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)
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Marc Berman.
Tuesday 12/01/15 Metered Markets
Household
Rating/Share
NBC 6.8/11
CBS 3.9/ 6
ABC 2.4/ 4
Fox 1.9/ 3
CW 1.9/ 3
-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Tuesday 12/02/14:
NBC: +36, CW: -21, Fox: -30, ABC and CBS: -37 each
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-Ratings Breakdown:
Minus original competition from CBS, dominant NBC stood well above the competition on this first Tuesday in December (and first night of the month) with its combination of “The Voice” (#1: for the night – 8.1 rating/13 share in households), week three of “Chicago Med” (6.5/10) and “Chicago Fire” (#1: 5.8/10). Comparably, “Chicago Med” at 9 p.m. rose from its first (5.7/ 9 on Nov. 17) and second (4.8/ 8 on Nov. 24) telecasts by 35 percent and 14 percent, respectively. Consider this yet another success for Dick Wolf and company.
On CBS, beloved annual holiday special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” had its first airing this season and it scored a respectable 5.0/ 8 in the household overnights from 8-9 p.m. As always, you can expect definite interest in the key young adult demos. And “Rudolph” led into encore telecasts of “Limitless” (#2: 3.1/ 5), which has been renewed for the full season, and “NCIS: New Orleans” (#2: 3.5/ 6) from 9-11 p.m.
Elsewhere, there was considerable year-to-year overnight household erosion. ABC, which featured the live two-hour “Dancing With the Stars” fall finale last week, aired its regular Tuesday rotation of sitcoms “The Muppets” (#3: 2.8/ 4) and “Fresh Off the Boat” (#3t, 2.6/ 4), three-year-old “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” (#3: 2.7/ 4), and a repeat of “Shark Tank” (#3: 1.9/ 3). Former Tuesday 10 p.m. time period occupant “Wicked City” was the first new series cancellation of the season.
Fox could not compete with its soon-to-be revamped line-up of comedies “Grandfathered” (#5: 2.2/ 4) and “The Grinder” (#5: 1.8/ 3) and social media magnet “Scream Queens” (#4: 1.7/ 3), which could be the definition of the new breed of “hit.” And ‘iZombie” on The CW (#5: 1.0/ 2 at 9 p.m.) dipped by a significant 63 percent from lead-in “The Flash” (#4: 2.7/ 4).
Source: Nielsen Media Research
