These numbers are current through Thursday, February 25.
WHAT MATTERS:
- The Walking Dead held nearly all of its premiere audience in week two, dropping just 3% to a 6.58. The year-to-year trend improved a lot since it dropped big against the Oscars in week two of last season, but that effect will be cancelled out next week when last night's rating against Oscar is added.
WHAT MATTERS:
- FINALS UPDATE: The Academy Awards ended up with a 10.5 demo, down 5% from last year. The red carpet segments (2.6/4.0/5.9) were in the same general vicinity year-to-year-wise.
- AMC's The Walking Dead dropped to a 6.08 against the Oscars.
- Sunday was all about the Academy Awards, and the show appears to have slowed its rate of decline from last season but not erased it entirely. In the prelims, the show averaged an 11.0 at 8:30, a 9.6 in the 9:00 hour and a 9.1 in the 10:00 hour. That adds up to roughly a 9.7, down 6% from last year's 10.3 prelim. It will adjust up after accounting for West Coast viewing. (Last year went from a 10.3 prelim to an 11.0 final.)
- The other three networks were in newsmagazine/repeat/movie mode. All three networks averaged about a 0.7 for the night; CBS aired 60 Minutes (0.8/0.8) and movie Last Vegas (0.5/0.6), NBC had Dateline (0.9/1.0) and movie Ted (0.6) and Fox had comedy repeats (0.7/0.7/0.9/0.5/0.7/0.5).
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WHAT MATTERS:
- FINALS UPDATE: The Originals (0.5) adjusted up, tying its Thursday season high on a Friday!
- ABC's problems extended to one of its most reliable nights, as Last Man Standing dipped to 1.1 for the first time since the season premiere, while Shark Tank (1.2) crashed to its lowest Friday original of the season. Dr. Ken (1.0) and 20/20 (0.7) also tied their season lows, with 20/20 down almost half from last week!
- That meant CBS eked out a win on this Friday, even with a third straight drop from Blue Bloods (1.2). The Amazing Race (1.1) and Hawaii Five-0 (1.1) were flat.
- ABC's weakness may have come in part because NBC had an above-average Dateline (1.2), expanded to two hours (1.1/1.3) and preempting Grimm. However, Caught on Camera (0.7) inched down in the lead-off spot.
- On Fox, Sleepy Hollow (0.8) rebounded from last week's drop, but Second Chance (0.5) gave back last week's uptick.
- And the CW's genre dramas The Vampire Diaries (0.5) and The Originals (0.4) were (preliminarily) back at their respective Friday high points.
WHAT MATTERS:
- FINALS UPDATE: Indeed, The Big Bang Theory adjusted up to its sixth straight 3.8. Life in Pieces went down to 2.1.
- Well, TGIT didn't take another big hit in its third week of the spring, but Grey's Anatomy (2.1) and Scandal (1.7) each lost another tenth from last week's finals. How to Get Away with Murder steadied at 1.5.
- On CBS, there was no real heat for the 200th episode of The Big Bang Theory (3.7), but it always has a chance to adjust up (which would make its sixth consecutive 3.8). The rest of the CBS night was steady to slightly up with Life in Pieces (2.2), Mom (1.8), 2 Broke Girls (1.7) and Elementary (1.1). It was a nice recovery for 2 Broke after last week's slow return to the night.
- NBC's You, Me and the Apocalypse survived into a fifth week and produced another paltry 0.6, while The Blacklist (1.3) stayed flat at last week's low and Shades of Blue (1.0) inched down to a new one.
- The CW was on the uptick with Legends of Tomorrow (0.9) and a preliminary 0.6 for The 100. This is a relatively strong bounce for The 100 since last week's 0.5 was actually much closer to 0.4 than 0.6.
- And American Idol (2.0/2.1), now down to only Thursday airings, won another broadcast Thursday.
WHAT MATTERS:
- FINALS UPDATE: Survivor (1.9) adjusted down.
- ABC saw some one-tenth growth late in the evening with Modern Family (2.5) and American Crime (0.9) sandwiching a controversial episode of Black-ish (1.9). However, the 8:00 hour sees The Goldbergs (1.9) hoping for an adjustment to avoid a new season low. The Middle (1.9) was flat in the lead-off spot.
- The return of Criminal Minds (1.8) was generally a good thing for CBS, as Survivor (2.0) inched up from the premiere and Code Black (1.2) got back to normal for its season or series finale. It was not an awful run for Code, but it never really seemed to follow through on its end-of-2015 momentum.
- Minds also seemingly nicked NBC's Law and Order: SVU (1.5), which had its worst rating since the new year. The Mysteries of Laura (1.0) and Chicago PD (1.6) were even.
- On Fox, American Idol (2.1) ticked up, refusing to drop out of the twos, as did Hell's Kitchen (1.3).
- And Arrow (1.0) finally got a tenth back after a string of 0.9's, while Supernatural (0.7) lost one.
WHAT MATTERS:
- FINALS UPDATE: No adjustments, even on the CW! (EDIT: the two-hour Agent Carter average actually did adjust up, from 0.7 to 0.8.)
- CBS dominated the season's final sans-The Voice Tuesday, with NCIS (2.4) up a tenth at 8/7c. However, NCIS: New Orleans (1.8) gave last week's spike, and Limitless (1.1) just keeps getting shakier and shakier at 10/9c.
- NBC had some rebounds, with Hollywood Game Night (1.1) ending its Tuesday run on a pretty average note and Chicago Med (1.5) inching up from last week's low. Chicago Fire (1.6) stayed on the low end.
- ABC's Fresh Off the Boat (1.2) inched back down, then the network continued to burn through struggling The Muppets (0.8) and two more Agent Carter hours (0.8/0.7).
- Fox stayed frozen at last week's lows with New Girl (1.2), Grandfathered (0.8), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (0.9) and The Grinder (0.6).
- And the CW's The Flash (1.4) and iZombie (0.6) look like they could be close to adjusting to last week's respective 1.5/0.5 after finals.
WHAT MATTERS:
- FINALS UPDATE: The Bachelor (2.5) adjusted up. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend went back down to 0.3 after a couple weeks with 0.4 finals.
- For the shows that faced the Grammys last week, it was a big rebound Monday, and most of those shows were pretty much back to their levels from two weeks ago. That included The X-Files (2.4), whose season finale tied for the lead at 8/7c and seems to have stayed solidly within "back the truck up to get it back" territory.
- A notable exception to the bounce-back rule was X-Files lead-out Lucifer. After holding up well against the Grammys, it actually dipped again this week to a new low 1.5, and a tougher lead-in situation looms with the return of Gotham next week.
- Among the shows that bounced all the way back post-Grammy were NBC's finales of Superstore (1.4), Telenovela (0.9) and The Biggest Loser (1.1/1.2), with Superstore making one last case for a renewal that curiously still hasn't come yet.
- Coming off of last week's preemption, CBS actually took the biggest hit by far. Supergirl (1.5) was on the low end, and Scorpion (1.7) and NCIS: Los Angeles (1.3) each had easily their worst showings since the new year.
- Also getting back to normal were ABC's The Bachelor (2.4/2.5) and Castle (1.1). CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (0.4) and Jane the Virgin (0.3) stayed flat after sitting out against the awards last week.
WHAT MATTERS:
- FINALS UPDATE: Apparently Shark Tank was actually an original, which makes it look a lot worse... and it adjusted down to a new season low 1.1 in finals. The Walking Dead (6.58) was just barely down in week two, beating the year-ago week two that got slammed by SNL40.
- In a duel of two-hour specials, neither was anywhere close to an SNL40-esque breakout but both were acceptable enough filler. ABC's celebration of the Disneyland 60th Anniversary (1.8) beat out NBC's tribute to legendary Must See TV director James Burrows (1.3).
- The Disneyland special was surrounded by a season high America's Funniest Home Videos (1.3) and a solid repeat of Shark Tank (1.2), while NBC's All-Star Tribute had two hours of Dateline (1.0/1.3) leading in.
- Fox saw some minor rallies from last week's disheartening comedy results, as most of Bob's Burgers (1.1), The Simpsons (1.4), Cooper Barrett's Guide (0.8), Family Guy (1.3) and Bordertown (0.7) were by up a tenth from last week.
- And the CBS dramas Madam Secretary (1.2), The Good Wife (1.0) and CSI: Cyber (0.9) were even across the board.
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