Renewology Swings of the Week: The Great Indoors, Code Black, New Girl, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

It's time for another edition of Renewology Swings of the Week. Which shows had the best and worst weeks in terms of Renewology odds? These numbers cover Week 12 of the 2016-17 season (December 5-11).

Spotted Ratings, Sunday 12/11/16

FINALS UPDATE: Sunday Night Football (8.7) and The OT (3.9) adjusted up while 60 Minutes (1.2) and Football Night in America (3.1) and NFL Overrun (5.4) and The Simpsons (2.3) and Son of Zorn (1.2) and The Last Man on Earth (0.9) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• ABC's dramas are done for 2016, but the network's Sunday ratings situation improved immensely with a telecast of animated movie Frozen (1.7) and a making-of special (0.9) in the 10/9c hour.

• CBS' special programming produced far less impressive results, as a pair of colorized episodes from The Dick Van Dyke Show (0.7) skewed incredibly old (with over 7 million total viewers). We also got a look at the value of NCIS: Los Angeles to the whole night, as the Dick Van Dyke reruns seemingly tanked Madam Secretary (0.7) and Elementary (0.6) later in the night.

• With a second straight national NFL overrun, Fox's The Simpsons (2.4) and Son of Zorn (1.3) were even in the 8:00 hour, but the 9:00 shows Family Guy (1.4) and The Last Man on Earth (1.0) were down. In terms of male-skewing competition, they went up against The Walking Dead's midseason finale plus...

• ...an extremely strong Sunday Night Football game, charged up by another Dallas Cowboys appearance. The high-7 prelim rating was actually SNF's biggest Sunday prelim of the season, which is a pretty impressive feat this late in the season, and it should adjust up well into the 8's after finals.

Spotted Ratings, Friday 12/9/16

WHAT MATTERS:

• The return of the CBS dramas put the eye back on top on Friday, despite small declines for MacGyver (1.0) and Hawaii Five-0 (1.2). Blue Bloods was steady at 1.2 in the 10/9c hour.

• On ABC, it was yet another 1.1 leading off from the durable Last Man Standing, but the rest of the night struggled as Dr. Ken (0.8) stayed on the low end, while Shark Tank (1.0) had a really weak night and 20/20 (0.8) fell back to its usual self.

• Fox's Hell's Kitchen (1.0) and The Exorcist (0.6) both came back after two weeks off, and both were even.

• The CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was back to a preliminary 0.2 (after hitting a prelim 0.3 last week and later adjusting down). It led out of 0.4 from The Vampire Diaries.

• And NBC had Caught on Camera (0.6) and Dateline (1.1), each down a tenth.

Spotted Ratings, Thursday 12/8/16

FINALS UPDATE: Life in Pieces (1.3) and Thursday Night Football (5.6) adjusted up while Thursday Night Football Pregame (2.2) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Opposite a much weaker Thursday Night Football, the CBS lineup had some upticks, even with The Big Bang Theory (1.7) in repeats. It looks like The Great Indoors (1.5) is going to be yet another one of those shows that looks a lot better after Big Bang repeats than it does after originals, but actually going up by 0.2 from last week seems rather crazy. Mom (1.4) had a small uptick at 9/8c, while Life in Pieces (1.2) was even continued to look a little softer in the late fall. And Pure Genius (1.0) finished out a shockingly decent week for the CBS medical dramas by growing back to its series premiere rating.

• ABC reran holiday specials Toy Story that Time Forgot (0.8) and Shrek the Halls (0.9), each down just a tenth from their Thursday telecasts a year ago. The Great American Baking Show (0.9) was then down a tenth at 9/8c, and ABC tacked on the probable series finale of Notorious (0.5) to absolutely no interest at 10/9c.

• Fox had its second annual Taraji P. Henson holiday special (0.9) in the 8:00 hour. This was way down from last year's 1.5, but Empire was a much hotter show back then, plus the special was actually run in Empire's regular timeslot in 2015. After a slightly improved lead-in, Pitch (0.8) got a much-welcome uptick for its season/series finale.

• The CW rounded out its post-crossover week with Legends of Tomorrow (0.7), which was slightly above its usual 0.6 level. Supernatural (0.6) was even.

• As for Thursday Night Football, the strong matchup between Kansas City and Oakland had a high-3's prelim. That was way down from last week's high 4, but still one of TNF's better broadcast-only prelims of the season. It should adjust into the 5's after finals/NFL Network are included.

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 12/7/16

FINALS UPDATE: Modern Family (R) (1.2) adjusted up.

WHAT MATTERS:

• NBC's annual live musical event moved to Wednesday for the first time due to the Thursday Night Football conflict. Hairspray Live! averaged a 2.3ish prelim (2.5/2.3/2.0 by hour), which was very close to Peter Pan Live! from two years ago (2.4) but a big step down from the more successful entries in the tradition: last year's The Wiz Live! (3.4) and the one that started it all, The Sound of Music Live! in 2013 (4.6).

• Though Hairspray didn't seem that huge, it was still a night of major carnage elsewhere. ABC's The Goldbergs (1.5) and Speechless (1.3) each stepped down by two more tenths from already soft results last week, and Black-ish (1.2) got absolutely crushed with the added difficulty of a repeat Modern Family (1.1) lead-in. And Designated Survivor (1.1) rounded out the night with a new low at 10/9c.

• Fox also had new lows by multiple tenths with Lethal Weapon (1.4) and Empire (2.5).

• CBS was on the downswing with Survivor (1.7) and Criminal Minds (1.3), though Code Black (1.1) was the winner of the night at least on a week-to-week basis by actually upticking.

• And on the CW, Arrow (0.7) went all the way back to normal after its crossover spike last week, while Frequency dipped to its first ever 0.2.

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 12/6/16

FINALS UPDATE: NCIS (1.8) adjusted up while Agents of SHIELD (0.7) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• On one of the last remaining days of 2016 with five networks airing all regular lineups, NBC's This Is Us (2.8) was the runaway standout once again, upticking to tie its series high. Its surrounding programs The Voice (1.9) and Chicago Fire (1.7) were both even.

• It was a rough evening for the ABC comedy lineup, as The Middle (1.4), American Housewife (1.4), Fresh Off the Boat (1.1) and The Real O'Neals (0.8) were all down, and most of them by two tenths. Agents of SHIELD clung to another 0.8 at 10/9c.

• On CBS, NCIS (1.7) gave back its uptick from the last episode, falling back to a low-end rating, but Bull (1.5) and NCIS: New Orleans (1.2) had typical results.

• Monday's Supergirl repeats meant this was the first chance to see a CW original the week after the enormous DC crossover. And there was a nice audience left behind for The Flash (1.2), which was still ahead of most of its results from earlier in the fall. No Tomorrow had 0.3 again at 9/8c.

• And Fox was steady (if still in CW territory) with Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1.0), New Girl (0.8) and Scream Queens (0.5).

Cablemetrics: Westworld, The Walking Dead, Shameless, The Royals

These numbers are current through Monday, December 5.

WHAT MATTERS:

• After a big penultimate week spike, Westworld followed it up on finale night by only staying flat week-to-week at a 1.02 demo. (However, it did set new highs in both total viewers and the 18-34 demos.) It still goes down as one of the cable elite, but a long wait for season two begins.

SpotVault - The Great Christmas Light Fight (ABC) - 2016 Ratings

The Great Christmas Light Fight

Mondays, 8/7c, ABC

SpotVault - The Great American Baking Show (ABC) - 2016 Ratings

The Great American Baking Show

Thursdays, 9/8c, ABC

SpotVault - The Royals (E!) - Winter 2016-17 Ratings