The Ultimate SpotVault, The Flash

The Ultimate SpotVault is a fully sortable record of every single episode in the history of a veteran series. This allows you to compare both raw numbers (total viewership and adults 18-49 rating) as well as the historical-adjusted stat A18-49+ for episodes across different seasons. This table also has the lead-in's A18-49+ for each episode, so you can see which episodes had the most and least support.

Spotted Ratings, Friday 8/3/18

FINALS UPDATE: American Ninja Warrior (R) (0.5), Masters of Illusion (R) (0.1), Masters of Illusion (R) (0.1, -0.2) and Penn and Teller: Fool Us (R) (0.2) adjusted down.

Spotted Ratings, Thursday 8/2/18

FINALS UPDATE: Big Brother (1.5) and NFL Preseason Football (2.0, +0.2) adjusted up while The Big Bang Theory (R) (0.9) and Supernatural (R) (0.1) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• Numbers to come. The NFL preseason began with the Hall of Fame Game on NBC, while Fox had the season finale of The Four.

SpotVault - The Sinner (USA) - Summer 2018 Ratings

SpotVault - Making It (NBC) - Summer 2018 Ratings

SpotVault - Burden of Truth (CW) - Summer 2018 Ratings

Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 8/1/18

FINALS UPDATE: The Goldbergs (R) (0.6) and The Goldbergs (R) (0.5) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• In its second episode on Wednesday, World of Dance (1.1) was up a tenth in both preliminary hours (1.0/1.2). That pulled it into second place at 8/7c, where MasterChef (0.9) was down a notch as its teammate 24 Hours to Hell and Back was in repeat mode (0.7). Big Brother (1.5), Reverie (0.4) and the CW dramas (0.2/0.3) all matched last week.

The Breakdown: CW Thursday in 2017-18 (Supernatural, Arrow)

It's time for a journey through the CW Thursday schedule in 2017-18...

Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 7/31/18

FINALS UPDATE: NCIS (R) (0.4) and The Outpost (0.1) adjusted down.

WHAT MATTERS:

• NBC's reality series Making It (1.1) premiered after America's Got Talent (1.9/2.2) at a bit below where World of Dance had settled in the slot. It looks pretty similar to what Hollywood Game Night has done in 2015 and 2017 with a Got Talent lead-in, and maybe about the same strength as the Maya and Mary premiere in 2016 (which had a 1.5 out of a 2.6 AGT). Not a huge positive or negative so far, and it will probably need to hold up fairly well from here.

• Elsewhere, Love Connection is eyeing its first 0.4, while ABC aired a six-episode Splitting Up Together repeat marathon (0.5/0.4/0.4/0.4/0.4/0.4) with Bachelor in Paradise and Castaways due to join the night next week.

The War of 18-49, Fresh Off the Boat

Self-Starting in Season One

Fall 2014 saw ABC take its family comedy brand to a new level, with sophomore The Goldbergs breaking out at 8:30 and rookie Black-ish succeeding at 9:30. The problem was that there was another promising family comedy in reserve, newbie Fresh Off the Boat, and not really anywhere to put it. ABC decided to give it a one-night Wednesday preview but then leave it to fend for itself on Tuesday. The Wednesday episodes showed some promise; its 2.5 at 8:30 after The Middle (2.2) was as good or better than what The Goldbergs was usually doing, and the same for the 2.3 after Modern Family (3.4) was as good or better than Black-ish.

That promise very much carried over to Tuesday, where Fresh Off the Boat opened with an above league-average 1.7/1.8 for its double-episode timeslot premiere, then went up to 1.9 the next week. It fell for several weeks in a row after that (coinciding with the arrival of Daylight Saving Time) but still pulled itself back up to a 1.5 in the last couple weeks of its run in mid-April. That was good enough for renewal.

Attempts to Upgrade the Timeslot

Since showing that spark in season one, ABC has tried on multiple occasions to put Fresh Off the Boat in better situations. It got back up to very high-1's in the early fall 2015, when it led out of the high-profile mockumentary take on The Muppets. But Muppets fell very hard very fast, and FotB pretty quickly found itself building on that lead-in with mid- and then low-1's. By the second half of the season, The Muppets was gone and Fresh Off the Boat was back to self-starting with low-1's.

In 2016-17, ABC spread out its embarrassment of Wednesday comedy riches, moving The Middle to Tuesday. Fresh Off the Boat aired at 9/8c after strong newbie American Housewife, which was probably the closest thing to a major timeslot upgrade that FotB got, and it managed to hold in the low-1's for most of the season. It became the direct Middle lead-out in season four and seemed to get a notch weaker, declining in Plus even though it missed out on the last two months of the season. (Although the last two months of the season in this case contained the enormous Roseanne revival...)

The Friday Move

In season five, Fresh Off the Boat got back to its self-starting roots, leading off a return to Friday comedy after the network bombed on the night with Once Upon a Time the previous season. It was of course diminished considerably from its Tuesday years, but helped the network rebuild some of what it lost after the cancellation of Last Man Standing. In season six, it was no longer be in the 8/7c slot, as American Housewife came over to Friday to lead off.

Adults 18-49 info by season:

Seas	Year	Slot	Avg	y2y	Lo	Hi	Results	Grade
1	Winter Spring 2015	Wednesday 8:30	1.72		1.3	2.5	detail
2	2015-16	Tuesday 8:30	1.32	-24%	0.9	1.9	detail	C+
3	2016-17	Tuesday 9:00	1.16	-12%	1.0	1.6	detail	B
4	2017-18	Tuesday 8:30	1.02	-13%	0.9	1.4	detail	C
5	2018-19	Friday 8:00	0.61	-40%	0.5	0.7	detail	B-
6	2019-20	Friday 8:30	0.44	-28%	0.3	0.5	detail	C

Historical-adjusted ratings by season:

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now20	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
1	Winter Spring 2015	102	solid	0.84		77	149	149	89
2	2015-16	90	marginal	0.74	-12%	63	131	131	84
3	2016-17	95	marginal	0.78	+5%	81	127	127	83
4	2017-18	93	marginal	0.76	-2%	79	124	124	89
5	2018-19	64	solid(Fri)	0.53	-30%	48	78	62	66
6	2019-20	54	flop	0.44	-16%	40	66	65	52
AVERAGE:		AVERAGE:	83	marginal
CAREER:		CAREER:	499	utility

The War of 18-49 chronicles the ratings history of veteran primetime series. For more, see the Index.