SpotVault - Finding Carter (MTV) - 2014-15 Ratings

Finding Carter

Tuesdays, 10/9c, MTV

SpotVault - Young & Hungry (ABC Family) - 2014-15 Ratings

Young & Hungry

Wednesdays, 8/7c, ABC Family

SpotVault - Salem (WGN America) - Summer 2015 Ratings

Salem

Sundays, 10/9c, WGN America

Spotted Ratings, Monday 4/6/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The big game adjusted all the way up a whooping 9.1, 26% above last year's game. The total viewership (28.26 million) was the biggest in 18 years and the 18-49 rating was the biggest in 13 years (since a 9.3 in 2002).

• The NCAA basketball championship game's 9:00-11:00 preliminary (7.2) was 20% above the 6.0 for the preliminary last year, and the household overnights were the highest for the game in 18 years. Last year's game ultimately adjusted up to a 7.2 in finals.

• With seemingly a much stronger game than last year, the broadcast competitors got nicked a little more than usual. On NBC, The Voice (2.9) lost at least a couple tenths on a night when it actually rose last year, but The Night Shift (1.4) seems to have rallied from last week's low. The Following (0.9) and Jane the Virgin (0.4) both had bad results, but Dancing with the Stars (2.0) continued a very steady season, losing just a tenth.

Spotted Ratings, Sunday 4/5/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• NBC's twelve-part series A.D. The Bible Continues opened with a perfectly fine but unspectacular 9.5 million viewers and 2.3 demo rating. This was below every point from History's parent series The Bible, which premiered at a 3.3 and dropped to its 2.5 low in week two. Matching those numbers was always going to be difficult, so this definitely isn't a disaster, but personally I would say it's in the bottom half of the range NBC would be content with.

• That audience didn't really take to lead-out drama American Odyssey (1.2), which didn't start off meaningfully better than fellow NBC midseason dramas The Slap (1.1) and Allegiance (1.1). It's probably got to hold roughly 100% of this going forward to have a shot, and that is always unlikely.

• ABC tried to temper the A.D. interest by airing its annual presentation of The Ten Commandments (1.4) on Easter Sunday for the first time in over a decade. It was ahead of the last couple years of Saturday ratings and probably had about the same Plus as the last Sunday airing in 2004 (3.3).

• CBS was in original regular series mode and had nothing unusual to report, other than 60 Minutes (0.9) and Madam Secretary (1.1) giving back the boosts they got from recent basketball lead-ins. Fox was in full repeat mode.

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

The Question, Sunday 4/5/15: Will A.D. Be a Hit of Biblical Proportions?

Two years ago, History miniseries The Bible was an absolute smash by basic cable standards, premiering at a 3.3 with over 13 million total viewers in March 2013. And it was seemingly pretty well-received by this huge audience, getting back to a 3.0 for the finale against The Walking Dead's finale a month later and averaging a 2.85 overall. That success led to a lot of interest in the continuation A.D. The Bible Continues, won by NBC and kicking off tonight with no competition from The Walking Dead (ended last week) or Game of Thrones (premieres next week).

Despite airing on a network with higher household coverage, it's two years later and chronicles somewhat less familiar events, so it may not be as big a deal as the first series. But tonight's premiere should cover better-known territory (the death and resurrection of Christ), and it may be able to ride the Easter holiday and tap into a large chunk of the crowd that showed up for the first series. Will A.D. be a hit of biblical proportions? That's The Question for Sunday, April 5, 2015.

Spotted Ratings, Friday 4/3/15

I'm out of town this week, but the preliminary numbers are out there. So here's your Friday 4/3/15 open thread. Will fill in my thoughts later!

Spotted Ratings, Thursday 4/2/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• FINALS UPDATE: The Big Bang Theory (3.4) got back two tenths, making for only a 1.0 point drop week-to-week. Grey's Anatomy (1.9) was also up a tenth.

• The beginning of Easter weekend produced even more depressed viewing levels than usual and a huge broadcast bloodbath. Perhaps nothing was more shocking than a whooping 1.2-point drop for The Big Bang Theory (3.2). Considering the show's last 4.4 was already after DST, that's pretty alarming. It's weird that The Odd Couple (1.9) could drop six tenths and yet still have better lead-in retention than in its last episode, but here we are. Even when The Odd Couple looked promising in weeks two and three, that basketball hiatus still loomed large as a major obstacle, and it sure seems to have taken quite a toll. CBS did hold up better in the last half of the night with Elementary (1.2) and especially Mom (2.0).

• The panic continued in Shondaland, with Scandal (2.1) dropping another two tenths to make it 1.2 points in five weeks. But unlike in previous weeks, this time it was joined by a big Grey's Anatomy drop (1.8), as that show tumbled to three tenths behind its previous low. American Crime (1.1) also gave back last week's slight rally and then some.

• Fox's Bones (1.1) and Backstrom (0.8) also dropped to new lows, probably more in line with what would be expected in this viewing-depressed environment after slightly overachieving for their spring returns last week.

• The only steady scripted shows were NBC's The Blacklist (1.6) and finale of The Slap (0.7), likely aided by an above-average Dateline (1.3) at 8/7c.

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 4/1/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• The week after ABC's huge comedy crash, the results were much more mixed. The downward movement continued for The Middle (1.8) and The Goldbergs (2.0), each down another tenth, but Modern Family (3.0) inched up and Black-ish (2.4) made a significant comeback. This was that show's best rating since before Thanksgiving (and probably its most promising result in context since at least the third week of the series).

• Another night off for CBS' crime dramas (in favor of The Dovekeepers (0.9)) meant, as usual, another good night for NBC's crime dramas. Law and Order: SVU (1.5) was up two tenths and Chicago PD (1.6) was up one. But mercy renewal hopes seem to be really fading for The Mysteries of Laura (0.9), which hit a new low.

• The night's only really weak numbers came on the CW, where Arrow (0.8) fell two tenths and Supernatural (0.6) a tenth. But to put in perspective how hot Arrow has been lately, the show was still even with the year-ago evening.

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 3/31/15

WHAT MATTERS:

• A new series premiere night was an epic disaster for Fox, as newbie Weird Loners (0.7) went completely unnoticed. Though it will surely be gone and forgotten soon, it was the huge drop from New Girl (1.0) that may have longer-term implications. This was a new series low and at least three tenths below anything it has done since the new year, though it is worth noting that this was about the same time of year that it crashed to very low 1's after Glee last season.

• Things are also getting dicier at ABC, where Fresh Off the Boat (1.3) and Agents of SHIELD (1.4) each shed yet another precious tenth to hit new lows. Only Forever (1.1) fared well by its own standards as both of its procedural competitors sat out.

• It was a reasonable third week for the March 17 premieres, as iZombie hung at 0.7 as The Flash (1.3) inched up. And Undateable (1.4) and One Big Happy (1.2) managed pretty steady showings even with The Voice (2.0) in clip show mode.

• And CBS garnered very little demo interest in miniseries The Dovekeepers (1.0), as Cote de Pablo's return to CBS couldn't even retain half of its lead-in from her old show NCIS (2.2).