Ratings News - 10th December 2013

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)

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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 12/09/13 Metered Markets
Clean Sweep for NBC

Household
Rating/Share
NBC 6.4/10
Fox 4.3/ 7
CBS 3.7/ 6
ABC 3.6/ 6
CW 0.6/ 1

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-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Monday 12/10/12:
Fox: +26, NBC: +19, ABC: + 9, CW: -33, CBS: -46

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-Winners:
“The Voice” (NBC)

-Honorable Mention:
“Mike & Molly” (CBS), “The Sing-Off” (NBC), “Sleepy Hollow” (Fox)

-Losers (excluding repeats):
“The Great Christmas Light Flight” (ABC), “One Direction The iHeartRadio Album Release Party” (CW), “Hostages” (CBS)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
Lifted by a one-hour edition of “The Voice,” NBC dominated this second Monday in December and offered ample lead-in support to the season premiere of “The Sing-Off.” “The Voice” opened with an 8.5 rating/13 share in the household overnights from 8-9 p.m., which topped the evening and led into a 5.5/ 9 for the two-hour return of “The Sing-Off” from 9-11 p.m. Comparably, that 5.5 rating was 57 percent above the “The Sing-Off’s” most recent season-opener, which was a 3.5/ 5 on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011 (and at the time faced opening season night on the competing networks). Half-hour overnight breakdown for “The Sing-Off”: 5.5/ 9 – 5.6/ 9 – 5.1/ 8 – 4.7/ 8.

CBS finished a distant second overall with combination of repeats of “How I Met Your Mother” (#4: 3.3/ 5) and “2 Broke Girls” (#3: 3.4/ 5), an original installment of “Mike & Molly” (#2: 5.2/ 8), an encore of “Mom” (#3: 3.9/ 6) and another burn-off episode of failing freshman drama “Hostages” (#3: 3.4/ 6). As a reminder, upcoming drama “Intelligence” will premiere in its regularly scheduled Monday 10 p.m. time period on January 13. A special preview will air on Tuesday, January 7 out of “NCIS” at 9 p.m. ET.

ABC, meanwhile, finished just one-tenth of a rating point behind CBS overall with its line-up of a repeat of annual animated special “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” (#3: 3.6/ 6), original special “The Great Christmas Light Flight” (#4: 3.6/ 6) and an encore of “Castle” (#2: 3.5/ 6).

Elsewhere, Fox dramas “Almost Human” and “Sleepy Hollow” scored an identical 4.3/ 7 in the overnights (but “Sleepy Hollow” will rate higher in the key young demos). And The CW populated the night with repeats of animated half-hours “Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special” (#5: 0.8/ 1) and “Merry Madagascar” (#5: 0.7/ 1) from 8-9 p.m. and original special “One Direction The iHeartRadio Album Release Party,” which bombed at a mere 0.4/ 1 (#5) from 9-10 p.m.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Source: Marc Berman@tvmediainsights

About the Daily Ratings

Each day (except Sunday) during the main TV Season we post the TV Ratings for the previous nights primetime shows for the major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, NBC). Cable Network ratings will be added to the Ratings Database.

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).

Next, if available, we will post the Top 25 Market 18-49 Ratings to give you a rough idea of the ratings to following.

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). Friday's Final Adjusted Ratings are normally available on the following Monday.

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Historical Ratings Database for nearly all major US shows going back to their first episodes.

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Ratings Scorecard

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