Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 12/29/20

FINALS UPDATE: To Tell the Truth (R) (0.6) adjusted up while Tell Me a Story (0.0) adjusted down.

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 12/22/20

FINALS UPDATE: The Bachelorette (1.4, +0.2), The Price Is Right Special (0.8), Let's Make a Deal Special (0.7), The Voice (R) (0.5) and NEXT (0.3) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 12/15/20

FINALS UPDATE: The Bachelorette (1.1), Cosmos: Possible Worlds (0.3) and NEXT (0.2) adjusted up.

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 12/8/20

FINALS UPDATE: The Bachelorette (1.2), Big Sky (0.6) and Thursday Night Football (3.9, +1.1) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Fox dominated with a special Tuesday NFL game (2.8), and nobody held up well against it. Big Sky saw its three-week run of 0.7's come to a crashing halt, with a drop to 0.5 in week four following The Bachelorette (1.2/1.1).
  

• It was a dreadful night on CBS, where NCIS (0.7), FBI (0.6) and FBI: Most Wanted (0.5) were all down multiple tenths vs. their last episodes two weeks ago. NBC finished out season one of Transplant with the last two hours (0.4/0.4) after The Voice (0.7).
  

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 12/1/20

FINALS UPDATE: The Bachelorette (1.2), Let's Make a Deal Special (0.6), FBI: Most Wanted (R) (0.4), The Voice (0.8), Weakest Link (R) (0.6), Transplant (0.5) and Cosmos: Possible Worlds (0.3) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• ABC's Big Sky (0.7) continued to hang on, posting its third straight 0.7 following The Bachelorette (1.2/1.1).
  

• CBS got a nice showing from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1.1), within a tenth of last year's performance on the year-ago evening (1.2), and it led into a Let's Make a Deal primetime special (0.5). NBC's The Voice (0.7) took a hard hit in its first live results show.
  

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 11/17/20

FINALS UPDATE: The Bachelorette (1.4), Big Sky (0.7), FBI (0.9) and NEXT (0.3) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• ABC launched new David E. Kelley drama Big Sky (0.6) at 10/9c with less than one-half retention after The Bachelorette (1.3). It was an improvement on recent occupants of the post-Bachelorette slot, like last week's CMA preview and random repeats, but starting at this rating means it could well get to those levels.
  

• CBS' Tuesday drama trio of NCIS (0.9), FBI (0.8) and FBI: Most Wanted (0.6), with the first two coming back way behind where we last saw them (though they wrapped early in the spring when viewing was still very high). NCIS was actually at a new series low if it stays there in finals, while FBI and Most Wanted were a little more in line with what they had been doing in the pre-pandemic part of the season.
  

• NBC continued to hold its own with The Voice (1.1) even and This Is Us (1.2) inching down again, while Transplant (0.4) fell another tenth at 10/9c.
  

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 11/10/20

FINALS UPDATE: The Bachelorette (1.7) and NEXT (0.3) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Back on Tuesday after the election, The Bachelorette (1.6/1.5) was in line with its Thursday episode last week, which was good enough for a surge vs. its Tuesday episode two weeks ago. But a CMA Awards preview at 10/9c (0.4) could not take advantage of the lead-in.
  

• Despite a stronger Bachelorette, NBC held up well with The Voice (1.1) actually growing vs. two weeks ago and This Is Us (1.3) down just a tenth from its two-hour premiere. Transplant (0.5) was back for the first time in three weeks and dropped a tenth.
  

• This night also featured the return of Fox's Cosmos: Possible Worlds (0.3) and NEXT (0.2), CBS' The FBI Declassified (0.3) and the CW's Swamp Thing (0.1) and Tell Me a Story (0.1).
  

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 10/27/20

FINALS UPDATE: The Price Is Right Special (0.8) and World Series (3.4, +0.7) adjusted up while The Conners (R) (0.4) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• NBC's This Is Us (1.4/1.3) made a solid two-hour return to the broadcast stage, building significantly on its The Voice (1.0) lead-in, though TIU was still down 25-30% from last year's premiere and also down from the spring's COVID-boosted finale (1.7).

• That was enough to edge NBC ahead of ABC with a rebounding The Bachelorette (1.2/1.3) and comedy repeats (0.5/0.3), though Fox reigned supreme with the sixth and final game of the World Series (3.1/2.6/2.4).

• CBS also got into the mix on a busy night with two hours of its daytime game shows (0.7/0.6) in primetime, though they weren't a great match with The FBI Declassified (0.3). And the CW preliminarily edged back up to 0.2 with Swamp Thing.
  

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 10/20/20

FINALS UPDATE: The Bachelorette (1.2), The Voice (1.1) and World Series (2.4, +0.6) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Week two of The Bachelorette (1.1/1.0) and the two-hour Tuesday premiere of The Voice (1.0/1.1) went head-to-head and were in a dead heat in adults 18-49. The former dropped significantly from last week's premiere, but still demolished The Voice in adults 18-34 (1.1 to 0.5). The Voice helped lift Transplant (0.6) to a new series high at 10/9c.
  

• Against the reality clash, Fox led the way with Game 1 of the World Series (2.1/1.7/1.5), but it was down significantly from last year's 2.9 prelim for Game 1. The CW's Swamp Thing had a preliminary 0.1 for the first time (after adjusting down to it last week).
  

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 10/13/20

FINALS UPDATE: The Bachelorette (1.4), Celebrity Family Feud (0.7), NFL Football (3.0, +0.3) and Ellen's Game of Games (0.5) adjusted up while Swamp Thing (0.1) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• ABC's The Bachelorette had a good start to its fall 2020 run with a 1.3 in A18-49 and a whooping 1.2/1.3 in adults 18-34, in line with its summer 2019 premiere (1.4 A18-49, 1.2 A18-34). A special Celebrity Family Feud (0.6) rounded out the night at 10/9c.
  

• CBS dominated with another virus-delayed NFL game in primetime (2.8/2.7) leading into The FBI Declassified (0.9) which started just after 10:00 ET.
  

• Against way more Tuesday competition, it was a brutal night for the NBC lineup, with Weakest Link (0.6) and Ellen's Game of Games (0.4) each down multiple tenths and Transplant (0.3) also falling again. Fox's Cosmos: Possible Worlds and NEXT each held at 0.3, while the CW got a second week at 0.2 out of Swamp Thing.
  

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 9/29/20

FINALS UPDATE: ABC Presidential Debate (3.2, +0.6), ABC Presidential Debate Analysis (2.1), CBS Presidential Debate (1.4, +0.3), CBS Presidential Debate Analysis (1.0), NBC Presidential Debate (2.7, +0.5), NBC Presidential Debate Analysis (1.8, +0.2) and Fox Presidential Debate (1.6, +0.3) adjusted up while 20/20 Special (1.1), Weakest Link (1.2) and Cosmos: Possible Worlds (0.4) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers posted.

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 9/22/20

FINALS UPDATE: Dancing with the Stars (1.1) and Love Island (0.5) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Week two of Dancing with the Stars (1.0) got moved to Tuesday due to the NFL simulcast on Monday. It was down at least a couple tenths from its breakout premiere, but still drastically up on a year-to-year basis (vs. a 0.8 for week two of last season). It led into a Time100 special (0.4) at 10/9c.
  

• Fox continued to roll out its modified fall schedule with two hours of the documentary series Cosmos: Possible Worlds (0.4/0.3), which had been initially slated to air as a Fox/Nat Geo simulcast well over a year ago before eventually airing on only Nat Geo six months ago. NBC began its finale week for America's Got Talent (0.8/0.7) leading into week four of resilient medical drama Transplant (0.5).
  

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 9/15/20

FINALS UPDATE: Big Brother (1.1) adjusted up while The Conners (R) (0.2) adjusted down.

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 9/8/20

FINALS UPDATE: Love Island (0.4) and America's Got Talent (0.8) adjusted up.

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 9/1/20

FINALS UPDATE: NBA Playoffs (1.2, +0.2) and America's Got Talent (0.8) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• NBC premiered medical drama Transplant (0.4), a Canadian acquisition, after America's Got Talent (0.7). Transplant went behind all results from the previous occupant World of Dance. ABC got a rare Tuesday win thanks to the NBA playoffs (0.8/1.0/1.0).

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 8/25/20

FINALS UPDATE: ABC Republican National Convention (0.4) adjusted up.

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 8/18/20

FINALS UPDATE: CBS Democratic National Convention (0.3) adjusted up.

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 8/11/20

FINALS UPDATE: Black-ish (R) (0.2) and Hell's Kitchen (R) (0.3) adjusted down.

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 8/4/20

FINALS UPDATE: What Would You Do? (0.4) adjusted up.

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