Ratings News - 12th March 2013 (Full Tables Posted)

Today's Early Overnight Ratings

This table shows the early overnight ratings. These ratings are normally adjusted later in the day when all the ratings have been consolidated to take into account any local preemptions and/or overruns. You can find all the final adjusted numbers in our Ratings Database. (See the About section below for details about ratings)

Early Ratings Analysis

The analysis below is based on the early household numbers and are NOT the same as the numbers that will be posted in the above table later. (See the About section below)

For more information on the Nielsen Ratings see this Wikipedia Entry.

NOTE: The opinions expressed here are NOT those of SpoilerTV but of the Author of this Article, Marc Berman.

Monday 3/11/13 Metered Markets
A Night of “The Bachelor” Leads ABC to Victory

Household
Rating/Share
ABC 7.6/12
CBS 4.3/ 7
Fox 4.1/ 6
NBC 3.3/ 5
CW 0.7/ 1

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-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Monday 3/13/12
Fox: +37, ABC: + 9, CW: no change, CBS: -12, NBC: -58

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-Winners:
“The Bachelor” (ABC), “The Following” (Fox)

-Losers:
“The Carrie Dairies” (CW), “90210” (CW), “Deception” (NBC)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
It was a clean overnight Monday sweep for ABC which featured the season-finale of “The Bachelor” (7.4 rating/12 share from 8-10 p.m.) and perennial special, “The Bachelor: After the Finale Rose,” which topped the night at an 8.1/14 at 10 p.m. Comparably, three hours of “The Bachelor” increased by nine percent over the year-ago season-enders (7.0/11 from 8-11 p.m. on 3/12/12).

Over at Fox, recent Kevin Bacon drama entry “The Following” earned its renewal stripes with a 5.3/ 8 in the overnights at 9 p.m., which increased by 83 percent over an encore of lead-in “Bones” (#4: 2.9/ 5 at 8 p.m.).

Aside from “Rules of Engagement” (#2: 4.7/ 7 at 8:30 p.m.), everything on CBS last night was a repeat. An encore of “How I Met Your Mother” opened with a 3.7/ 6 (#2t) at 8 p.m., while repeats of “2 Broke Girls” (#3: 4.3/ 7), “Mike & Molly” (#3: 4.2/ 6) and “Hawaii Five-O” (#2: 4.3/ 7) were all in the low-4 overnight rating range from 9-11 p.m.

Elsewhere, “The Biggest Loser” on NBC (which concludes for the season next Monday) paled in comparison to competing “The Bachelor” on ABC, with a 3.8/ 6 in the overnights from 8-10 p.m. And that led into struggling freshman drama “Deception” at a distant third-place 2.5/ 4 at 10 p.m. Unfortunately, no one ever said it would be easy for the Peacock net while “The Voice” was on hiatus.

Last, of course, was The CW’s combination of on the fence The Carrie Diaries (#5: 1.0/ 2) and canceled “90210” (0.6/ 1).

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Source: Marc Berman@tvmediainsights

About the Daily Ratings

Each day (except Sunday) we post the TV Ratings for the previous night.

The first item that gets posted (normally around 2pm GMT) is the early overnight analysis based on the early household numbers (these are not the same as the Total Viewers and 18-49 Demo numbers that are posted later).

Later on (normally between 4pm-5pm GMT) we post the official early overnight Total Viewers and 18-49 Demo numbers in the table above.

Finally, later in the evening (10pm-11pm GMT) or the following day, the final adjusted ratings numbers are released, these are then posted in the Ratings Database. The Final Adjusted numbers are what we use for all our Renew/Cancellation Tables, Full Season Tables, Ratings Scorecards etc (see below)

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