.0), which hit a new season low by two tenths. The 9:00 shows Brooklyn Nine-Nine (0.8) and The Grinder (0.6) tied their season lows from two weeks ago, with Grandfathered (0.5) in repeat mode at 8:30.

• And the CW continued its Tuesday hiatus with repeats of The Flash (0.4) and iZombie (0.2).

SpotVault - Of Kings and Prophets (ABC) - 2015-16 Ratings

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 3/8/16

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: Limitless (1.1) got a much-welcome upward adjustment to avoid a rounded new low. Among the repeats, NCIS: New Orleans (1.2) adjusted up and The Flash (0.3) adjusted down.

• NBC had a sensational start from new reality series Little Big Shots (2.9), which retained the vast majority of its lead-in from The Voice (a 3.1 overall and 3.5 in the 9:30 half-hour). Only Supergirl (3.1) and fellow Voice lead-out Blindspot (3.1) have started better among series premieres this season. It's settling in on Sunday at 8/7c later this week, which will be a much tougher timeslot, but it's hard to see it not doing good business after this kind of initial sampling.

• ABC revamped its Tuesday to mixed results (if we're being kind):
• There was improvement in the 8/7c hour, where Fresh Off the Boat (1.4) swung up. The Real O'Neals (1.1) had a pretty modest start at 8:30 but at least beat all the 2016 episodes of The Muppets.
• The return of Agents of SHIELD (1.1) at 9/8c also improved on what the network had been doing with Agent Carter this winter, but it was a new low for the show by two tenths.
• And there was no real interest in long-delayed newbie Of Kings and Prophets (0.8), which started even below Wicked City and could be in pull-me-now territory in short order.

• On CBS, only Limitless (1.0) was original, but it dropped to yet another new low as NCIS: New Orleans (1.1) and NCIS (1.1) went into repeats.

• Fox was original in just the first hour, as the so-called 100th episode of New Girl (1.2) was even as it welcomed back Zooey Deschanel. Grandfathered was also flat at 0.8, while repeats of Brooklyn Nine-Nine (0.6) and The Grinder (0.5) went low.

• The CW had repeats of The Flash (0.4) and iZombie (0.3).

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